Head First Java 2nd Edition-1-100

Table of Contents
Dedication.............................................................................................................................. 2
What they're saying about Head First..................................................................................... 3
Praise for Head First Java............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Praise for other Head First books co-authored by Kathy and Bert................................................................................................................................................ 3
Other related books from O'Reilly.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Intro....................................................................................................................................... 7
Who is this book for?....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
We know what you're thinking........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
And we know what your brain is thinking...................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Metacognition: thinking about thinking......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Here's what WE did:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Here's what YOU can do to bend your brain into submission........................................................................................................................................................ 7
What you need for this book:.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Last-minute things you need to know:............................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Technical Editors............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Other people to credit:..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Just when you thought there wouldn't be any more acknowledgements....................................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 1. Breaking the Surface............................................................................................ 19
Section 1.1. The Way Java Works.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Section 1.2. What you'll do in Java................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Section 1.3. A very brief history of Java........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Section 1.4. Sharpen your pencil................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Section 1.5. Sharpen your pencil answers..................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Section 1.6. Code structure in Java............................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
Section 1.7. Anatomy of a class...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Section 1.8. Writing a class with a main........................................................................................................................................................................................ 27
Section 1.9. What can you say in the main method?.................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Section 1.10. Looping and looping and......................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Section 1.11. there are no Dumb Questions.................................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Section 1.12. Conditional branching.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Section 1.13. Coding a Serious Business Application.................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Section 1.14. Monday morning at Bob's........................................................................................................................................................................................ 33
Section 1.15. Phrase-O-Matic........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 35
Section 1.16. Fireside Chats........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Section 1.17. Exercise: Code Magnets........................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
Section 1.18. Exercise: BE The compiler....................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 1.19. JavaCross 7.0........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Section 1.20. Mixed Messages....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Section 1.21. Pool Puzzle................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42
Section 1.22. Exercise Solutins: Code Magnets:........................................................................................................................................................................... 43
Chapter 2. A Trip to Objectville............................................................................................. 45
Section 2.1. Chair Wars................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 46
Section 2.2. Brain Power................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 51
Section 2.3. Making your first object............................................................................................................................................................................................ 54
Section 2.4. Making and testing Movie objects............................................................................................................................................................................. 55
Section 2.5. Quick! Get out of main!............................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Section 2.6. Running the Guessing Game..................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Section 2.7. Who am I?.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 63
Chapter 3. Know Your Variables........................................................................................... 67
Section 3.1. Declaring a variable................................................................................................................................................................................................... 68
Section 3.2. "I'd like a double mocha, no, make it an int."........................................................................................................................................................... 69
Section 3.3. You really don't want to spill that............................................................................................................................................................................. 70
Section 3.4. Back away from that keyword!.................................................................................................................................................................................. 71
Section 3.5. This table reserved..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Section 3.6. Controlling your Dog object...................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
Section 3.7. An object reference is just another variable value.................................................................................................................................................... 73
Section 3.8. There are no Dumb Question.................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Section 3.9. Java Exposed............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 74
Section 3.10. Life on the garbage-collectible heap........................................................................................................................................................................ 75
Section 3.11. Life and death on the heap....................................................................................................................................................................................... 76
Section 3.12. An array is like a tray of cups................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
Section 3.13. Arrays are objects too............................................................................................................................................................................................... 77
Section 3.14. Make an array of Dogs............................................................................................................................................................................................. 78
Section 3.15. Control your Dog...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Section 3.16. A Dog example......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 80
Section 3.17. Exercise: BE the compiler........................................................................................................................................................................................ 81
Section 3.19. Pool Puzzle............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 83
Section 3.20. A Heap o' Trouble................................................................................................................................................................................................... 84
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Section 3.21. Five-Minute Mystery............................................................................................................................................................................................... 85
Section 3.22. Exercise Solutions: Code Magnets.......................................................................................................................................................................... 86
Section 3.23. Puzzle Solutions....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 87
Chapter 4. How Objects Behave............................................................................................ 89
