Java SE 8 Programming II (Advanced)

Review of Java Basics

• Dates, Times and Locales
• Dealing with Time Zones and Daylight Savings
• Formatting Dates and Times
• Properties Files
• Resource Bundles

Dates Times Locales and Resource Bundles

• Identifiers and Keywords
• Define Classes
• Define Interfaces
• Use Interfaces
• Declare Class Members
• Declare and Use enums

Input Output and NIO

• Encapsulation
• File Navigation and I/O
• Files, Path, and Paths
• Serialization

Generics and Collections

• Override hashCode(), equals(), and toString()
• Collections Overview
• Use the Collections Framework
• Generic Types

Lambda Expressions and Functional Interfaces

• Using Built-in Functional Interfaces
• Primitive Versions of Predicate Interface
• Binary Versions of Functional Interfaces
• The UnaryOperator Interface

Streams

• Collection Streams and Filters
• The Stream Pipeline
• Search Data from a Stream
• The Optional class
• Stream Data Methods and Calculation Methods
• Sort a Collection Using Stream API
• Using  flatMap Method in Stream
• Map-Filter-Reduce with average() and Optionals

Threads

• Defining and Instantiating Threads
• Thread States and Transitions
• Synchronizing Code, Thread Problems
• Thread Interaction

Concurrency

• Apply Atomic Variables and Locks
• Use java.util.concurrent Collections
• Use Executors and ThreadPools
• Use the Parallel Fork/Join Framework
• Parallel Streams

Data Access with JDBC

• Introduction to JDBC
• Connecting to a Database
• Submitting Queries and Reading Results from the Database
• Updating the Database