Programming in Java

Review of Java Basics

• Primitive types and wrapper classes
• Declarations, expressions, instructions
• Blocks, conditional structures and loops
• The enumerations
• Exception handling
• Annotations

Object Oriented Programming concepts

• Classes and instances
• Encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism
• Overriding methods
• Type comparison, casting
• hashCode(), equals(), finalize() and toString()

Java Utility classes

• String, StringBuilder and StringBuffer
• Local dates and times. Time zones and daylight saving time.
• Byte and character streams.
• Manipulate files. API NIO 2.
• The Collections framework

Java Platform Module System (JPMS)

• The interest of the modules
• The syntax of module-info.java
• Compile and run a modular application
• Services and Reflection
• Interoperate with old libraries

Functional programming

• Lambda expressions
• Method references
• Functional interfaces
• Stream API
• Suppliers, Consumers, Predicates and Functions

Multi-threading and Concurrency

• Processes and threads
• Control the execution of a thread
• The high-level java.util.concurrent API
• Use Executors and ThreadPools
• Asynchronous programming
• Thread-safe collections

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

• Architecture of JDBC
• Connecting to a database
• Perform database queries
• Use of stored procedures
• Transaction management