Section 4.1. Remember: a class describes what an object knows and what an object does........................................................................................................ 90
Section 4.2. The size affects the bark............................................................................................................................................................................................. 91
Section 4.3. You can send things to a method.............................................................................................................................................................................. 92
Section 4.4. You can get things back from a method.................................................................................................................................................................... 93
Section 4.5. You can send more than one thing to a method....................................................................................................................................................... 94
Section 4.6. there are no Dumb Questions................................................................................................................................................................................... 96
Section 4.7. Reminder: Java cares about type!............................................................................................................................................................................. 96
Section 4.8. Cool things you can do with parameters and return types....................................................................................................................................... 97
Section 4.9. Encapsulation............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 98
Section 4.10. Encapsulating the GoodDog class......................................................................................................................................................................... 100
Section 4.11. How do objects in an array behave?....................................................................................................................................................................... 101
Section 4.12. Declaring and initializing instance variables........................................................................................................................................................ 102
Section 4.13. The difference between instance and local variables............................................................................................................................................ 103
Section 4.14. there are no Dumb Questions................................................................................................................................................................................ 103
Section 4.15. Comparing variables (primitives or references).................................................................................................................................................... 104
Section 4.16. Exercise: BE the compiler...................................................................................................................................................................................... 106
Section 4.17. Who am I?............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 107
Section 4.18. Mixed Messages..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108
Section 4.19. Pool Puzzle............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 109
Section 4.20. Five Minute Mystery.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 110
Section 4.21. Puzzle Solutions...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 112
Chapter 5. Extra-Strength Methods..................................................................................... 113
Section 5.1. Let's build a Battleship-style game: "Sink a Dot Com"............................................................................................................................................ 114
Section 5.2. First, a high-level design.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 115
Section 5.3. The "Simple Dot Com Game" a gentler introduction.............................................................................................................................................. 116
Section 5.4. Developing a Class.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 117
Section 5.5. BRAIN POWER........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 117
Section 5.6. There are no Dumb Questions................................................................................................................................................................................. 121
Section 5.7. There are no Dumb Questions................................................................................................................................................................................. 124
Section 5.8. Exercise: BE the JVM.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 136
Section 5.10. Java Cross............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 138
Section 5.11. Exercise Solutions................................................................................................................................................................................................... 140
Chapter 6. Using the Java Library....................................................................................... 143
Section 6.1. In our last chapter, we left you with the cliff-hanger. A bug................................................................................................................................... 144
Section 6.2. So what happened?.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 145
Section 6.3. How do we fix it?...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 146
Section 6.4. Option one is too clunky.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 147
Section 6.5. Option two is a little better, but still pretty clunky................................................................................................................................................. 147
Section 6.6. Wake up and smell the library................................................................................................................................................................................. 150
Section 6.7. Some things you can do with ArrayList................................................................................................................................................................... 151
Section 6.9. Java Exposed............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 153
Section 6.10. Comparing ArrayList to a regular array................................................................................................................................................................ 154
Section 6.11. Comparing ArrayList to a regular array................................................................................................................................................................. 155
Section 6.12. Let's fix the DotCom code...................................................................................................................................................................................... 156
Section 6.13. New and improved DotCom class.......................................................................................................................................................................... 157
Section 6.14. Let's build the REAL game: "Sink a Dot Com"...................................................................................................................................................... 158
Section 6.15. What needs to change?........................................................................................................................................................................................... 159
Section 6.16. Who does what in the DotComBust game (and when)......................................................................................................................................... 160
Section 6.17. Prep code for the real DotComBust class............................................................................................................................................................... 162
Section 6.18. The final version of the Dotcom class.................................................................................................................................................................... 168
Section 6.19. Super Powerful Boolean Expressions.................................................................................................................................................................... 169
Section 6.20. Ready-bake Code................................................................................................................................................................................................... 170
Section 6.21. Ready-bake Code.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 171
Section 6.22. Using the Library (the Java API)........................................................................................................................................................................... 172
Section 6.23. You have to know the full name of the class you want to use in your code.......................................................................................................... 173
Section 6.26. How to play with the API....................................................................................................................................................................................... 176
