Content

1. An Introduction to Java

1.1 Introduction

1.2 A Brief History of Java

1.3 Features of Java

1.4 Comparison of Java and C++

1.5 Java Environment

1.6 Java Tools and Editors

1.7 A Simple Java Program

1.8 Creating, Compiling and Executing a Java Program

2. An Overview of Java

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Comments in java

2.3 Java Keywords

2.4 Data Types

2.5 Identifiers, Variables, Literals and Constants

2.7 Control Flow

2.8 Arrays

2.9 Simple Input/Output

3. Objects and Classes

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Defining Classes

3.3 Creating Objects

3.4 Constructors

3.5 Defining Methods

3.6 Static Fields, Methods and Blocks

3.7 Predefined Classes

3.8 Packages

3.9 Controlling Access

3.10 Garbage Collection and Finalize()

4. Inheritance

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Inheritance Basics

4.3 Member Access

4.4 Method Overriding

4.5 Polymorphism and Dynamic Binding

4.6 Abstract Class

4.7 Final Keyword

5. Interfaces and Inner Classes

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Interfaces

5.3 Implementing Interfaces

5.4 Interfaces and Multiple Inheritance

5.5 Interfaces vs Abstract Classes

5.6 Object Cloning

5.7 Inner Classes

5.8 Local Inner Class

5.9 Anonymous Inner Class

6. Exception Handling

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Dealing with Errors

6.3 Exception

6.3.1 Exception Classes

6.3.2 Checked and Unchecked Exceptions

6.4 Exception Handling

6.5 Creating User Defined Exceptions

6.6 Assertions

7. Strings, Streams and Files

7.1 Introduction

7.2 String Class

7.3 Stringbuffer Class

7.4 File Class

7.5 Stream Classes

7.6 Random Access Files

8. User Interface Components with AWT and Swing

8.1 Introduction

8.2 AWT and Swing

8.3 AWT Classes

8.4 MVC Architecture

8.5 Java GUI API

8.6 Layout Managers

8.7 JComponent class

8.8 Event Handling

8.9 Swing components

9. Applet Programming

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Creating Applets

9.3 Applet Lifecycle

9.4 Adding Components to Applets

9.5 Applet Tag

9.6 Passing Parameters to Applets

9.7 repaint() and update()

9.8 Applet Advantages and Restrictions