1. Review of Java Fundamentals

• The Java Architecture
• Forms for Java Software
• Three Platforms
• The Java Language
• Numeric Types
• Characters and Booleans
• Enumerations
• Object References
• Strings and Arrays
• Conditional Constructs
• Looping Constructs
• Varargs

2. Object-Oriented Software

• Complex Systems
• Abstraction
• Classes and Objects
• Responsibilities and Collaborators
• UML
• Relationships
• Visibility

3. Classes and Objects

• Java Classes
• Constructors and Garbage Collection
• Naming Conventions and JavaBeans
• Relationships Between Classes
• Using this
• Visibility
• Packages and Imports
• Overloading Methods and Constructors
• JARs

4. Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java

• UML Specialization
• Extending Classes
• Using Derived Classes
• Type Identification
• Compile-Time and Run-Time Type
• Polymorphism
• Overriding Methods
• Superclass Reference

5. Using Classes Effectively

• Class Loading
• Static Members
• Statics and Non-Statics
• Static Initializers
• Static Imports
• Prohibiting Inheritance
• Costs of Object Creation
• Strings and StringBuffers
• Controlling Object Creation
• Understanding Enumerated Types
• Stateful and Behavioral Enumerations

6. Interfaces and Abstract Classes

• Separating Interface and Implementation
• UML Interfaces and Realization
• Defining Interfaces
• Implementing and Extending Interfaces
• Abstract Classes

7. Collections

• Dynamic Collections vs. Arrays
• UML Parameterized Type
• Generics
• Using Generics
• The Collections API
• The Collection<E> and List<E> Interfaces
• The ArrayList<E> and LinkedList<E> Classes
• Looping Over Collections: Iterable<E>
• Collecting Primitive Values: Auto-Boxing
• Using Wildcards with Generic Types
• Iterators and the Iterator<E> Interface
• Maps and the Map<K,V> Interface
• Sorted Collections
• The SortedSet<E> and SortedMap<K,V> Interfaces
• The Collections Class Utility
• Algorithms
• Conversion Utilities

8. Exception Handling and Logging

• Reporting and Trapping Errors
• Exception Handling
• Throwing Exceptions
• Declaring Exceptions per Method
• Catching Exceptions
• The finally Block
• Catch-and-Release
• Chaining Exceptions
• The J2SE Logging API
• Severity Levels
• Log Hierarchies

9. Inner Classes

• Passing Behavior
• Inner Classes in GUI Programming
• Named Inner Classes
• Outer Object Reference
• Static Inner Classes
• Anonymous Inner Classes

10. The Java Streams Model

• Delegation-Based Stream Model
• InputStream and OutputStream
• Media-Based Streams
• Filtering Streams
• Readers and Writers

11. Working with Files

• File Class
• Modeling Files and Directories
• File Streams
• Random-Access Files

12. Advanced Stream Techniques

• Buffering
• Data Streams
• Push-Back Parsing
• Byte-Array Streams and String Readers and Writers

13.  Java Serialization

• The Challenge of Object Serialization
• Serialization API
• Serializable Interface
• ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
• The Serialization Engine
• Transient Fields
• readObject and writeObject
• Externalizable Interface

14. Automated Unit Testing with JUnit

• Automated Testing
• JUnit and Related Tools
• TestCases and TestSuites
• TestRunners
• TestResults and Asserts
• Developing JUnit Tests