Section 6.27. Code Magnets......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 179
Section 6.28. JavaCross 7.0......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 180
Section 6.29. Exercise Solutions.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 181
Section 6.30. JavaCross answers................................................................................................................................................................................................. 182
Chapter 7. Better Living in Objectville................................................................................. 183
Section 7.1. Chair Wars Revisited................................................................................................................................................................................................ 184
Section 7.2. BRAIN POWER........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 185
Section 7.5. brain power.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 206
Section 7.6. there are no Dumb Questions................................................................................................................................................................................. 207
Section 7.7. Exercise: Mixed Messages....................................................................................................................................................................................... 210
Section 7.8. Exercise BE the Compiler......................................................................................................................................................................................... 211
Section 7.9. Exercise Solutions: BE the Compiler....................................................................................................................................................................... 213
Chapter 8. Serious Polymorphism....................................................................................... 215
Section 8.1. Did we forget about something when we designed this?........................................................................................................................................ 216
Section 8.2. BRAIN POWER....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 220
Section 8.4. Pool Puzzle.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 250
Section 8.5. Exercise Solutions.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 251
Chapter 9. Life and Death of an Object................................................................................ 253
Section 9.1. The Stack and the Heap: where things live............................................................................................................................................................. 254
Section 9.2. Methods are stacked................................................................................................................................................................................................ 255
Section 9.3. What about local variables that are objects?.......................................................................................................................................................... 256
Section 9.5. If local variables live on the stack, where do instance variables live?.................................................................................................................... 257
Section 9.6. The miracle of object creation................................................................................................................................................................................. 258
Section 9.7. Construct a Duck..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 260
Section 9.8. Initializing the state of a new Duck......................................................................................................................................................................... 261
Section 9.10. Using the constructor to initialize important Duck state..................................................................................................................................... 262
Section 9.11. Make it easy to make a Duck.................................................................................................................................................................................. 263
Section 9.12. Doesn't the compiler always make a no-arg constructor for you? No!................................................................................................................. 264
Section 9.15. Wait a minute... we never DID talk about superclasses and inheritance and how that all fits in with constructors.......................................... 268
Section 9.16. Making a Hippo means making the Animal and Object parts too....................................................................................................................... 270
Section 9.17. How do you invoke a superclass constructor?....................................................................................................................................................... 271
Section 9.18. Can the child exist before the parents?................................................................................................................................................................. 272
Section 9.19. Superclass constructors with arguments............................................................................................................................................................... 273
Section 9.20. Invoking one overloaded constructor from another............................................................................................................................................ 274
Section 9.21. Now we know how an object is born, but how long does an object live?............................................................................................................. 276
Section 9.22. What about reference variables?........................................................................................................................................................................... 278
Chapter 10. Numbers Matter............................................................................................... 291
Section 10.1. MATH methods: as close as you'll ever get to a global method............................................................................................................................ 292
Section 10.2. The difference between regular (non-static) and static methods......................................................................................................................... 293
Section 10.3. What it means to have a class with static methods............................................................................................................................................... 294
Section 10.4. Static methods can't use non-static (instance) variables!.................................................................................................................................... 295
Section 10.5. Static methods can't use non-static methods, either!........................................................................................................................................... 296
Section 10.6. Static variable: value is the same for ALL instances of the class.......................................................................................................................... 297
Section 10.7. Initializing a static variable................................................................................................................................................................................... 299
Section 10.8. static final variables are constants........................................................................................................................................................................ 300
Section 10.9. final isn't just for static variables........................................................................................................................................................................... 301
Section 10.10. there are no Dumb Questions............................................................................................................................................................................. 302
Section 10.11. Math methods...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 304
Section 10.12. Wrapping a primitive........................................................................................................................................................................................... 305
Section 10.13. Before Java 5.0, YOU had to do the work........................................................................................................................................................... 306
Section 10.14. Autoboxing: blurring the line bet ween primitive and object............................................................................................................................. 307
Section 10.15. Autoboxing works almost everywhere................................................................................................................................................................ 308
Section 10.16. But wait! There's more! Wrappers have static utility methods too!................................................................................................................... 310
Section 10.17. And now in reverse... turning a primitive number into a String.......................................................................................................................... 311
Section 10.18. Number formatting.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 312
