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Tables of Contents for The Java Programming Language
Chapter/Section Title
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1 A Quick Tour of Java
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28
1.1 Getting Started
1
2
1.2 Variables
3
2
1.3 Comments in Code
5
1
1.4 Named Constants
5
2
1.4.1 Unicode Characters
6
1
1.5 Flow of Control
7
2
1.6 Classes and Objects
9
3
1.6.1 Creating Objects
10
1
1.6.2 Static or Class Fields
11
1
1.6.3 The Garbage Collector
11
1
1.7 Methods and Parameters
12
2
1.7.1 Invoking a Method
12
1
1.7.2 The this Reference
13
1
1.7.3 Static or Class Methods
14
1
1.8 Arrays
14
2
1.9 String Objects
16
2
1.10 Extending a Class
18
2
1.10.1 Invoking Methods from the Superclass
19
1
1.10.2 The Object Class
20
1
1.11 Interfaces
20
2
1.12 Exceptions
22
2
1.13 Packages
24
2
1.14 The Java Platform
26
1
1.15 Other Topics Briefly Noted
27
2
2 Classes and Objects
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30
2.1 A Simple Class
30
1
2.2 Fields
30
1
2.3 Access Control and Inheritance
31
1
2.4 Creating Objects
32
1
2.5 Constructors
33
3
2.6 Methods
36
6
2.6.1 Parameter Values
38
3
2.6.2 Using Methods to Control Access
41
1
2.7 this
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2
2.8 Overloading Methods
44
1
2.9 Static Members
44
2
2.10 Initialization Blocks
46
1
2.11 Garbage Collection and finalize
47
3
2.11.1 finalize
48
2
2.11.2 Resurrecting Objects during finalize
50
1
2.12 Nested Classes and Interfaces
50
5
2.12.1 Local Inner Classes
53
2
2.13 main
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1
2.14 The toString Method
56
1
2.15 Native Methods
57
2
3 Extending Classes
59
32
3.1 An Extended Class
59
4
3.2 What protected Really Means
63
1
3.3 Constructors in Extended Classes
64
3
3.3.1 Constructor Order Dependencies
65
2
3.4 Overriding Methods, Hiding Fields, and Nested Classes
67
4
3.4.1 The super Keyword
70
1
3.5 Marking Methods and Classes final
71
2
3.6 The Object Class
73
1
3.7 Anonymous Classes
74
1
3.8 Abstract Classes and Methods
75
2
3.9 Cloning Objects
77
5
3.10 Extending Classes: How and When
82
1
3.11 Designing a Class to Be Extended
83
8
4 Interfaces
91
12
4.1 An Example Interface
91
3
4.2 Single Inheritance versus Multiple Inheritance
94
1
4.3 Extending Interfaces
95
2
4.3.1 Name Conflicts
96
1
4.4 Implementing Interfaces
97
2
4.5 Using an Implementation
99
1
4.6 Marker Interfaces
100
1
4.7 When to Use Interfaces
101
2
5 Tokens, Operators, and Expressions
103
36
5.1 Character Set
103
1
5.2 Comments
104
1
5.3 Tokens
105
1
5.4 Identifiers
106
1
5.4.1 Java Keywords
106
1
5.5 Primitive Types
107
1
5.6 Literals
107
3
5.6.1 Object References
108
1
5.6.2 Boolean
108
1
5.6.3 Integers
108
1
5.6.4 Floating-Point Numbers
108
1
5.6.5 Characters
109
1
5.6.6 Strings
109
1
5.6.7 Class Literals
110
1
5.7 Declarations of Variables
110
4
5.7.1 Using final for Variables
111
1
5.7.2 The Meanings of Names
112
2
5.8 Array Variables
114
3
5.8.1 Arrays of Arrays
116
1
5.9 Initial Values
117
1
5.9.1 Array Initializers
117
1
5.10 Operator Precedence and Associativity
