Advanced Java Programming

Advanced Java Programming

Bascom Bridge’s Advanced Java Programming training course teaches Java developers a set of advanced Java development skills, including generics, threads, reflection, annotations, and sockets.

• Make effective use of Java generic types
• Write multi-threaded Java applications
• Use the Reflection API for highly generic tasks, discovery, or code-generation
• Use standard annotations and develop custom annotations to express meta-data in Java source files
• Communicate between processes using network sockets

ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING PREREQUISITES

Students should have solid Java programming experience, especially object-oriented use of the language. Students must be completely comfortable with interfaces and abstract classes, generics and collections, recursive methods, enumerations, varargs, basic Java I/O, serialization (and the transient keyword), the bean pattern, and basic UML class diagrams. Our Beginning Java Application Development class provides a significant portion of this background knowledge.

ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING MATERIALS

All students for this Java training course receive a copy of O’Reilly’s Head First Java, which is used as the instructional guide for the course, as well as related courseware.

SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR EACH PC:

• Core 2 Duo or faster processor with at least 3GB RAM
• Any operating system that supports Java 1.7 or later
• JDK 7 (6 could be accommodated upon request)
• The Java tool the students are likely to use after the class (Eclipse is recommended, but IntelliJ IDEA, IBM RAD, NetBeans, and other tools are supported)
• Other free software – please contact us if you have purchased this class
• For classes delivered online, all participants need either dual monitors or a separate device logged into the online session so that they can do their work on one screen and watch the instructor on the other. A separate computer connected to a projector or large screen TV would be another way for students to see the instructor’s screen simultaneously with working on their own.

ADVANCED JAVA TRAINING OUTLINE

• Generics
  • Using Generics
  • Type Erasure
  • Type Boundaries
  • Wildcards
  • Generic Methods
  • Strengths and Weaknesses of Generics
  • Legacy Code and Generics
• Threads
  • Java Thread Model
  • Creating and Running Threads
  • Manipulating Thread State
  • Thread Synchronization
  • Volatile Fields vs. Synchronized Methods
  • wait and notify
  • join and sleep
  • The Concurrency API
  • Atomic Operations
  • Thread Pools
• Reflection
  • Uses for Meta-Data
  • The Reflection API
  • The Class<T> Class
  • The java.lang.reflect Package
  • Reading Type Information
  • Navigating Inheritance Trees
  • Dynamic Instantiation
  • Dynamic Invocation
  • Reflecting on Generics
• Annotations
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming and Java
  • The Annotations Model
  • Annotation Types and Annotations
  • Built-In Annotations
  • Annotations vs. Descriptors (XML)
• Sockets
  • The OSI Reference Model
  • Network Protocols
  • The Socket Class
  • The ServerSocket Class
  • Connecting Through URL Objects
  • HTTP and Other TCP Servers
  • Datagram Clients and Servers
  • Non-Blocking Sockets
  • Multi-Threading in Servers
• Conclusion