Section 10.19. Formatting deconstructed.................................................................................................................................................................................... 313
Section 10.20. The percent (%) says, "insert argument here" (and format it using these instructions)................................................................................... 314
Section 10.21. The format String uses its own little language syntax......................................................................................................................................... 315
Section 10.22. The format specifier............................................................................................................................................................................................. 316
Section 10.23. The only required specifier is for TYPE............................................................................................................................................................... 317
Section 10.24. What happens if I have more than one argument?............................................................................................................................................. 318
Section 10.25. So much for numbers, what about dates?........................................................................................................................................................... 319
Section 10.26. Working with Dates............................................................................................................................................................................................. 320
Section 10.27. Moving backward and for ward in time............................................................................................................................................................... 321
Section 10.28. Getting an object that extends Calendar............................................................................................................................................................. 322
Section 10.29. Working with Calendar objects........................................................................................................................................................................... 323
Section 10.30. Highlights of the Calendar API........................................................................................................................................................................... 324
Section 10.31. Even more Statics!... static imports..................................................................................................................................................................... 325
Section 10.32. Lunar Code Magnets........................................................................................................................................................................................... 330
Chapter 11. Risky Behavior.................................................................................................. 333
Section 11.1. Let's make a Music Machine................................................................................................................................................................................... 334
Section 11.2. We'll start with the basics....................................................................................................................................................................................... 335
Section 11.3. First we need a Sequencer...................................................................................................................................................................................... 336
Section 11.4. Something's wrong!................................................................................................................................................................................................ 336
Section 11.5. What happens when a method you want to call (probably in a class you didn't write) is risky?......................................................................... 337
Section 11.6. Methods in Java use exceptions to tell the calling code, "Some thing Bad Happened. I failed."......................................................................... 338
Section 11.7. The compiler needs to know that YOU know you're calling a risky method........................................................................................................ 339
Section 11.8. An exception is an object… of type Exception....................................................................................................................................................... 340
Section 11.9. If it's your code that catches the exception, then whose code throws it?.............................................................................................................. 341
Section 11.10. there are no Dumb Questions.............................................................................................................................................................................. 342
Section 11.11. Flow control in try/catch blocks........................................................................................................................................................................... 344
Section 11.12. Finally: for the things you want to do no matter what........................................................................................................................................ 345
Section 11.13. Sharpen your pencil:Flow Control....................................................................................................................................................................... 346
Section 11.14. Did we mention that a method can throw more than one exception?................................................................................................................ 347
Section 11.15. Exceptions are polymorphic................................................................................................................................................................................. 348
Section 11.16. Multiple catch blocks must be ordered from smallest to biggest........................................................................................................................ 350
Section 11.17. You can't put bigger baskets above smaller baskets............................................................................................................................................. 351
Section 11.18. Sharpen your pencil.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 352
Section 11.19. When you don't want to handle an exception…................................................................................................................................................... 353
Section 11.20. Ducking (by declaring) only delays the inevitable.............................................................................................................................................. 354
Section 11.21. Getting back to our music code…......................................................................................................................................................................... 356
Section 11.22. Code Kitchen......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 357
Section 11.23. Making actual sound............................................................................................................................................................................................ 358
Section 11.24. Your very first sound player app.......................................................................................................................................................................... 360
Section 11.25. Making a MidiEvent (song data).......................................................................................................................................................................... 361
Section 11.26. MIDI message: the heart of a MidiEvent............................................................................................................................................................. 362
Section 11.27. Anatomy of a message.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 362
Section 11.28. Version 2: Using command-line args to experiment with sounds...................................................................................................................... 364
Section 11.29. Exercise: True or False......................................................................................................................................................................................... 366
Section 11.30. Exercise: Code Magnets....................................................................................................................................................................................... 367
Section 11.31. JavaCross 7.0........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 368
Section 11.32. Exercise Solutions: True or False........................................................................................................................................................................ 369
Section 11.33. Code Magnets....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 369
Section 11.34. JavaCross Answers............................................................................................................................................................................................... 370
Chapter 12. A Very Graphic.................................................................................................. 371
