The Java (TM) Programming Language

By: James Gosling, David Holmes, Ken Arnold

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Direct from the creators of the Java™ programming language, the completely revised fourth edition of The Java™ Programming Language is an indispensable resource for novice and advanced programmers alike.

Developers around the world have used previous editions to quickly gain a deep understanding of the Java programming language, its design goals, and how to use it most effectively in real-world development. Now, Ken Arnold, James Gosling, and David Holmes have updated this classic to reflect the major enhancements in Java™ 2 Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE™ 5.0).

The authors systematically cover most classes in Java’s main packages, java.lang.*, java.util, and java.io, presenting in-depth explanations of why these classes work as they do, with informative examples. Several new chapters and major sections have been added, and every chapter has been updated to reflect today’s best practices for building robust, efficient, and maintainable Java software.

Key changes in this edition include

New chapters on generics, enums, and annotations, the most powerful new language features introduced in J2SE 5.0
Changes to classes and methods throughout to reflect the addition of generics
Major new sections on assertions and regular expressions
Coverage of all the new language features, from autoboxing and variable argument methods to the enhanced for-loop and covariant return types
Coverage of key new classes, such as Formatter and Scanner

The Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition, is the definitive tutorial introduction to the Java language and essential libraries and an indispensable reference for all programmers, including those with extensive experience. It brings together insights you can only get from the creators of Java: insights that will help you write software of exceptional quality.

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Preface	p. xxi
A Quick Tour	p. 1
Getting Started	p. 1
Variables	p. 3
Comments in Code	p. 6
Named Constants	p. 7
Unicode Characters	p. 8
Flow of Control	p. 9
Classes and Objects	p. 12
Creating Objects	p. 13
Static or Class Fields	p. 14
The Garbage Collector	p. 15
Methods and Parameters	p. 15
Invoking a Method	p. 15
The this Reference	p. 17
Static or Class Methods	p. 17
Arrays	p. 18
String Objects	p. 21
String Conversion and Formatting	p. 23
Extending a Class	p. 24
Invoking Methods of the Superclass	p. 25
The Object Class	p. 26
Type Casting	p. 27
Interfaces	p. 27
Generic Types	p. 29
Exceptions	p. 32
Annotations	p. 35
Package	p. 36
The Java Platform	p. 38
Other Topics Briefly Noted	p. 39
Classes and Objects	p. 41
A Simple Class	p. 42
Class Members	p. 42
Class Modifiers	p. 43
Fields	p. 44
Field Initialization	p. 44
Static Fields	p. 45
final Fields	p. 46
Access Control	p. 47
Creating Objects	p. 49
Construction and Initialization	p. 50
Constructors	p. 50
Initialization Blocks	p. 54
Static Initialization	p. 55
Methods	p. 56
Static Methods	p. 58
Method Invocations	p. 58
Methods with Variable Numbers of Arguments	p. 60
Method Execution and Return	p. 62
Parameter Values	p. 63
Using Methods to Control Access	p. 65
this	p. 68
Overloading Methods	p. 69
Importing Static Member Names	p. 71
The main Method	p. 73
Native Methods	p. 74
Extending Classes	p. 75
An Extended Class	p. 76
