A Programmer[ap]s Guide to Java Certification
| Chapter 1 1.1 Basic Elements of a Class Definition 1.2 Static Members in Class Definition 1.3 Defining a Subclass 1.4 An Application Chapter 2 2.1 Default Values for Fields 2.2 Flagging Uninitialized Local Variables of Primitive Data Types 2.3 Flagging Uninitialized Local Reference Variables Chapter 3 3.1 Numeric Promotion in Arithmetic Expressions 3.2 Bitwise Operations 3.3 Passing Primitive Values 3.4 Passing Object Reference Values 3.5 Passing Arrays 3.6 Array Elements as Primitive Data Values 3.7 Array Elements as Object Reference Values 3.8 Passing Program Arguments Chapter 4 4.1 Using Arrays 4.2 Using Anonymous Arrays 4.3 Using Multidimensional Arrays 4.4 Using this Reference 4.5 Namespaces 4.6 Class Scope 4.7 Accessibility Modifiers for Classes and Interfaces 4.8 Abstract Classes 4.9 Public Accessibility of Members 4.10 Accessing Static Members 4.11 Accessing Final Members 4.12 Synchronized Methods Chapter 5 5.1 Fall Through in switch Statement 5.2 Using break in switch Statement 5.3 Nested switch Statement 5.4 break Statement 5.5 Labeled break Statement 5.6 continue Statement 5.7 Labeled continue Statement 5.8 The return Statement 5.9 Method Execution 5.10 try-catch Construct 5.11 Exception Propagation 5.12 try-catch-finally Construct 5.13 try-finally Construct 5.14 finally Block and the return Statement> 5.15 Throwing Exceptions 5.16 throws Clause 5.17 Assertions Chapter 6 6.1 Extending Classes: Inheritance and Accessibility 6.2 Illustrating Inheritance 6.3 Overriding, Overloading, and Hiding 6.4 Overloaded Method Resolution 6.5 Using super Keyword 6.6 Constructor Overloading 6.7 this() Constructor Call 6.8 super() Constructor Call 6.9 Interfaces 6.10 Variables in Interfaces 6.11 Assigning and Passing Reference Values 6.12 instanceof and Cast Operator 6.13 Using instanceof Operator 6.14 Polymorphism and Dynamic Method Lookup 6.15 Implementing Data Structures by Inheritance and Aggregation Chapter 7 7.1 Overview of Nested Classes and Interfaces 7.2 Static Member Classes and Interfaces 7.3 Importing Member Classes 7.4 Accessing Members in Enclosing Context 7.5 Defining Non-static Member Classes 7.6 Special Form of this and new Constructs in Non-static Member Classes 7.7 Inheritance Hierarchy and Enclosing Context 7.8 Extending Inner Classes 7.9 Access in Enclosing Context 7.10 Instantiating Local Classes 7.11 Defining Anonymous Classes 7.12 Accessing Declarations in Enclosing Context Chapter 8 8.1 Garbage Collection Eligibility 8.2 Using Finalizers 8.3 Invoking Garbage Collection 8.4 Initializer Expression Order and Method Calls 8.5 Exceptions in Initializer Expressions 8.6 Static Initializers and Forward References 8.7 Static Initializer Blocks and Exceptions 8.8 Instance Initializers and Forward References 8.9 Instance Initializer Block in Anonymous Class 8.10 Exception Handling in Instance Initializer Blocks 8.11 Object State Construction 8.12 Initialization under Object State Construction Chapter 9 9.1 Implementing the Runnable Interface 9.2 Extending the Thread Class 9.3 Mutual Exclusion 9.4 Waiting and Notifying 9.5 Joining of Threads 9.6 Thread Termination 9.7 Deadlock Chapter 10 10.1 Methods in the Object class 10.2 String Representation of Integers 10.3 String Construction and Equality 10.4 Reading Characters from a String Chapter 11 11.1 Using an Iterator 11.2 Using Sets 11.3 Using Lists 11.4 Using Maps 11.5 Natural Order and Total Order 11.6 Using SortedMaps 11.7 A Simple Class for Version Number 11.8 Implications of Not Overriding the equals() Method 11.9 Implementing the equals() Method 11.10 Implications of Overriding the equals() Method 11.11 Implementing the hashCode() Method 11.12 Implications of Overriding the hashCode() Method 11.13 Implementing the compareTo() Method of the Comparable Interface 11.14 Implications of Implementing the compareTo() Method |