Section 12.1. It all starts with a window...................................................................................................................................................................................... 372
Section 12.2. Your first GUI: a button on a frame...................................................................................................................................................................... 373
Section 12.3. Getting a user event............................................................................................................................................................................................... 375
Section 12.4. Getting a button's ActionEvent............................................................................................................................................................................. 378
Section 12.5. There are no Dumb Questions.............................................................................................................................................................................. 380
Section 12.6. Make your own drawing widget............................................................................................................................................................................ 382
Section 12.7. Because life's too short to paint the circle a solid color when there's a gradient blend waiting for you.............................................................. 385
Section 12.8. BULLET POINTS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 386
Section 12.9. We can get an event............................................................................................................................................................................................... 387
Section 12.10. Let's try it with TWO buttons.............................................................................................................................................................................. 390
Section 12.11. Java Exposed: This weeks interview: Instance of an Inner Class....................................................................................................................... 398
Section 12.12. There are no Dumb Questions............................................................................................................................................................................. 400
Section 12.13. Code Kitchen........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 404
Section 12.14. Exercise: Who am I?............................................................................................................................................................................................. 412
Section 12.15. Exercise: BE the compiler..................................................................................................................................................................................... 413
Section 12.16. Pool Puzzle............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 414
Section 12.17. Exercise Solutions: Who am I?............................................................................................................................................................................. 415
Section 12.18. Pool Puzzle............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 416
Chapter 13. Work on Your Swing......................................................................................... 417
Section 13.1. Swing components.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 418
Section 13.2. Layout Managers.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 419
Section 13.3. How does the layout manager decide?.................................................................................................................................................................. 420
Section 13.4. The Big Three layout managers: border, flow, and box........................................................................................................................................ 421
Section 13.6. Playing with Swing components............................................................................................................................................................................ 431
Section 13.8. Code Kitchen.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 436
Section 13.9. Making the BeatBox............................................................................................................................................................................................... 437
Section 13.10. Exercise: Which code goes with which layout?................................................................................................................................................... 442
Section 13.11. Code Fragments.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 443
Chapter 14. Saving Objects.................................................................................................. 447
Section 14.1. Capture the Beat..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 448
Section 14.2. Saving State............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 449
Section 14.3. Writing a serialized object to a file........................................................................................................................................................................ 450
Section 14.4. Data moves in streams from one place to another................................................................................................................................................ 451
Section 14.5. What really happens to an object when it's serialized?......................................................................................................................................... 452
Section 14.6. But what exactly IS an object's state? What needs to be saved?........................................................................................................................... 453
Section 14.7. If you want your class to be serializable, implement Serializable......................................................................................................................... 455
Section 14.9. Deserialization: restoring an object...................................................................................................................................................................... 459
Section 14.10. What happens during deserialization?............................................................................................................................................................... 460
Section 14.12. Saving and restoring the game characters........................................................................................................................................................... 462
Section 14.13. The GameCharacter class..................................................................................................................................................................................... 463
Section 14.14. Object Serialization.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 464
Section 14.15. Writing a String to a Text File.............................................................................................................................................................................. 465
Section 14.16. Text File Example: e-Flashcards.......................................................................................................................................................................... 466
Section 14.17. Quiz Card Builder (code outline)......................................................................................................................................................................... 467
Section 14.18. The java.io.File class............................................................................................................................................................................................ 470
Section 14.19. The beauty of buffers............................................................................................................................................................................................ 471
Section 14.20. Reading from a Text File..................................................................................................................................................................................... 472
Section 14.21. Quiz Card Player (code outline)........................................................................................................................................................................... 473
Section 14.22. Parsing with String split()................................................................................................................................................................................... 476
Section 14.24. Version ID: A Big Serialization Gotcha............................................................................................................................................................... 478
Section 14.25. Using the serialVersionUID................................................................................................................................................................................. 479
Section 14.26. Code Kitchen....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 480
Section 14.27. Saving a BeatBox pattern..................................................................................................................................................................................... 481
Section 14.28. Restoring a BeatBox pattern............................................................................................................................................................................... 482
