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Chapter 1. The Java Environment

• Overview of Architecture
• Forms for Java Software
• J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME Platforms
• Java Virtual Machine
• The Core API
• Java Runtime Environment
• Java Developer's Kit
• Java Class Path
• Classes
• Built-In Streams and Command-Line Parameters

Chapter 2. Language Fundamentals

• Source File Format
• Application Classes
• Code Grammar and Expressions
• Identifiers
• Literals
• Operators
• Calling Methods
• Variable Parameter Lists ("varargs")

Chapter 3. Data Types

• Strict Type Checking
• Primitive Types
• Numeric Types
• Characters and Booleans
• Enumerations
• Type Conversion
• Formatted Output
• Object References
• Comparing and Assigning References
• Strings
• Arrays

Chapter 4. Flow Control

• The main Method
• Calling and Returning from Methods
• Conditional Constructs
• Looping Constructs
• Processing Arrays
• Looping and Enumerations
• Processing Varargs
• The Flow-Control Operator
• Break and Continue
• Recursion

Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Software

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

Chapter 6. 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

Chapter 7. Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java

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

Chapter 8. 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

Chapter 9. Interfaces and Abstract Classes

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

Chapter 10. 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

Chapter 11. 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
• try-with-resources
• Logging
• The Java SE Logging API
• Loggers
• Logging Levels
• Handlers
• Configuration
• Best Practices

Chapter 12. Nested Classes

• Nested Classes
• Static Classes
• Inner Classes
• Relationship with the Outer Object
• Local Classes
• Enclosing Scope
• Anonymous Classes

Chapter 13. Functional Programming

• Passing Behavior as a Parameter
• Inner Classes
• Functional Interfaces
• Built-In Functional Interfaces
• Lambda Expressions
• Scope and Visibility
• Deferred Execution
• Method References
• Creational Methods
• Designing for Functional Programming
• Default Methods

Chapter 14. Streams

• The Stream Processing Model
• Streams
• Relationship to Collections
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Iterating, Filtering, and Mapping
• Primitive-Type Streams
• Aggregate Functions and Statistics
• Sorting
• Generating, Limiting, and Reducing
• Finding and Matching
• Grouping
• Flattening and Traversing
• Sequential vs. Parallel Processing