The Definitive Java Programming Guide
Fully updated for Java SE 8, Java Essentials for Devs explains how to develop, compile, debug, and run Java programs. This book covers the entire Java language, including its syntax, keywords, and fundamental programming principles, as well as significant portions of the Java API library. JavaBeans, servlets, applets, and Swing are examined and real-world examples demonstrate Java in action. New Java SE 8 features such as lambda expressions, the stream library, and the default interface method are discussed in detail.
Coverage includes:
- Data types, variables, arrays, and operators
- Control statements
- Classes, objects, and methods
- Method overloading and overriding
- Inheritance
- Interfaces and packages
- Exception handling
- Multithreaded programming
- Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations
- The I/O classes
- Generics
- Lambda expressions
- String handling
- The Collections Framework
- Networking
- Event handling
- AWT and Swing
- The Concurrent API
- The Stream API
- Regular expressions
- Much, much more
