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| About the Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Declarations and Access Control | |
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| Java Refresher | |
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| Identifiers & JavaBeans (Objectives 1.3 and 1.4) | |
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| Legal Identifiers | |
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| Sun's Java Code Conventions | |
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| JavaBeans Standards | |
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| Declare Classes (Exam Objective 1.1) | |
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| Source File Declaration Rules | |
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| Class Declarations and Modifiers | |
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| Creating an Abstract Superclass and Concrete Subclass | |
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| Declare Interfaces (Exam Objectives 1.1 and 1.2) | |
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| Declaring an Interface | |
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| Declaring Interface Constants | |
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| Declare Class Members (Objectives 1.3 and 1.4) | |
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| Access Modifiers | |
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| Nonaccess Member Modifiers | |
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| Constructor Declarations | |
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| Variable Declarations | |
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| Declaring Enums | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Object Orientation | |
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| Encapsulation (Exam Objective 5.1) | |
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| Inheritance, Is-A, Has-A (Exam Objective 5.5) | |
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| IS-A | |
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| HAS-A | |
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| Polymorphism (Exam Objective 5.2) | |
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| Overriding / Overloading (Exam Objectives 1.5 and 5.4) | |
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| Overridden Methods | |
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| Overloaded Methods | |
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| Reference Variable Casting (Objective 5.2) | |
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| Implementing an Interface (Exam Objective 1.2) | |
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| Legal Return Types (Exam Objective 1.5) | |
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| Return Type Declarations | |
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| Returning a Value | |
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| Constructors and Instantiation (Exam Objectives 1.6 and 5.4) | |
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| Determine Whether a Default Constructor Will Be Created | |
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| Overloaded Constructors | |
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| Statics (Exam Objective 1.3) | |
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| Static Variables and Methods | |
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| Coupling and Cohesion (Exam Objective 5.1) | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Assignments | |
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| Stack and Heap-Quick Review | |
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| Literals, Assignments, and Variables (Exam Objectives 1.3 and 7.6) | |
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| Literal Values for All Primitive Types | |
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| Assignment Operators | |
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| Casting Primitives | |
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| Using a Variable or Array Element That Is Uninitialized and Unassigned | |
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| Local (Stack, Automatic) Primitives and Objects | |
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| Passing Variables into Methods (Exam Objective 7.3) | |
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| Passing Object Reference Variables | |
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| Does Java Use Pass-By-Value Semantics? | |
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| Passing Primitive Variables | |
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| Array Declaration, Construction, and Initialization (Exam Objective 1.3) | |
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| Declaring an Array | |
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| Constructing an Array | |
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| Initializing an Array | |
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| Initialization Blocks | |
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| Using Wrapper Classes and Boxing (Exam Objective 3.1) | |
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| An Overview of the Wrapper Classes | |
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| Creating Wrapper Objects | |
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| Using Wrapper Conversion Utilities | |
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| Autoboxing | |
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| Overloading (Exam Objectives 1.5 and 5.4) | |
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| Garbage Collection (Exam Objective 7.4) | |
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| Overview of Memory Management and Garbage Collection | |
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| Overview of Java's Garbage Collector | |
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| Writing Code That Explicitly Makes Objects Eligible for Collection | |
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| GC Analysis | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Operators | |
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| Java Operators (Exam Objective 7.6) | |
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| Assignment Operators | |
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| Relational Operators | |
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| instanceof Comparison | |
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| Arithmetic Operators | |
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| Conditional Operator | |
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| Logical Operators | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Flow Control, Exceptions, and Assertions | |
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| if and switch Statements (Exam Objective 2.1) | |
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| if-else Branching | |
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| switch Statements | |
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| Creating a switch-case Statement | |
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| Loops and Iterators (Exam Objective 2.2) | |
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| Using while Loops | |
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| Using do Loops | |
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| Using for Loops | |
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| Using break and continue | |
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| Unlabeled Statements | |
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| Labeled Statements | |
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| Creating a Labeled while Loop | |
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| Handling Exceptions (Exam Objectives 2.4 and 2.5) | |
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| Catching an Exception Using try and catch | |
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| Using finally | |
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| Propagating Uncaught Exceptions | |
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| Propagating and Catching an Exception | |
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| Defining Exceptions | |