Section 14.29. Sharpen your pencil: Can they be saved?........................................................................................................................................................... 483
Section 14.30. Exercise: True or False........................................................................................................................................................................................ 484
Section 14.31. Code Magnets....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 485
Section 14.32. Exercise Solutions............................................................................................................................................................................................... 486
Chapter 15. Make a Connection........................................................................................... 488
Section 15.1. Real-time Beat Box Chat........................................................................................................................................................................................ 489
Section 15.2. Connecting, Sending, and Receiving..................................................................................................................................................................... 491
Section 15.3. Make a network Socket connection....................................................................................................................................................................... 492
Section 15.4. A TCP port is just a number: A 16-bit number that identifies a specific program on the server......................................................................... 493
Section 15.5. To read data from a Socket, use a BufferedReader............................................................................................................................................... 495
Section 15.6. To write data to a Socket, use a PrintWriter......................................................................................................................................................... 496
Section 15.7. DailyAdviceClient code.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 498
Section 15.8. Writing a simple server......................................................................................................................................................................................... 500
Section 15.9. DailyAdviceServer code.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 501
Section 15.10. Writing a Chat Client........................................................................................................................................................................................... 503
Section 15.11. Java has multiple threads but only one Thread class.......................................................................................................................................... 507
Section 15.12. What does it mean to have more than one call stack?........................................................................................................................................ 508
Section 15.13. Every Thread needs a job to do: A method to put on the new thread stack........................................................................................................ 510
Section 15.14. To make a job for your thread, implement the Runnable interface..................................................................................................................... 511
Section 15.15. The Thread Scheduler........................................................................................................................................................................................... 514
Section 15.16. there are no Dumb Questions............................................................................................................................................................................... 517
Section 15.17. Putting a thread to sleep....................................................................................................................................................................................... 518
Section 15.18. Using sleep to make our program more predictable........................................................................................................................................... 519
Section 15.19. Making and starting two threads......................................................................................................................................................................... 520
Section 15.20. What will happen?............................................................................................................................................................................................... 520
Section 15.21. Um, yes. There IS a dark side. Threads can lead to concurrency 'issues'............................................................................................................ 521
Section 15.22. The Ryan and Monica problem, in code.............................................................................................................................................................. 523
Section 15.23. The Ryan and Monica example........................................................................................................................................................................... 524
Section 15.24. We need the makeWithdrawal ( ) method to run as one atomic thing............................................................................................................... 527
Section 15.25. Using an object's lock........................................................................................................................................................................................... 528
Section 15.26. The dreaded "Lost Update" problem................................................................................................................................................................... 529
Section 15.27. Let's run this code................................................................................................................................................................................................ 530
Section 15.28. Make the increment() method atomic. Synchronize it!...................................................................................................................................... 531
Section 15.30. The deadly side of synchronization..................................................................................................................................................................... 533
Section 15.31. New and improved SimpleChatClient.................................................................................................................................................................. 535
Section 15.32. Ready-bake Code: The really really simple Chat Server..................................................................................................................................... 537
Section 15.34. Code Kitchen........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 540
Section 15.35. Exercise: Code Magnets....................................................................................................................................................................................... 541
Section 15.36. Exercise Solutions................................................................................................................................................................................................ 543
Section 15.37. Five-Minute Mystery............................................................................................................................................................................................ 544
Chapter 16. Data structures................................................................................................ 546
Section 16.1. Tracking song popularity on your jukebox............................................................................................................................................................ 547
Section 16.2. Here's what you have so far, without the sort:...................................................................................................................................................... 548
Section 16.3. But the ArrayList class does NOT have a sort() method!..................................................................................................................................... 549
Section 16.4. ArrayList is not the only collection........................................................................................................................................................................ 550
Section 16.5. You could use a TreeSet... Or you could use the Collections.sort() method......................................................................................................... 551
Section 16.6. Adding Collections.sort() to the Jukebox code..................................................................................................................................................... 552
Section 16.7. But now you need Song objects, not just simple Strings....................................................................................................................................... 553
Section 16.8. Changing the Jukebox code to use Songs instead of Strings................................................................................................................................ 554
