Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• • Administration and Course Materials
• • Course Structure and Agenda
• • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: GENERICS

• • Generic types
• • Generic methods
• • Bounded type parameters
• • Generics and inheritance
• • Type inference
• • Wildcards
• • Type erasure
• • Restrictions

Session 2: COLLECTIONS

• • The Collection interface hierarchy
• • Iterable and Iterator
• • Collection operations and traversal
• • The Collections class
• • Collection types (characteristics and implementations) incl. List,Set and Queue
• • The Map interface hierarchy
• • Map operations and traversal
• • Map types (characteristics and implementations)

Session 3: hashCode,equals & compareTo/compare

• • The Object class
• • Overriding toString
• • Equality and membership testing
• • Hashing collections
• • Overriding hashCode and equals
• • The Comparable and Comparator interfaces
• • Searching and sorting
• • Overriding compareTo and compare

Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: NESTED CLASSES

• • Static nested classes
• • Inner classes
• • Shadowing
• • Local classes
• • Anonymous classes
• • Variable capture and effectively final

Session 5: LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS & METHOD REFERENCES

• • What is a lambda expression?
• • Lambda use case: collection filter
• • Lambda syntax
• • What is a method reference?
• • Method reference use case: collection sort
• • Method reference types x 4

Session 6: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

• • What is functional programming?
• • Functions as first class objects
• • Pure functions
• • Higher order functions
• • Immutable objects
• • Java's functional interfaces
• • Functional composition

Session 7: STREAMS

• • What is a stream?
• • Obtaining/creating a stream
• • Intermediate (non-terminal) operations
• • Terminal operations
• • The Optional class
• • The Collectors class
• • Stream concatenation
• • Primitive streams

Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 8: EXCEPTIONS,ASSERTIONS & LOCALISATION

• • Exceptions (a review)
• • Custom exceptions
• • Try with resources
• • Assertions
• • Dates and times
• • Internationalisation and localisation
• • Resource bundles

Session 9: MODULAR APPLICATIONS

• • Modules (a review)
• • Module types
• • Analysing dependencies
• • Migrating an existing application
• • Creating a service

Session 10: CONCURRENCY

• • Low-level threading incl. Runnable,sleep,join
• • The Java memory model
• • Threading problems incl. race conditions,deadlock,and starvation
• • Immutable objects and ThreadLocal
• • Thread synchronization incl. volatile,synchronized,atomic data types,and locks

Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10 (Continued): CONCURRENCY

• • ExecutorService,thread pools,Callable,and Future
• • Concurrent and immutable collections
• • Parallel streams

Session 11: I/O

• • Files and directories
• • I/O streams
• • Common operations
• • Binary data,character data,and serialisation
• • Console I/O

Session 12: NIO.2

• • What is NIO?
• • Paths
• • Manipulating the filesystem
• • File attributes
• • Listing,traversing,and searching a directory

Java Programming 2 / Java Advanced Developer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 13: ANNOTATIONS

• • What is an annotation?
• • Form and application
• • Standard annotations
• • Declaring an annotation

Session 14: REFLECTION

• • What is reflection?
• • Modules,classes,constructors,fields,and methods
• • Private members
• • Annotations
• • Generics and arrays
• • Dynamic proxies
• • Dynamic class loading

Session 15: SECURITY

• • Securing objects
• • Injection and input validation
• • Handling confidential information
• • Serialising and deserialising objects
• • Sensitive objects
• • Preventing denial of service attacks