Constructors in Extended Classes	p. 80
Constructor Order Dependencies	p. 81
Inheriting and Redefining Members	p. 84
Overriding	p. 84
Hiding Fields	p. 86
Accessing Inherited Members	p. 86
Accessibility and Overriding	p. 88
Hiding Static Members	p. 89
The super Keyword	p. 89
Type Compatibility and Conversion	p. 90
Compatibility	p. 90
Explicit Type Casting	p. 91
Testing for Type	p. 92
What protected Really Means	p. 93
Marking Methods and Classes final	p. 96
Abstract Classes and Methods	p. 97
The Object Class	p. 99
Cloning Objects	p. 101
Strategies for Cloning	p. 101
Correct Cloning	p. 103
Shallow versus Deep Cloning	p. 106
Extending Classes: How and When	p. 107
Designing a Class to Be Extended	p. 108
Designing an Extensible Framework	p. 109
Single Inheritance versus Multiple Inheritance	p. 114
Interfaces	p. 117
A Simple Interface Example	p. 118
Interface Declarations	p. 120
Interface Constants	p. 121
Interface Methods	p. 122
Interface Modifiers	p. 122
Extending Interfaces	p. 122
Inheriting and Hiding Constants	p. 123
Inheriting, Overriding, and Overloading Methods	p. 125
Working with Interfaces	p. 126
Implementing Interfaces	p. 127
Using an Implementation	p. 129
Marker Interfaces	p. 130
When to Use Interfaces	p. 131
Nested Classes and Interfaces	p. 133
Static Nested Types	p. 133
Static Nested Classes	p. 134
Nested Interfaces	p. 135
Inner Classes	p. 136
Accessing Enclosing Objects	p. 138
Extending Inner Classes	p. 139
Inheritance, Scoping, and Hiding	p. 140
Local Inner Classes	p. 142
Inner Classes in Static Contexts	p. 144
Anonymous Inner Classes	p. 144
Inheriting Nested Types	p. 146
Nesting in Interfaces	p. 148
Modifiable Variables in Interfaces	p. 149
Implementation of Nested Types	p. 149
Enumeration Types	p. 151
A Simple Enum Example	p. 151
Enum Declarations	p. 152
Enum Modifiers	p. 154
Enum Constant Declarations	p. 154
Construction	p. 155
Constant Specific Behavior	p. 156
java.lang.Enum	p. 159
To Enum or Not	p. 160
Tokens, Values, and Variables	p. 161
Lexical Elements	p. 161
Character Set	p. 161
Comments	p. 163
Tokens	p. 164
Identifiers	p. 164
Keywords	p. 165
Types and Literals	p. 166
Reference Literals	p. 167
Boolean Literals	p. 167
Character Literals	p. 167
Integer Literals	p. 167
Floating-Point Literals	p. 168
String Literals	p. 168
Class Literals	p. 169
Variables	p. 169
Field and Local Variable Declarations	p. 170
Parameter Variables	p. 171
final Variables	p. 171
Array Variables	p. 173
Array Modifiers	p. 174
Arrays of Arrays	p. 174
Array Initialization	p. 175
Arrays and Types	p. 177
The Meanings of Names	p. 178
Primitives as Types	p. 183
Common Fields and Methods	p. 184
Construction	p. 185
Constants	p. 185
Common Methods	p. 186
Void	p. 187
Boolean	p. 187
Number	p. 188
The Integer Wrappers	p. 188
The Floating-Point Wrapper Classes	p. 191
Character	p. 192
Working with UTF-16	p. 196
Boxing Conversions	p. 198
Operators and Expressions	p. 201
Arithmetic Operations	p. 201
Integer Arithmetic	p. 202
Floating-Point Arithmetic	p. 202
Strict and Non-Strict Floating-Point Arithmetic	p. 203
General Operators	p. 204
Increment and Decrement Operators	p. 205
Relational and Equality Operators	p. 206
Logical Operators	p. 207
instanceof	p. 208
Bit Manipulation Operators	p. 208
The Conditional Operator?	p. 210
Assignment Operators	p. 212
String Concatenation Operator	p. 214
new	p. 214
Expressions	p. 214
Order of Evaluation	p. 214
Expression Type	p. 215
Type Conversions	p. 216
