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Contents at a Glance
PART I The Java Language
1 The History and Evolution of Java 3
2 An Overview of Java 21
3 Data Types, Variables, and Arrays 39
4 Operators 67
5 Control Statements 87
6 Introducing Classes 117
7 A Closer Look at Methods and Classes 137
8 Inheritance 171
9 Packages and Interfaces 199
10 Exception Handling 227
11 Multithreaded Programming 247
12 Enumerations, Autoboxing, and Annotations 277
13 I/O, Try-with-Resources, and Other Topics 315
14 Generics 347
15 Lambda Expressions 391
16 Modules 421
17 Switch Expressions, Records,
and Other Recently Added Features 449
PART II The Java Library
18 String Handling 483
19 Exploring java.lang 511
20 java.util Part 1: The Collections Framework 571
21 java.util Part 2: More Utility Classes 653
22 Input/Output: Exploring java.io 713
23 Exploring NIO 763
24 Networking 795
25 Event Handling 819
26 Introducing the AWT: Working with
Windows, Graphics, and Text 851
27 Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus 879
28 Images 929
29 The Concurrency Utilities 955
30 The Stream API 1005
31 Regular Expressions and Other Packages 1031
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PART III Introducing GUI Programming with Swing
32 Introducing Swing 1061
33 Exploring Swing 1079
34 Introducing Swing Menus 1109
PART IV Applying Java
35 Java Beans 1145
36 Introducing Servlets 1157
PART V Appendixes
A Using Java’s Documentation Comments 1183
B Introducing JShell 1191
C Compile and Run Simple Single-File Programs in
One Step 1201
Index 1203
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Preface ......................................................... xxxi
Part I The Java Language
Chapter 1 The History and Evolution of Java ..................................3
Java’s Lineage .......................................................3
The Birth of Modern Programming: C ............................4
C++: The Next Step.............................................5
The Stage Is Set for Java .........................................6
The Creation of Java .................................................6
The C# Connection.............................................8
How Java Impacted the Internet.......................................8
Java Applets....................................................8
Security .......................................................9
Portability .....................................................9
Java’s Magic: The Bytecode ..........................................10
Moving Beyond Applets.............................................11
A Faster Release Schedule...........................................12
Servlets: Java on the Server Side......................................12
The Java Buzzwords ................................................13
Simple .......................................................13
Object-Oriented...............................................13
Robust .......................................................13
Multithreaded.................................................14
Architecture-Neutral ..........................................14
Interpreted and High Performance ..............................14
Distributed ...................................................15
Dynamic .....................................................15
The Evolution of Java ...............................................15
A Culture of Innovation.............................................20
Chapter 2 An Overview of Java .............................................21
Object-Oriented Programming ......................................21
Two Paradigms................................................21
Abstraction...................................................22
The Three OOP Principles......................................22
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A First Simple Program .............................................27
Entering the Program ..........................................27
Compiling the Program ........................................27
A Closer Look at the First Sample Program.......................28
A Second Short Program............................................30
Two Control Statements ............................................32
The if Statement...............................................32
The for Loop..................................................33
Using Blocks of Code ...............................................34
Lexical Issues ......................................................36
Whitespace...................................................36
Identifiers ....................................................36
Literals.......................................................36
Comments....................................................36
Separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
The Java Keywords.............................................37
The Java Class Libraries .............................................38
Chapter 3 Data Types, Variables, and Arrays.................................39
Java Is a Strongly Typed Language....................................39
The Primitive Types ................................................39
Integers ...........................................................40
byte..........................................................40
short.........................................................41
int ...........................................................41
long..........................................................41
Floating-Point Types................................................42
float..........................................................42
double .......................................................42
Characters.........................................................43
Booleans ..........................................................44
A Closer Look at Literals............................................45
Integer Literals................................................45
Floating-Point Literals .........................................46
Boolean Literals...............................................47
Character Literals .............................................47
String Literals.................................................47
Variables ..........................................................48
Declaring a Variable ...........................................48
Dynamic Initialization .........................................49
The Scope and Lifetime of Variables .............................49
Type Conversion and Casting........................................52
Java’s Automatic Conversions ...................................52
Casting Incompatible Types ....................................52
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Automatic Type Promotion in Expressions ............................54
The Type Promotion Rules......................................54
Arrays ............................................................55
One-Dimensional Arrays.......................................55
Multidimensional Arrays .......................................58
Alternative Array Declaration Syntax ............................62
Introducing Type Inference with Local Variables.......................62
Some var Restrictions..........................................64
A Few Words About Strings .........................................65
Chapter 4 Operators ......................................................67
Arithmetic Operators...............................................67
The Basic Arithmetic Operators.................................68
The Modulus Operator.........................................69
Arithmetic Compound Assignment Operators....................69
Increment and Decrement......................................70
The Bitwise Operators ..............................................72
The Bitwise Logical Operators ..................................73
The Left Shift .................................................75
The Right Shift ................................................77
The Unsigned Right Shift.......................................78
Bitwise Operator Compound Assignments .......................79
Relational Operators................................................80
Boolean Logical Operators ..........................................81
Short-Circuit Logical Operators.................................83
The Assignment Operator...........................................83
The ? Operator.....................................................84
Operator Precedence ...............................................85
Using Parentheses..................................................85
Chapter 5 Control Statements..............................................87
Java’s Selection Statements ..........................................87
if ...........................................................87
The Traditional switch .........................................90
Iteration Statements ................................................95
while.........................................................95
do-while......................................................97
for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
The For-Each Version of the for Loop ...........................103
Local Variable Type Inference in a for Loop......................108
Nested Loops ................................................109
Jump Statements ..................................................109
Using break..................................................109
Using continue...............................................113
return.......................................................115
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