Complete java 2 certification study guide

This revised edition of the market-leading The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide offers new information on the developer exam, additional practice questions in the book and on the CD, and bonus coverage of Sun's partner certifications from IBM, Oracle, and Netscape. This Study Guide is the ultimate authority for both the programmer and the developer exams -- the lead author actually helped to develop the exams for Sun. The book is organized according to the official exam objectives and contains hundreds of review and sample-test questions.

Introduction	p. xxvii
Part I The Programmer's Exam	p. 1
Chapter 1 Language Fundamentals	p. 3
Source Files	p. 4
Keywords and Identifiers	p. 5
Primitive Data Types	p. 7
Literals	p. 10
Arrays	p. 12
Class Fundamentals	p. 15
Argument Passing	p. 18
Garbage Collection	p. 21
Chapter Summary	p. 24
Test Yourself	p. 26
Chapter 2 Operators and Assignments	p. 31
Evaluation Order	p. 33
The Unary Operators	p. 34
The Arithmetic Operators	p. 38
The Shift Operators: [[, ]], and ]]]	p. 45
The Comparison Operators	p. 51
The Bitwise Operators: and, ^, and \|	p. 56
The Short-Circuit Logical Operators	p. 61
The Conditional Operator: ?:	p. 64
The Assignment Operators	p. 65
Chapter Summary	p. 67
Test Yourself	p. 70
Chapter 3 Modifiers	p. 75
Modifier Overview	p. 76
The Access Modifiers	p. 76
Other Modifiers	p. 84
Modifiers and Features	p. 94
Chapter Summary	p. 95
Test Yourself	p. 96
Chapter 4 Converting and Casting	p. 103
Explicit and Implicit Type Changes	p. 104
Primitives and Conversion	p. 105
Primitives and Casting	p. 112
Object Reference Conversion	p. 114
Object Reference Casting	p. 119
Chapter Summary	p. 125
Test Yourself	p. 126
Chapter 5 Flow Control and Exceptions	p. 133
The Loop Constructs	p. 134
The Selection Statements	p. 142
Exceptions	p. 144
Chapter Summary	p. 157
Test Yourself	p. 160
Chapter 6 Objects and Classes	p. 169
Benefits of Object-Oriented Implementation	p. 170
Implementing Object-Oriented Relationships	p. 173
Overloading and Overriding	p. 174
Constructors and Subclassing	p. 184
Inner Classes	p. 188
Chapter Summary	p. 200
Test Yourself	p. 204
Chapter 7 Threads	p. 211
Thread Fundamentals	p. 212
Controlling Threads	p. 218
Monitors, wait(), and notify()	p. 226
Chapter Summary	p. 241
Test Yourself	p. 243
Chapter 8 The java.lang and java.util Packages	p. 247
The Object Class	p. 248
The Math Class	p. 249
The Wrapper Classes	p. 251
Strings	p. 255
The Collections API	p. 264
Chapter Summary	p. 276
Test Yourself	p. 277
Chapter 9 Layout Managers	p. 281
Why Java Uses Layout Managers	p. 283
Layout Manager Theory	p. 284
Layout Policies	p. 292
Controlling the Cell Size for a Component	p. 325
GridBag's Shorthand	p. 329
Other Layout Options	p. 332
Improving Your Chances	p. 333
Chapter Summary	p. 333
Test Yourself	p. 334
Chapter 10 Events	p. 345
Motivation for the Event Delegation Model	p. 346
The Event Class Hierarchy	p. 347
Semantic Events	p. 349
Event Listeners	p. 350
Explicit Event Enabling	p. 354
Adapters	p. 356
Action Commands	p. 358
Chapter Summary	p. 360
Test Yourself	p. 361
Chapter 11 Components	p. 367
Components in General	p. 368
The Visual Components	p. 370
The Container Components	p. 386
The Menu Components	p. 390
Chapter Summary	p. 393
Test Yourself	p. 394
Chapter 12 Painting	p. 399
The paint() Method and the Graphics Context	p. 400
The GUI Thread and the repaint() Method	p. 420
Images	p. 426
Chapter Summary	p. 431
Test Yourself	p. 432
Chapter 13 Input and Output	p. 437
File Input and Output	p. 438
Streams, Readers, and Writers	p. 448
Sockets	p. 465
Chapter Summary	p. 469
Test Yourself	p. 470
Part II The Developer's Exam	p. 475
Chapter 14 Taking the Developer's Exam	p. 477
Are You Ready for the Exam?	p. 479
Formalities of the Exam	p. 481
Chapter 15 Assignment: Room Reservation System	p. 491
Structure of the Assignment	p. 492
Business Scenario	p. 494
Project Specifics	p. 495
Code and APIs Provided	p. 495
Functional Goals	p. 497
Other Requirements	p. 502
Chapter 16 Enhancing and Extending the Database	p. 507
Two-Tier Databases	p. 508
Designing a Basic Scheme	p. 510
Issues in Implementation	p. 521
Chapter Summary	p. 533
Chapter 17 Writing the Network Protocol	p. 535
Client-Server from Scratch	p. 537
Remote Method Invocation (RMI)	p. 555
More on Threads	p. 565
Chapter Summary	p. 573
Chapter 18 Designing the User Interface	p. 575
Defining the GUI's Requirements	p. 577
Using Swing	p. 582
Using Layout Managers	p. 588
Event Handling and Style	p. 597
Event Handling and Threads	p. 601
Chapter Summary	p. 603
Chapter 19 A Second Example: A Trouble-Ticket System	p. 605
More on Exam Requirements	p. 607
Assignment: Build a Trouble-Ticket System	p. 609
GUI Development	p. 612
Database/Server Development	p. 613
Client-Server Logic	p. 615
Delivering the Finished Assignment	p. 616
Chapter 20 GUI Prototyping	p. 617
Events and Properties	p. 618
Building a JTable	p. 625
Building a JTree	p. 634
JMenus, JButtons, and Actions	p. 640
Panes	p. 643
Final Thoughts on Code Style	p. 647
Chapter 21 Building the Database Server	p. 651
Database Requirements	p. 652
Record Locking	p. 667
Chapter Summary	p. 670
Chapter 22 Connecting Client and Server	p. 671
Notification Basics	p. 673
Using JavaBean Conventions	p. 676
Remote Notification	p. 683
Using Distributed Notification	p. 685
Chapter Summary	p. 686
Chapter 23 Preparing the Upload	p. 689
Submission Requirements	p. 690
Using javadoc	p. 692
File Structure	p. 693
Writing the README file	p. 695
Using the jar Tool	p. 696
Chapter Summary	p. 698
Chapter 24 Thinking About the Follow-Up Exam	p. 699
Preparation Questions	p. 700
Chapter Summary	p. 711
Part III Appendices	p. 713
Appendix A Answers to Test Yourself Questions	p. 715
Appendix B Programmer's Final Exam	p. 803
Appendix C Using the Test Program	p. 839
The Real Test	p. 840
The Supporting Instructions	p. 842
The Tester	p. 844
Running the Tester	p. 846
Answering the Questions	p. 847
Appendix D The Certification Initiative for Enterprise Development	p. 849
The Structure of the Initiative	p. 850
The Second-Level Exams	p. 851
The Third-Level Exams	p. 861
Index	p. 867

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