RI-TECH

Welcome

• Course Overview
•  Review of Java Fundamentals
• The Java Environment
• Data Types
• The String Class
• The StringBuffer Class
• Arrays
• Passing Data Types to a Method
• Constructors & Initialization
• Inheritance
• Abstract Classes
• Interfaces
• Static Data / Methods / Blocks
• Wrapper Classes
• I/O

Packaging & Distributing a Java Application

• Packages
• Managing Source & Class Files
• The javadoc Utility
• Documenting Classes & Interfaces
• Documenting Fields
•  Documenting Constructors & Methods
•  Bundling & Using Jar-Packaged Resources

Miscellaneous Enhancements

•  Enhanced for Loop
• Autoboxing & Unboxing
•  Static Imports
• varArgs
•  Typesafe Enums
• Formatted Strings
• Formatted Integers / Floats / Strings / Dates

Assertions

• Introduction to Assertion Syntax
• Compiling with Assertions
• Enabling & Disabling Assertions
• Assertion Usage

Regular Expressions

• Introduction to Regular Expressions
• String Literals
• Character Classes
•  Quantifiers
• Capturing Groups & Backreferences
• Boundary Matchers
• Pattern & Matcher

The Java Collection Classes

• Introduction to Java Collection Classes
•  The Arrays Class
• Searching & Sorting Arrays (Primitives & Objects)
• The Comparable & Comparator Interfaces
• Lists & Sets
• Iterators
• Maps
• The Collections Class
• Rules of Thumb

Generics

• Introduction to Generics
• Defining Simple Generics
•  Generics & Subtyping
•  Wildcards
• Bounded Wildcards
• Generic Methods

Advanced I/O

• Introduction to Advanced I/O
• Basic File I/O Example
•  Buffered I/O
• The Console Class
• Object Serialization
• Compressed Files
• Writing Your Own I/O Classes
• Property Files
• The Preferences Class

Enhanced I/O

• Introduction to Enhanced I/O
• Channels
• Buffers Typed
• Buffers Direct

Networking

• Networking Fundamentals
• The Client/Server Model
• InetAddress
• URLs
• Sockets
• A Time-of-Day Client
• Writing Servers

Threads & Concurrency

• Review of Fundamentals
• Creating Threads by Extending Thread
• Creating Threads by Implementing Runnable
• Advantages of Using Threads
• Daemon Threads
• Thread States
• Synchronization

Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• Introduction to RMI
• RMI Architecture
• Writing the Server
• RMI Troubleshooting Tips
• Writing the Client
• Remote Method Arguments & Return Values
• Dynamic Loading of Stub Classes
• Running the Remote RMI Client Example

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

• Relational Databases
• Structured Query Language
• A Sample Program
• Transactions

Advance Windowing Toolkit (AWT)

• AWT Basics
• AWT Controls
• GUI Design using AWT