Intermediate Java Training

Java Training Overview

Appextech's Intermediate Java™ Programming training course teaches Java developers advanced object-oriented concepts, collections, logging, file I/O, unit testing, and a wide variety of other valuable Java skills.

Java Training Objectives

1. Understand Java as a purely object-oriented language, and implement software as systems of classes.
2. Implement and use inheritance and polymorphism, including interfaces and abstract classes.
3. Design appropriate exception handling into Java methods.
4. Use the standard logging API to write diagnostic information at runtime.
5. Understand the structure of streams in Java, and learn how to use streams to manage file I/O.
6. Learn how to use Java Serialization to internalize and externalize potentially complex graphs of objects.

Java Training Outline

1. Review of Java Fundamentals
1. The Java Architecture
2. Forms for Java Software
3. Three Platforms
4. The Java Language
5. Numeric Types
6. Characters and Booleans
7. Enumerations
8. Object References
9. Strings and Arrays
10. Conditional Constructs
11. Looping Constructs
12. Varargs
2. Object-Oriented Software
1. Complex Systems
2. Abstraction
3. Classes and Objects
4. Responsibilities and Collaborators
5. UML
6. Relationships
7. Visibility
3. Classes and Objects
1. Java Classes
2. Constructors and Garbage Collection
3. Naming Conventions and JavaBeans
4. Relationships Between Classes
5. Using this
6. Visibility
7. Packages and Imports
8. Overloading Methods and Constructors
9. JARs
4. Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java
1. UML Specialization
2. Extending Classes
3. Using Derived Classes
4. Type Identification
5. Compile-Time and Run-Time Type
6. Polymorphism
7. Overriding Methods
8. The @Override Annotation
9. Superclass Reference
5. Using Classes Effectively
1. Class Loading
2. Static Members
3. Statics and Non-Statics
4. Static Initializers
5. Static Imports
6. Prohibiting Inheritance
7. Costs of Object Creation
8. Strings and StringBuffers
9. Controlling Object Creation
10. Understanding Enumerated Types
11. Stateful and Behavioral Enumerations
6. Interfaces and Abstract Classes
1. Separating Interface and Implementation
2. UML Interfaces and Realization
3. Defining Interfaces
4. Implementing and Extending Interfaces
5. Abstract Classes
7. Collections
1. Dynamic Collections vs. Arrays
2. UML Parameterized Type
3. Generics
4. Using Generics
5. The Collections API
6. The Collection<E> and List<E> Interfaces
7. The ArrayList<E> and LinkedList<E> Classes
8. Looping Over Collections: Iterable<E>
9. Collecting Primitive Values: Auto-Boxing
10. Using Wildcards with Generic Types
11. Iterators and the Iterator<E> Interface
12. Maps and the Map<K,V> Interface
13. Sorted Collections
14. The SortedSet<E> and SortedMap<K,V> Interfaces
15. The Collections Class Utility
16. Algorithms
17. Conversion Utilities
8. Exception Handling and Logging
1. Reporting and Trapping Errors
2. Exception Handling
3. Throwing Exceptions
4. Declaring Exceptions per Method
5. Catching Exceptions
6. The finally Block
7. Catch-and-Release
8. Chaining Exceptions
9. The J2SE Logging API
10. Severity Levels
11. Log Hierarchies
9. Inner Classes
1. Passing Behavior
2. Inner Classes in GUI Programming
3. Named Inner Classes
4. Outer Object Reference
5. Static Inner Classes
6. Anonymous Inner Classes
10. The Java Streams Model
1. Delegation-Based Stream Model
2. InputStream and OutputStream
3. Media-Based Streams
4. Filtering Streams
5. Readers and Writers
11. Working with Files
1. File Class
2. Modeling Files and Directories
3. File Streams
4. Random-Access Files
12. Advanced Stream Techniques
1. Buffering
2. Data Streams
3. Push-Back Parsing
4. Byte-Array Streams and String Readers and Writers
13. Java Serialization
1. The Challenge of Object Serialization
2. Serialization API
3. Serializable Interface
4. ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
5. The Serialization Engine
6. Transient Fields
7. readObject and writeObject
8. Externalizable Interface
14. Automated Unit Testing with JUnit
1. Automated Testing
2. JUnit and Related Tools
3. The @Test Annotation
4. The Assert Class Utility
5. Test Runners
6. Lifecycle Methods