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| Exception Hierarchy | |
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| Handling an Entire Class Hierarchy of Exceptions | |
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| Exception Matching | |
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| Exception Declaration and the Public Interface | |
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| Rethrowing the Same Exception | |
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| Creating an Exception | |
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| Common Exceptions and Errors (Exam Objective 2.6) | |
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| Working with the Assertion Mechanism (Exam Objective 2.3) | |
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| Assertions Overview | |
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| Enabling Assertions | |
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| Using Assertions Appropriately | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Strings, I/O, Formatting, and Parsing | |
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| String, StringBuilder, and StringBuffer (Exam Objective 3.1) | |
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| The String Class | |
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| Important Facts About Strings and Memory | |
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| Important Methods in the String Class | |
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| The StringBuffer and StringBuilder Classes | |
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| Important Methods in the StringBuffer and StringBuilder Classes | |
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| File Navigation and I/O (Exam Objective 3.2) | |
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| Serialization (Exam Objective 3.3) | |
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| Dates, Numbers, and Currency (Exam Objective 3.4) | |
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| Working with Dates, Numbers, and Currencies | |
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| Parsing, Tokenizing, and Formatting (Exam Objective 3.5) | |
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| A Search Tutorial | |
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| Locating Data via Pattern Matching | |
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| Tokenizing | |
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| Formatting with printf() and format() | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Generics and Collections | |
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| Overriding hashCode() and equals() (Objective 6.2) | |
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| Overriding equals() | |
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| Overriding hashCode() | |
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| Collections (Exam Objective 6.1) | |
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| So What Do You Do with a Collection? | |
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| Using the Collections Framework (Objective 6.5) | |
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| ArrayList Basics | |
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| Autoboxing with Collections | |
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| Sorting Collections and Arrays | |
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| Generic Types (Objectives 6.3 and 6.4) | |
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| Generics and Legacy Code | |
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| Mixing Generic and Non-generic Collections | |
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| Polymorphism and Generics | |
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| Generic Methods | |
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| Generic Declarations | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Inner Classes | |
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| Inner Classes | |
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| Coding a "Regular" Inner Class | |
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| Referencing the Inner or Outer Instance from Within the Inner Class | |
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| Method-Local Inner Classes | |
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| What a Method-Local Inner Object Can and Can't Do | |
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| Anonymous Inner Classes | |
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| Plain-Old Anonymous Inner Classes, Flavor One | |
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| Plain-Old Anonymous Inner Classes, Flavor Two | |
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| Argument-Defined Anonymous Inner Class | |
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| Static Nested Classes | |
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| Instantiating and Using Static Nested Classes | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Threads | |
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| Defining, Instantiating, and Starting Threads (Exam Objective 4.1) | |
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| Defining a Thread | |
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| Instantiating a Thread | |
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| Starting a Thread | |
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| Thread States and Transitions (Exam Objective 4.2) | |
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| Thread States | |
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| Preventing Thread Execution | |
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| Sleeping | |
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| Creating a Thread and Putting It to Sleep | |
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| Thread Priorities and yield() | |
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| Synchronizing Code (Exam Objective 4.3) | |
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| Synchronization and Locks | |
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| Synchronizing a Block of Code | |
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| Thread Deadlock | |
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| Thread Interaction (Exam Objective 4.4) | |
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| Using notifyAll() When Many Threads May Be Waiting | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| Exercise Answers | |
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| Development | |
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| Using the javac and java Commands (Exam Objectives 7.1, 7.2, 7.5) | |
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| Compiling with javac | |
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| Launching Applications with java | |
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| Searching for Other Classes | |
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| JAR Files (Exam Objective 7.5) | |
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| JAR Files and Searching | |
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| Using Static Imports (Exam Objective 7.1) | |
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| Static Imports | |
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| Two-Minute Drill | |
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| Q&A | |
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| Self Test | |
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| Self Test Answers | |
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| About the CD | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Installing and Running Master Exam | |
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| Master Exam | |
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| Electronic Book | |
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| Help | |
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| Removing Installation(s) | |
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| Technical Support | |
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| LearnKey Technical Support | |
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| Index | |