Java 4: Java’s type system and collection classes

Description

This book is the fourth in a series of books on software development in Java. This book has the primary focus on Java and numerous of details regarding Java as an object-oriented programming language. The book presents techniques that can help to ensure the development of robust and maintenance-friendly programs, but also techniques needed to know in order to develop robust programs in a modern programming language.

Content

1. Introduction
2. Wrapper classes
   1. Exercise 1
3. Strings
   1. StringBuilder
   2. StringTokenizer
   3. Problem 1
   4. Regular expressions
   5. Exercise 2
4. Inner classes
   1. Iterators
   2. Exercise 3
   3. Exercise 4
   4. Example: ZipCodes
5. Enumerations
   1. Exercise 5
   2. Problem 2
6. Exception handling
   1. Checked exceptions
   2. Unchecked exceptions
   3. Exercise 6
7. Generic types
   1. Exercise 7
   2. More on parameters
   3. Exercise 8
   4. Raw classes
   5. Generic methods
   6. Exercise 9
   7. Problem 3
   8. Bound parameter types
   9. Exercise 10
   10. Generic types and inheritance
8. Lambda expressions
   1. Anonymous classes
   2. Methods as parameters
   3. Examples of lambda expressions
   4. Java functional interfaces
   5. Event handlers
9. Collection classes
   1. Overview of the collection classes
   2. ArrayList
   3. LinkedList
   4. Exercise 10
   5. Problem 3
   6. HashSet
   7. TreeSet
   8. Exercise 11
   9. HashMap and TreeMap
   10. PriorityQueue
   11. Exercise 12
   12. The algorithms
   13. Exercise 12
10. Annotation
11. Packages
12. Final example
    1. The task
    2. Analysis
    3. Design
    4. Programming
    5. Test
    6. The last step