118
2
5.11 Order of Evaluation
120
1
5.12 Expression Type
121
1
5.13 Type Conversions
121
4
5.13.1 Implicit Conversion
121
1
5.13.2 Explicit Casts and instanceof
122
3
5.13.3 String Conversions
125
1
5.14 Member Access
125
3
5.15 Arithmetic Operators
128
3
5.15.1 Integer Arithmetic
128
1
5.15.2 Floating-Point Arithmetic
128
2
5.15.3 Java Floating-Point Arithmetic and IEEE-754
130
1
5.15.4 String Concatenation
130
1
5.16 Increment and Decrement Operators
131
1
5.17 Relational, Equality, and Logical Operators
132
2
5.18 Bitwise Operators
134
1
5.19 The Conditional Operator ?:
135
1
5.20 Assignment Operators
136
1
5.21 Package Names
136
3
6 Control Flow
139
12
6.1 Statements and Blocks
139
1
6.2 if-else
140
2
6.3 switch
142
2
6.4 while and do-while
144
1
6.5 for
145
1
6.6 Labels
146
1
6.7 break
147
1
6.8 continue
148
1
6.9 return
149
1
6.10 What, No goto?
149
2
7 Exceptions
151
10
7.1 Creating Exception Types
152
1
7.2 throw
153
1
7.3 The throws Clause
153
2
7.4 try, catch, and finally
155
4
7.4.1 finally
157
2
7.5 When to Use Exceptions
159
2
8 Strings
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18
8.1 Basic String Operations
161
2
8.2 String Comparisons
163
3
8.3 Utility Methods
166
1
8.4 Making Related Strings
167
2
8.5 String Conversions
169
1
8.6 Strings and char Arrays
170
1
8.7 Strings and byte Arrays
171
1
8.8 The StringBuffer Class
172
7
8.8.1 Modifying the Buffer
173
2
8.8.2 Getting Data Out
175
1
8.8.3 Capacity Management
176
3
9 Threads
179
30
9.1 Creating Threads
181
2
9.2 Synchronization
183
5
9.2.1 Synchronized Methods
183
2
9.2.2 Synchronized Statements
185
3
9.3 wait, notiFyAll, and notify
188
2
9.4 Details of wait and notify
190
1
9.5 Thread Scheduling
191
3
9.6 Deadlocks
194
1
9.7 Ending Thread Execution
195
5
9.7.1 The End of a Thread's Life
195
2
9.7.2 Waiting for a Thread to Complete
197
1
9.7.3 Don't stop
198
1
9.7.4 Suspending Threads
199
1
9.8 Ending Application Execution
200
1
9.9 Using Runnable
201
1
9.10 volatile
202
1
9.11 Thread Security and ThreadGroup
203
4
9.12 Debugging Threads
207
2
10 Packages
209
6
10.1 Package Naming
210
1
10.2 Package Access
211
1
10.3 Package Contents
212
3
11 Documentation Comments
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10
11.1 Paragraphs
216
3
11.1.1 @see
216
1
11.1.2 @param
217
1
11.1.3 @return
217
1
11.1.4 @exception
217
1
11.1.5 @deprecated
217
1
11.1.6 @author
218
1
11.1.7 @version
218
1
11.1.8 @since
219
1
11.2 An Example
219
4
11.3 Notes on Usage
223
2
12 The I/O Package
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12.1 Byte Streams
226
1
12.2 InputStream
227
2
12.3 OutputStream
229
2
12.4 Character Streams
231
2
12.4.1 Character Streams and the Standard Streams
231
2
12.5 Reader
233
2
12.6 Writer
235
1
12.7 Summary of I/O Types
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1
12.8 InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter
237
1
12.9 Filter Streams
238
2
12.10 Print Streams
240
1
12.11 Buffered Streams
240
2
12.12 ByteArray Byte Streams
242
1
12.13 CharArray Character Streams
242
2
12.14 String Character Streams
