Core Java for the Impatient. 4 Ed

About This eBook....3 Preface....15 Acknowledgments....18 1. Fundamental Programming Structures....19 1.1. Our First Program....20 1.2. Primitive Types....41 1.3. Variables....48 1.4. Arithmetic Operations....55 1.5. Strings....70 1.6. Input and Output....94 1.7. Control Flow....106 1.8. Arrays and Array Lists....124 1.9. Functional Decomposition....146 Exercises....151 2. Object-Oriented Programming....155 2.1. Working with Objects....156 2.2. Implementing Classes....165 2.3. Object Construction....176 2.4. Records....186 2.5. Static Variables and Methods....193 2.6. Packages....202 2.7. Nested Classes....217 2.8. Documentation Comments....228 Exercises....240 3. Interfaces and Lambda Expressions....245 3.1. Interfaces....246 3.2. Static, Default, and Private Methods....264 3.3. Examples of Interfaces....274 3.4. Lambda Expressions....284 3.5. Method and Constructor References....291 3.6. Processing Lambda Expressions....297 3.7. Lambda Expressions and Variable Scope....307 3.8. Higher-Order Functions....315 3.9. Local and Anonymous Classes....319 Exercises....323 4. Inheritance and Reflection....327 4.1. Extending a Class....329 4.2. Inheritance Hierarchies....342 4.3. Object: The Cosmic Superclass....356 4.4. Enumerations....378 4.5. Pattern Matching....387 4.6. Runtime Type Information and Resources....399 4.7. Reflection....422 Exercises....440 5. Exceptions, Assertions, and Logging....444 5.1. Exception Handling....445 5.2. Assertions....469 5.3. Logging....473 Exercises....495 6. Generic Programming....500 6.1. Generic Classes....501 6.2. Generic Methods....503 6.3. Type Bounds....505 6.4. Type Variance and Wildcards....507 6.5. Generics in the Java Virtual Machine....519 6.6. Restrictions on Generics....525 6.7. Reflection and Generics....540 Exercises....546 7. Collections....553 7.1. An Overview of the Collections Framework....553 7.2. Iterators....571 7.3. Sets....574 7.4. Maps....579 7.5. Other Collections....593 7.6. Views....606 Exercises....612 8. Streams....616 8.1. From Iterating to Stream Operations....617 8.2. Stream Creation....620 8.3. The filter, map, and flatMap Methods....627 8.4. Extracting Substreams and Combining Streams....631 8.5. Other Stream Transformations....633 8.6. Simple Reductions....635 8.7. The Optional Type....637 8.8. Collecting Results....648 8.9. Collecting into Maps....651 8.10. Grouping and Partitioning....654 8.11. Downstream Collectors....656 8.12. Reduction Operations....661 8.13. Primitive Type Streams....665 8.14. Parallel Streams....668 Exercises....675 9. Processing Input and Output....679 9.1. Input/Output Streams, Readers, and Writers....680 9.2. Paths, Files, and Directories....703 9.3. HTTP Connections....720 9.4. Regular Expressions....728 9.5. Serialization....751 Exercises....773 10. Concurrent Programming....777 10.1. Concurrent Tasks....779 10.2. Thread Safety....792 10.3. Threadsafe Data Structures....804 10.4. Parallel Algorithms....815 10.5. Asynchronous Computations....818 10.6. Atomic Counters and Accumulators....833 10.7. Locks and Conditions....839 10.8. Threads....850 10.9. Processes....857 Exercises....866 11. Annotations....877 11.1. Using Annotations....879 11.2. Defining Annotations....890 11.3. Annotations in the Java API....895 11.4. Processing Annotations at Runtime....907 11.5. Source-Level Annotation Processing....913 Exercises....922 12. The Java Platform Module System....924 12.1. The Module Concept....925 12.2. Naming Modules....928 12.3. The Modular “Hello, World!” Program....930 12.4. Requiring Modules....933 12.5. Exporting Packages....937 12.6. Modules and Reflective Access....943 12.7. Modular JARs....949 12.8. Automatic Modules....952 12.9. The Unnamed Module....955 12.10. Command-Line Flags for Migration....956 12.11. Transitive and Static Requirements....959 12.12. Qualified Exporting and Opening....963 12.13. Service Loading....964 12.14. Tools for Working with Modules....967 Exercises....971 Index....974