Section 16.9. It won't compile!.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 555
Section 16.10. The sort() method declaration............................................................................................................................................................................. 555
Section 16.11. Generics means more type-safety......................................................................................................................................................................... 557
Section 16.12. Learning generics................................................................................................................................................................................................. 558
Section 16.13. Using generic CLASSES....................................................................................................................................................................................... 559
Section 16.14. Using type parameters with ArrayList................................................................................................................................................................. 560
Section 16.15. Using generic METHODS..................................................................................................................................................................................... 561
Section 16.16. Here's where it gets weird.................................................................................................................................................................................... 562
Section 16.17. Revisiting the sort() method................................................................................................................................................................................ 564
Section 16.18. In generics, "extends" means "extends or implements"...................................................................................................................................... 565
Section 16.19. Finally we know what's wrong............................................................................................................................................................................. 566
Section 16.20. The new, improved, comparable Song class....................................................................................................................................................... 567
Section 16.21. We can sort the list, but....................................................................................................................................................................................... 568
Section 16.22. Using a custom comparator................................................................................................................................................................................. 569
Section 16.23. Updating the Jukebox to use a Comparator........................................................................................................................................................ 570
Section 16.24. Sharpen your pencil: Reverse Engineer.............................................................................................................................................................. 570
Section 16.25. Sharpen your pencil: Fill-in-the-blanks.............................................................................................................................................................. 572
Section 16.26. Uh-oh. The sorting all works, but now we have duplicates................................................................................................................................ 573
Section 16.27. We need a Set instead of a List............................................................................................................................................................................ 574
Section 16.28. The Collection API (part of it)............................................................................................................................................................................. 575
Section 16.29. Using a HashSet instead of ArrayList.................................................................................................................................................................. 576
Section 16.30. What makes two objects equal?........................................................................................................................................................................... 577
Section 16.31. How a HashSet checks for duplicates: hashCode() and equals()........................................................................................................................ 578
Section 16.32. The Song class with overridden hashCode() and equals().................................................................................................................................. 579
Section 16.33. there are no Dumb Questions............................................................................................................................................................................. 580
Section 16.34. And if we want the set to stay sorted, we've got TreeSet..................................................................................................................................... 581
Section 16.35. What you MUST know about TreeSet................................................................................................................................................................. 582
Section 16.36. TreeSet elements MUST be comparable............................................................................................................................................................. 583
Section 16.37. We've seen Lists and Sets, now we'll use a Map.................................................................................................................................................. 584
Section 16.38. Finally, back to generics...................................................................................................................................................................................... 585
Section 16.39. Using polymorphic arguments and generics...................................................................................................................................................... 586
Section 16.40. But will it work with ArrayList<Dog> ?.............................................................................................................................................................. 587
Section 16.41. What could happen if it were allowed................................................................................................................................................................. 588
Section 16.42. Wildcards to the rescue........................................................................................................................................................................................ 591
Section 16.43. Alternate syntax for doing the same thing.......................................................................................................................................................... 592
Section 16.45. Exercise: BE the compiler, advanced.................................................................................................................................................................. 593
Section 16.46. Solution to the "Reverse Engineer" sharpen exercise......................................................................................................................................... 594
Section 16.47. Exercise Solution.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 595
Section 16.48. BE the compiler solution..................................................................................................................................................................................... 596
Chapter 17. Release Your Code............................................................................................ 598
Section 17.1. Deploying your application.................................................................................................................................................................................... 599
Section 17.2. Imagine this scenario............................................................................................................................................................................................ 600
Section 17.3. Separate source code and class files...................................................................................................................................................................... 601
Section 17.4. Put your Java in a JAR.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 602
Section 17.5. Running (executing) the JAR................................................................................................................................................................................ 603
Section 17.6. Put your classes in packages!................................................................................................................................................................................ 604
Section 17.7. Preventing package name conflicts....................................................................................................................................................................... 605
Section 17.8. Compiling and running with packages.................................................................................................................................................................. 607
