This is an advanced Java™ Programming training course teaches Java developers the latest advanced Java language skills.

With the advent of Java 5 and Java 6, the language has seen profound improvements of which not all developers are aware. This course highlights those improvements, as well as delving into a range of topics that an experienced Java developer needs, such as design patterns, performance (JVM, Garbage collection,memory leak, profiling etc), concurrency and refactoring issues: skills that underpin best Java development project practice worldwide.

Applying OO Concepts with Java

• Objects and Messages
• Encapsulation, minimizing accessibility and mutability
• Polymorphism
• Subtyping and Subclassing
• Composition versus Inheritance
• Design patterns with Java - an overview
• Structural patterns
  • The Composition pattern
  • The Adapter pattern
  • The Bridge pattern
  • The Decorator Pattern

Effective Java

• Creating and destroying Objects
• Creational Design Patterns
  • The Factory Method provides
  • The Abstract Factory Method
  • The Builder Pattern
  • The Prototype Pattern
  • The Singleton Pattern

• Common Methods and why they are important
  • equals and hashCode
  • toString
  • cloning, deep and shallow copying
  • comparing object

• Managing object behavior with patterns
  • Events and changes
  • The chain of responsibility
  • The Observer pattern
  • The Mediator defines
  • The Chain of Responsibility
  • The Command pattern

• Managing Object State and Function
  • The Visitor pattern adds function to a class
  • The State pattern

• Generics
  • Implementing typesafe heterogeneous containers
  • Generic types and methods
  • Lists versus arrays, foreach versus other loops
  • The Iterator pattern 

• Enums and Annotations
  • Annotations versus Naming patterns
  • Defining your own annotations

• Exceptions
  • Exceptions for exceptional conditions
  • Programming errors
  • Recoverable conditions
  • Unnecessary usages
  • Standard versus Custom exceptions
  • Documenting Exceptions
  • Capturing failure information
  • Ignored exceptions

• Concurrency
  • Accessing shared mutable data
  • Effective use of synchronization
  • Executors, tasks and threads
  • Lazy initialization and concurrency

Refactoring Java Code

• The basics of refactoring: Detect, characterize, design, modify
• When to refactor
• Tools
• Moving a class
• Extracting methods
• Extracting supertypes
• Conditionals vs Polymorphism

 

4.5 days

Instructor Lead