Implicit Type Conversions	p. 216
Explicit Type Casts	p. 219
String Conversions	p. 220
Operator Precedence and Associativity	p. 221
Member Access	p. 223
Finding the Right Method	p. 224
Control Flow	p. 229
Statements and Blocks	p. 229
if-else	p. 230
switch	p. 232
while and do-while	p. 235
for	p. 236
Basic for Statement	p. 236
Enhanced for Statement	p. 239
Labels	p. 241
break	p. 241
continue	p. 244
return	p. 245
What, No goto?	p. 246
Generic Types	p. 247
Generic Type Declarations	p. 250
Bounded Type Parameters	p. 252
Nested Generic Types	p. 253
Working with Generic Types	p. 256
Subtyping and Wildcards	p. 256
Generic Methods and Constructors	p. 260
Generic Invocations and Type Inference	p. 262
Wildcard Capture	p. 264
Under the Hood: Erasure and Raw Types	p. 267
Erasure at Runtime	p. 267
Overloading and Overriding	p. 271
Finding the Right Method-Revisited	p. 272
Class Extension and Generic Types	p. 276
Exceptions and Assertions	p. 279
Creating Exception Types	p. 280
throw	p. 282
Transfer of Control	p. 283
Asynchronous Exceptions	p. 283
The throws Clause	p. 283
throws Clauses and Method Overriding	p. 285
throws Clauses and Native Methods	p. 286
try, catch, and finally	p. 286
finally	p. 288
Exception Chaining	p. 291
Stack Traces	p. 294
When to Use Exceptions	p. 294
Assertions	p. 296
The assert Statement	p. 297
When to Use Assertions	p. 297
State Assertions	p. 297
Control Flow Assertions	p. 299
Turning Assertions On and Off	p. 300
Why Turn Assertions On and Off?	p. 300
Controlling Assertions on the Command Line	p. 300
Complete Removal	p. 302
Making Assertions Required	p. 302
Strings and Regular Expressions	p. 305
Character Sequences	p. 305
The String Class	p. 306
Basic String Operations	p. 306
String Comparisons	p. 308
String Literals, Equivalence and Interning	p. 311
Making Related Strings	p. 313
String Conversions	p. 316
Strings and char Arrays	p. 317
Strings and byte Arrays	p. 319
Character Set Encoding	p. 320
Regular Expression Matching	p. 321
Regular Expressions	p. 321
Compiling and Matching with Regular Expressions	p. 323
Replacing	p. 326
Regions	p. 329
Efficiency	p. 329
The StringBuilder Class	p. 330
Modifying the Buffer	p. 331
Getting Data Out	p. 333
Capacity Management	p. 334
The StringBuffer Class	p. 335
Working with UTF-16	p. 336
Threads	p. 337
Creating Threads	p. 339
Using Runnable	p. 341
Synchronization	p. 345
synchronized Methods	p. 346
Static synchronized Methods	p. 348
synchronized Statements	p. 348
Synchronization Designs	p. 352
wait, notifyAll, and notify	p. 354
Details of Waiting and Notification	p. 357
Thread Scheduling	p. 358
Voluntary Rescheduling	p. 360
Deadlocks	p. 362
Ending Thread Execution	p. 365
Cancelling a Thread	p. 365
Waiting for a Thread to Complete	p. 367
Ending Application Execution	p. 369
The Memory Model: Synchronization and volatile	p. 370
Synchronization Actions	p. 372
Final Fields and Security	p. 373
The Happens-Before Relationship	p. 374
Thread Management, Security, and ThreadGroup	p. 375
Threads and Exceptions	p. 379
Don't stop	p. 381
Stack Traces	p. 382
ThreadLocal Variables	p. 382
Debugging Threads	p. 384
Annotations	p. 387
A Simple Annotation Example	p. 388
Annotation Types	p. 389
Annotating Elements	p. 392
Restricting Annotation Applicability	p. 393
Retention Policies	p. 395
Working with Annotations	p. 395
Reflection	p. 397
The Class Class	p. 399
Type Tokens	p. 400
Class Inspection	p. 402
Examining Class Members	p. 408
Naming Classes	p. 411
