JAVA SE 8.0 (Core Java) Course Details

Java Language Fundamentals

• Editions of Java
• Features of Java
• Hello World program in Java
• Using JAVAC to compile and run Java program
• Data types and control structures
• Using printf() method and Scanner class
• Working with Arrays
• Varying Arguments
• Command line arguments

Object Oriented Programming

• What is OOP - encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism
• How to create a class and instantiate objects
• Using Constructors
• Method overloading and constructor overloading
• Object reference and this reference
• Static variables and static methods
• Final variables
• Inheritance
• Using super keyword
• Dynamic Method Dispatch - late binding
• Abstract method and class
• Final variable, method and class

Using Java Library

• String, StringBuffer classes
• Math class
• How Java deals with Objects and Primitive types
• Object class - why to override toString(), equals() and hashCode() methods
• Wrapper classes - Autoboxing and autounboxing
• Date, Calendar, DateFormat classes
• LocalDate, LocalTime, DateTimeFormatter, ChronoUnit etc.

Interfaces

• What is an interface
• Implementing an interface
• Default Methods and Static methods in Interface
• Inheritance and interfaces

Packages

• What is a package and how to create it
• Using package, import statement and CLASSPATH variable
• Access modifiers
• Static imports
• Enumeration

Exception Handling

• How to handle exceptions in Java - try and catch blocks
• Understanding exception classes hierarchy
• The finally block
• Creating user-defined exceptions
• Using throws and throw keywords
• Multi-catch and precise rethrow
• How to use assertions

Multithreading

• What is Multithreading?
• Creating new thread using subclass of Thread class
• Creating new thread using Runnable interface
• Methods of Thread class
• Life cycle of a thread
• Synchronization of threads - using synchronized methods and block
• Using Threadpool

IO Streams

• What is an IO stream
• Character and byte streams
• FileReader and FileWriter
• Filtered Streams
• BufferedReader to read one complete line
• Using InputStreamReader to convert byte stream to char stream
• Reading data from keyboard (System.in)
• Using RandomAccessFile class
• Using PrintWriter class
• Using File class
• NIO of Java 7.0 - Files, Path and Paths classes
• Serialization

Network Programming

• Creating Server Socket
• Creating Client Socket and connecting to server
• InetAddress class
• Using URL class

Collections Framework and Regular Expressions

• Collection, List, Set and SortedSet interfaces
• How to use Generics
• ArrayList, Vector, HashSet, TreeSet classes
• How to use Comparator interface
• Queue interface and LinkedList class
• Map and SortedMap interfaces
• HashMap and TreeMap classes
• New methods added in Java 8
• Using Collections class
• What is Regular Expression
• Using Pattern and Matcher classes

Lambda Expressions and Streams

• What is a lambda expression
• Method reference
• Using built-in functional interfaces
• What is a stream
• How to get a stream from Collection, File, Array etc.
• Using methods of Stream
• Terminal and non-terminal streams

Swing Applications

• How to create Frame-based swing applications
• Components and layout managers
• Event Handling - Delegation event model
• Handling events using adapter class and inner classes
• Window, Mouse and Keyboard events
• Swing components - JRadioButton, JList etc.
• Using Menu, Toolbar and Standard Dialog boxes
• Using Timer, JScrollPane
• Using JFileChooser, JTable, JTree etc.