1.GUI Components: Part 1.

• Java’s Nimbus Look-and-Feel
• Simple Input/Output with JOptionPane
• Displaying Text and Images (Icons)
• Text Fields
• Event Handling with Nested Classes
• Common GUI Event Types and Listener Interfaces
• JButton
• JCheckBox
• JRadioButton
• JComboBox
• Using an Anonymous Inner Class for Event Handling
• JList
• Multiple-Selection Lists
• Mouse Event Handling
• Adapter Classes
• JPanel Subclass for Drawing with the Mouse
• Key Event Handling
• FlowLayout
• BorderLayout
• GridLayout
• Using Panels to Manage More Complex Layouts
• JTextArea

2. Exception Handling.

• Handling Arithmetic Exceptions and Input Mismatch Exceptions
• When to Use Exception Handling
• Java Exception Hierarchy
• finally Block
• Stack Unwinding
• Chained Exceptions
• Declaring New Exception Types
• Handling Multiple Exceptions in One catch
• Automatic Resource Deallocation

3. Regular Expressions and Workong with XML

• The regular expressions language – literals and meta-characters, character classes, quantifiers, grouping characters, etc.
• Regular expressions in Java
• Searching, extracting, validating, splitting and replacing text by regular expressions
• XML
• Parsing XML

4. Files, Streams and Object Serialization.

• Files and Streams
• Class File
• Text Files – creating, reading, updating
• Object Serialization
• Creating a File Using Object Serialization
• Reading and Deserializing Data from a File
• Additional java.io Classes
• Opening Files with JFileChooser

5. Generic Collections.

• CollectionsOverview
• Type-Wrapper Classes for Primitive Types
• Autoboxing and Auto-Unboxing
• Interface Collection and Class Collections
• Lists
• ArrayList and Iterator
• LinkedList
• Collections Methods – sort, shuffle, reverse, fill, copy, max, min, binarySearch, addAll, frequency and disjoint
• Stack Class of Package java.util
• Class PriorityQueue and Interface Queue
• Sets
• Maps
• Properties Class
• Synchronized Collections
• Unmodifiable Collections
• Abstract Implementations

6. Generic Classes and Methods.

• Generic Methods: Implementation and Compile-Time Translation
• Methods That Use a Type Parameter as the Return Type
• Overloading Generic Methods
• Generic Classes
• Raw Types
• Wildcards in Methods That Accept Type Parameters
• Generics and Inheritance: Notes

7. Applets.

• Sample Applets Provided with the JDK
• Simple Java Applet: Drawing a String
• Executing WelcomeApplet in the appletviewer
• Executing an Applet in a Web Browser
• Applet Life-Cycle Methods
• Initialization with Method init
• Sandbox Security Model

8. GUI Components: Part 2.

• JSlider
• Windows: Additional Notes
• Using Menus with Frames
• JPopupMenu
• Pluggable Look-and-Feel
• JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame
• JTabbedPane
• Layout Managers: BoxLayout and GridBagLayout

9. Multithreading. Multithreading with GUI.

• Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread
• Creating and Executing Threads with Executor Framework
• Multithreading with GUI
• Performing Computations in a Worker Thread
• Processing Intermediate Results with SwingWorker

10. Networking.

• Manipulating URLs
• Reading a File on a Web Server
• Establishing a Simple Server Using Stream Sockets
• Establishing a Simple Client Using Stream Sockets
• Client/Server Interaction with Stream Socket Connections
• Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server

11. Accessing Databases with JDBC.

• Relational Databases
• SQL
• Java DB/Apache Derby
• PreparedStatements

12. JavaServer™ Faces Web Apps.

• Multitier Application Architecture
• Model-View-Controller Architecture of JSF Apps
• Common JSF Components
• Validation Using JSF Standard Validators
• Session Tracking
• Accessing Databases in Web Apps

13. Web Service Basics.

• SimpleObject Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Representational State Transfer (REST)
• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Publishing and Consuming SOAP-Based Web Services
• Consuming a Database-Driven SOAP Web Services