Obtaining Class Objects by Name	p. 413
Runtime Type Queries	p. 414
Annotation Queries	p. 414
The Modifier Class	p. 416
The Member classes	p. 416
Access Checking and AccessibleObject	p. 417
The Field Class	p. 418
Final Fields	p. 420
The Method Class	p. 420
Creating New Objects and the Constructor Class	p. 423
Inner Class Constructors	p. 425
Generic Type Inspection	p. 426
Type Variables	p. 426
Parameterized Types	p. 427
Wildcards	p. 428
Generic Arrays	p. 428
String Representations of Type Objects	p. 428
Arrays	p. 429
Genericity and Dynamic Arrays	p. 430
Packages	p. 432
The Proxy Class	p. 432
Loading Classes	p. 435
The ClassLoader Class	p. 438
Preparing a Class for Use	p. 441
Loading Related Resources	p. 442
Controlling Assertions at Runtime	p. 444
Garbage Collection and Memory	p. 447
Garbage Collection	p. 447
A Simple Model	p. 448
Finalization	p. 449
Resurrecting Objects during finalize	p. 452
Interacting with the Garbage Collector	p. 452
Reachability States and Reference Objects	p. 454
The Reference Class	p. 455
Strengths of Reference and Reachability	p. 455
Reference Queues	p. 459
Finalization and Reachability	p. 464
Packages	p. 467
Package Naming	p. 468
Type Imports	p. 469
Package Access	p. 471
Accessibility and Overriding Methods	p. 472
Package Contents	p. 475
Package Annotations	p. 476
Package Objects and Specifications	p. 477
Documentation Comments	p. 481
The Anatomy of a Doc Comment	p. 482
Tags	p. 483
@see	p. 483
{@link} and {@linkplain}	p. 484
@param	p. 485
@return	p. 485
@throws and @exception	p. 485
@deprecated	p. 486
@author	p. 486
@version	p. 487
@since	p. 487
{@literal} and {@code}	p. 487
{@value}	p. 487
{@docRoot}	p. 488
{@inheritDoc}	p. 488
Inheriting Method Documentation Comments	p. 489
Inheriting @throws Comments	p. 490
A Simple Example	p. 491
External Conventions	p. 496
Package and Overview Documentation	p. 496
The doc-files Directory	p. 497
Notes on Usage	p. 497
The I/O Package	p. 499
Streams Overview	p. 500
Byte Streams	p. 501
InputStream	p. 503
OutputStream	p. 505
Character Streams	p. 507
Reader	p. 508
Writer	p. 510
Character Streams and the Standard Streams	p. 511
InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter	p. 512
A Quick Tour of the Stream Classes	p. 514
Synchronization and Concurrency	p. 515
Filter Streams	p. 516
Buffered Streams	p. 518
Piped Streams	p. 520
ByteArray Byte Streams	p. 521
CharArray Character Streams	p. 522
String Character Streams	p. 523
Print Streams	p. 525
LineNumberReader	p. 527
SequenceInputStream	p. 528
Pushback Streams	p. 529
StreamTokenizer	p. 532
The Data Byte Streams	p. 537
DataInput and DataOutput	p. 537
The Data Stream Classes	p. 539
Working with Files	p. 540
File Streams and FileDescriptor	p. 540
RandomAccessFile	p. 541
The File Class	p. 543
FilenameFilter and FileFilter	p. 548
Object Serialization	p. 549
The Object Byte Streams	p. 549
Making Your Classes Serializable	p. 551
Serialization and Deserialization Order	p. 552
Customized Serialization	p. 554
Object Versioning	p. 557
Serialized Fields	p. 559
The Externalizable Interface	p. 561
Documentation Comment Tags	p. 562
The IOException Classes	p. 563
A Taste of New I/O	p. 565
Collections	p. 567
Collections	p. 567
Exception Conventions	p. 570
Iteration	p. 571
Ordering with Comparable and Comparator	p. 574
The Collection Interface	p. 575
Set and SortedSet	p. 577
HashSet	p. 579
LinkedHashSet	p. 580
TreeSet	p. 580
List	p. 580
ArrayList	p. 582