Section 17.9. The -d flag is even cooler then we said.................................................................................................................................................................. 608
Section 17.10. Making an executable JAR with packages.......................................................................................................................................................... 609
Section 17.11. So where did the manifest file go?........................................................................................................................................................................ 610
Section 17.12. Java Web Start...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 614
Section 17.13. The .jnlp file.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 616
Section 17.14. Steps for making and deploying a Java Web Start app........................................................................................................................................ 617
Section 17.15. What's First?......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 618
Section 17.16. True or False......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 619
Section 17.17. Summary-Cross 7.0.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 620
Chapter 18. Distributed Computing.................................................................................... 624
Section 18.1. Method calls are always bet ween two objects on the same heap......................................................................................................................... 625
Section 18.2. What if you want to invoke a method on an object running on another machine?............................................................................................. 626
Section 18.3. Object A, running on Little, wants to call a method on Object B, running on Big............................................................................................... 627
Section 18.4. But you can't do that.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 627
Section 18.5. The role of the 'helpers'......................................................................................................................................................................................... 629
Section 18.6. Java RMI gives you the client and service helper objects!.................................................................................................................................... 631
Section 18.7. How does the client get the stub object?............................................................................................................................................................... 637
Section 18.8. How does the client get the stub class?................................................................................................................................................................. 638
Section 18.9. Be sure each machine has the class files it needs................................................................................................................................................. 639
Section 18.10. Sharpen your pencil: What's First?..................................................................................................................................................................... 640
Section 18.11. Yeah, but who really uses RMI?........................................................................................................................................................................... 641
Section 18.12. What about Servlets?........................................................................................................................................................................................... 642
Section 18.13. A very simple Ser vlet........................................................................................................................................................................................... 644
Section 18.14. HTML page with a link to this servlet................................................................................................................................................................. 644
Section 18.16. Just for fun, let's make the Phrase-O-Matic work as a servlet............................................................................................................................ 646
Section 18.17. Phrase-O-Matic code, servlet-friendly................................................................................................................................................................. 647
Section 18.18. Enterprise JavaBeans: RMI on steroids.............................................................................................................................................................. 648
Section 18.19. For our final trick... a little Jini........................................................................................................................................................................... 649
Section 18.20. Adaptive discovery in action............................................................................................................................................................................... 650
Section 18.21. Self-healing net work in action............................................................................................................................................................................ 652
Section 18.22. Final Project: the Universal Service browser...................................................................................................................................................... 653
Section 18.23. How it works:....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 654
Section 18.24. The classes and interfaces:.................................................................................................................................................................................. 656
Section 18.25. Sharpen your pencil............................................................................................................................................................................................. 661
Section 18.26. Congratulations!.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 665
Appendix A. Final Code Kitchen.......................................................................................... 666
Section A.1. Final BeatBox client program.................................................................................................................................................................................. 667
Appendix B. The Top Ten Topics that almost made it into the Real Book............................. 676
Section B.1. #10 Bit Manipulation............................................................................................................................................................................................... 677
Section B.2. #9 Immutability...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 678
Section B.3. #8 Assertions........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 679
Section B.4. #7 Block Scope........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 680
Section B.5. #6 Linked Invocations............................................................................................................................................................................................. 681
Section B.6. #5 Anonymous and Static Nested Classes............................................................................................................................................................. 682
Section B.7. #5 Anonymous and Static Nested Classes, continued........................................................................................................................................... 683
Section B.8. #4 Access Levels and Access Modifiers (Who Sees What).................................................................................................................................... 684
Section B.9. #4 Access Levels and Access Modifiers, cont......................................................................................................................................................... 684
Section B.10. #3 String and StringBuffer/StringBuilder Methods............................................................................................................................................ 686
Section B.11. #2 Multidimensional Arrays.................................................................................................................................................................................. 687
Section B.12. And the number one topic that didn't quite make it in... #1 Enumerations (also called Enumerated Types or Enums).................................. 688
Section B.13. Using "if" and "switch" with Enums..................................................................................................................................................................... 689
Section B.14. #1 Enumerations, completed................................................................................................................................................................................ 690
Section B.15. Five-Minute Mystery: A Long Trip Home............................................................................................................................................................. 691
Section B.16. Five-Minute Mystery Solution.............................................................................................................................................................................. 692
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