• Learn and work with generic types and collections

• Understand the wild card and bounded features within generics

• Read and write inner classes & understand where to apply them

• Understand multithreading in Java

• Learn how concurrency works in the Java platform

• Use the various Java threading libraries

• How to implement robust multithreaded applications

• Understand the structure of a class file

• Use the reflection API to interact with a class file

• Create and use Java annotations

• Create single threaded and multithreaded servers using sockets

• Create server client applications using sockets

Course Details

Introduction to Generics

•     Java collections Framework

•     Lists, Sets and Maps

•     Traversing Collections

•     Iterable

•     Utility methods for collections

Advanced Generics

•     Defining Generic Types

•     Comparison and Ordering

•     Writing Generic Methods

•     Type wildcards

•     Bounded type wildcards

•     Bounded type parameters

•     Multiple bounds

Inner Classes

•     What are inner classes

•     Nested classes

•     Member classes

•     Local classes

•     Anonymous classes

Enumerated Types

•     The int Enum pattern

•     The Java enum

•     Iteration and switching

•     Adding data and methods

•     Constant specific class bodies

Introducing Java Threads

•     Threads and Runnables

•     Creating Threads

•     Thread termination and cancellation

•     Thread Scheduling

•     Thread Groups

•     Threads and Exceptions

Synchronization

•     Why worry about synchronization?

•     Basic monitor functionality

•     Memory model and data visibility

•     Lock objects

•     Atomic data types

•     Synchronizing execution

•     Producer consumer problem and solutions

•     Condition objects

•     Semaphores

•     Latches

•     Cyclic barriers

High Level Concurrency Support

•     The java.util.concurrent library

•     Concurrent collections

•     Queues and Synchronization

•     Task Management

•     Executor Framework and Thread Pools

•     Tasks, Callables, and Future Objects

•     The Completion Service

The Reflection API

•     Inside Java classes

•     Class file structure

•     Reflection

•     Accessing Fields, Methods and Constructors

•     Reflective object creation

•     Reflectie method invocation

•     Security

Annotations

•     Source code metadata

•     Java Annotations

•     Built in annotations

•     Defining annotation types

•     Annotating an annotation type

•     Annotation processing

Working with Sockets

•     Creating a ServerSocket

•     Creating a Client

•     Working with streams

•     Strategies for Creating multithreaded servers

Who Should Attend

IT professionals who already have some Java experience and are looking to further their skills or resolve any issues they may have with the more complex areas of its use.