LinkedList	p. 583
RandomAccess Lists	p. 584
Queue	p. 585
PriorityQueue	p. 586
Map and SortedMap	p. 587
HashMap	p. 590
LinkedHashMap	p. 591
IdentityHashMap	p. 592
WeakHashMap	p. 592
TreeMap	p. 593
enum Collections	p. 594
EnumSet	p. 594
EnumMap	p. 596
Wrapped Collections and the Collections Class	p. 597
The Collections Utilities	p. 597
The Unmodifiable Wrappers	p. 601
The Checked Wrappers	p. 601
Synchronized Wrappers and Concurrent Collections	p. 602
The Synchronized Wrappers	p. 602
The Concurrent Collections	p. 604
The Arrays Utility Class	p. 607
Writing Iterator Implementations	p. 609
Writing Collection Implementations	p. 611
The Legacy Collection Types	p. 616
Enumeration	p. 617
Vector	p. 617
Stack	p. 619
Dictionary	p. 619
Hashtable	p. 619
Properties	p. 620
Miscellaneous Utilities	p. 623
Formatter	p. 624
Format Specifiers	p. 626
Integer Conversions	p. 627
Floating-Point Conversions	p. 627
Character Conversions	p. 629
General Conversions	p. 629
Custom Formatting	p. 630
Format Exceptions	p. 630
The Formatter Class	p. 631
BitSet	p. 632
Observer/Observable	p. 635
Random	p. 639
Scanner	p. 641
Stream of Values	p. 641
Scanning Lines	p. 644
Using Scanner	p. 647
Localization	p. 651
StringTokenizer	p. 651
Timer and TimerTask	p. 653
UUID	p. 656
Math and StrictMath	p. 657
System Programming	p. 661
The System Class	p. 662
Standard I/O Streams	p. 662
System Properties	p. 663
Utility Methods	p. 665
Creating Processes	p. 666
Process	p. 667
Process Environments	p. 669
ProcessBuilder	p. 670
Portability	p. 672
Shutdown	p. 672
Shutdown Hooks	p. 672
The Shutdown Sequence	p. 674
Shutdown Strategies	p. 674
The Rest of Runtime	p. 675
Loading Native Code	p. 676
Debugging	p. 676
Security	p. 677
The SecurityManager Class	p. 678
Permissions	p. 679
Security Policies	p. 680
Access Controllers and Privileged Execution	p. 681
Internationalization and Localization	p. 685
Locale	p. 686
Resource Bundles	p. 688
ListResourceBundle	p. 691
PropertyResourceBundle	p. 692
Subclassing ResourceBundle	p. 693
Currency	p. 694
Time, Dates, and Calendars	p. 695
Calendars	p. 695
Time Zones	p. 700
GregorianCalendar and SimpleTimeZone	p. 701
Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times	p. 703
Using Formatter with Dates and Times	p. 706
Internationalization and Localization for Text	p. 708
Collation	p. 708
Formatting and Parsing	p. 710
Text Boundaries	p. 712
Standard Packages	p. 715
java.awt-The Abstract Window Toolkit	p. 717
java.applet-Applets	p. 720
java.beans-Components	p. 721
java.math-Mathematics	p. 722
java.net-The Network	p. 724
java.rmi-Remote Method Invocation	p. 727
java.security and Related Packages-Security Tools	p. 732
java.sql-Relational Database Access	p. 732
Utility Subpackages	p. 733
Concurrency Utilities-java.util.concurrent	p. 733
Archive Files-java.util.jar	p. 735
ZIP Files-java.util.zip	p. 736
javax.*-Standard Extensions	p. 737
javax.accessibility-Accessibility for GUIs	p. 737
javax.naming-Directory and Naming Services	p. 738
javax.sound-Sound Manipulation	p. 739
javax.swing-Swing GUI Components	p. 740
org.omg.CORBA-CORBA APIs	p. 740
Application Evolution	p. 741
Language, Library, and Virtual Machine Versions	p. 741
Dealing with Multiple Dialects	p. 743
Generics: Reification, Erasure, and Raw Types	p. 744
Raw Types, "Unchecked" Warnings, and Bridge Methods	p. 745
API Issues	p. 747
Useful Tables	p. 749
Further Reading	p. 755
Index	p. 761
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