244
1
12.15 File Streams and FileDescriptor
245
1
12.16 Piped Streams
246
1
12.17 SequenceInputStream
247
1
12.18 LineNumberReader
248
1
12.19 Pushback Streams
249
1
12.20 StreamTokenizer
250
5
12.21 Data Byte Streams
255
2
12.22 The Data Stream Classes
257
1
12.23 RandomAccessFile
258
1
12.24 The Object Byte Streams
259
8
12.24.1 Making Your Classes Serializable
260
2
12.24.2 Serialization and Deserialization Order
262
1
12.24.3 Customized Serialization and Externalizable
263
2
12.24.4 Object Versioning
265
2
12.24.5 The Externalizable Interface
267
1
12.25 The File Class
267
4
12.25.1 FilenameFilter
270
1
12.26 The IOException Classes
271
2
13 Standard Utilities
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22
13.1 BitSet
274
2
13.2 Enumeration
276
1
13.3 Implementing an Enumeration Interface
276
2
13.4 Vector
278
4
13.5 Stack
282
1
13.6 Dictionary
283
1
13.7 Hashtable
284
2
13.8 Properties
286
2
13.9 Observer/Observable
288
3
13.10 Random
291
1
13.11 StringTokenizer
292
3
14 Programming with Types
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26
14.1 Wrapper Classes: An Overview
296
1
14.2 Void
297
1
14.3 Boolean
297
1
14.4 Character
297
3
14.5 Number
300
1
14.6 The Integer Wrapper Classes
301
1
14.7 The Floating-Point Wrapper Classes
302
1
14.8 Reflection
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12
14.8.1 Class
304
2
14.8.2 Examining Classes
306
3
14.8.3 Field
309
1
14.8.4 Method
310
2
14.8.5 Creating New Objects and Constructor
312
1
14.8.6 Arrays
313
2
14.9 Loading Classes
315
6
14.9.1 Loading Related Resources
319
2
15 System Programming
321
14
15.1 Standard I/O Streams
321
1
15.2 Memory Management
322
1
15.3 System Properties
323
2
15.4 Creating Processes
325
4
15.5 Runtime
329
2
15.6 Miscellaneous
331
1
15.7 Security
331
1
15.8 Math
332
3
16 Internationalization and Localization
335
18
16.1 Locale
336
2
16.2 Resource Bundles
338
5
16.2.1 ListResourceBundle
340
2
16.2.2 PropertyResourceBundle
342
1
16.2.3 Subclassing ResourceBundle
343
1
16.3 Time, Dates, and Calendars
343
7
16.3.1 Calendars
344
4
16.3.2 Time Zones
348
1
16.3.3 GregorianCalendar and SimpleTimeZone
348
2
16.4 Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times
350
3
17 Standard Packages
353
20
17.1 java.text--Internationalization and Localization for Text
354
5
17.1.1 Collation
354
1
17.1.2 Formatting and Parsing
355
3
17.1.3 Text Boundaries
358
1
17.2 java.awt--The Abstract Window Toolkit
359
2
17.3 java.applet--Applets
361
1
17.4 java.rmi--Remote Method Invocation
362
5
17.5 java.beans--Java Components
367
1
17.6 java.net--The Network
367
3
17.7 java.math--Mathematics
370
2
17.8 java.sql--Relational Database Access
372
1
17.9 java.security--Security Tools
372
1
Appendix A: Runtime Exceptions
373
4
A.1 RuntimeException Classes
374
1
A.2 Error Classes
375
2
Appendix B: Useful Tables
377
4
Table 1: Keywords
377
1
Table 2: Operator Precedence
378
1
Table 3: Unicode Digits
378
1
Table 4: Unicode Letters and Digits
379
1
Table 5: Special Characters Using \
380
1
Table 6: Documentation Comment Tags
380
1
Further Reading
381
4
Index
385