Table of Contents

Introduction

1    Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the Web

2    Introduction to Java Applications

3    Control Statements: Part 1

4    Control Statements: Part 2

5    Methods

6    Arrays; Introducing Strings and Files

Object-Oriented Programming

7    Introduction to Classes and Objects

8    Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

9    Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

10    Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

11    Exception Handling

12   (Optional) ATM Case Study, Part 1: Object-Oriented Design with the UML

13   (Optional) ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object-Oriented Design

14   GUI Components: Part 1

15   Graphics and Java 2D™

23   Applets and Java Web Start

24   Multimedia: Applets and Applications

25   GUI Components: Part 2

16   Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

17   Files, Streams and Object Serialization

18   Recursion

19   Searching, Sorting and Big O

20   Generic Collections

21   Generic Classes and Methods

22   Custom Generic Data Structures

26   Multithreading

27   Networking

28   Accessing Databases with JDBC

29   JavaServer Faces Web Applications

30   Ajax-Enabled JavaServer Faces Web Applications

31   Web Services

A   Operator Precedence Chart           

B   ASCII Character Set         

C   Keywords and Reserved Words    

D   Primitive Types      

E   Using the Java API Documentation

F   Using the Debugger       

G   Formatted Output

H   Number Systems

I   GroupLayout   

J   Java Desktop Integration Components          

K   Mashups       

L   Unicode    

M   Creating Documentation with javadoc  

N   Bit Manipulation            

O   Labeled break and continue Statements      

P  UML 2: Additional Diagram Types     

Q  Design Patterns

Index

About the Author

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels’ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.