Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide, Fifth Edition -- Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- Assessment Test -- Answers to Assessment Test -- Part I: The Sun Certified Java Programmer Exam -- Chapter 1: Language Fundamentals -- Source Files -- Keywords and Identifiers -- Primitive Data Types -- Literals -- Arrays -- Importing -- Class Fundamentals -- Argument Passing: By Reference or by Value -- Garbage Collection -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 2: Operators and Assignments -- Overview of the Java Operators -- Evaluation Order -- The Unary Operators -- The Arithmetic Operators -- The Comparison Operators -- The Bitwise Operators -- The Short-Circuit Logical Operators -- The Conditional Operator -- The Assignment Operators -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 3: Modifiers -- Modifier Overview -- Modifiers and Features -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 4: Converting and Casting -- Explicit and Implicit Type Changes -- Primitives and Conversion -- Primitives and Casting -- Object Reference Conversion -- Object Reference Casting -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 5: Flow Control, Assertions, and Exception Handling -- The Loop Constructs -- The Selection Statements -- Exceptions -- Assertions -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 6: Objects and Classes -- Benefits of Object-Oriented Implementation -- Coupling and Cohesion -- Implementing Object-Oriented Relationships -- Methods, Overloading and Overriding -- Constructors and Subclassing -- Inner Classes -- Contracts and Naming Conventions -- Enums -- Summary.

Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 7: Threads -- Thread Fundamentals -- Controlling Threads -- Monitors, Waiting, and Notifying -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 8: The java.lang and java.util Packages -- The Object Class -- The Math Class -- Strings -- The Wrapper Classes -- The Collections Framework -- Generic Collections -- Scanning and Formatting Text -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Chapter 9: I/O and Streams -- Text, UTF, and Unicode -- File Input and Output -- Streams, Readers, and Writers -- Object Streams and Serialization -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Answers to Review Questions -- Part II: The Sun Certified Developer's Exam -- Chapter 10: About the Developer's Exam -- Are You Ready? -- Formalities of the Exam -- The Project Assignment -- The Essay Exam -- Grading -- Chapter 11: Swing Components -- A Strategy for Designing the GUI -- Common Swing Methods -- Basic Swing Components -- JTable -- JTree -- JMenus and Actions -- Panes -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Layout Managers -- Layout Manager Theory -- Layout Policies -- Other Layout Options -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Object Streams and RMI -- Sockets and Streams -- Remote Method Invocation -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Putting It All Together -- Javadoc -- Thread Issues -- Extra Credit -- RMI or Object Streams? -- Common-Sense GUI Design -- Using the jar Tool -- Summary -- Appendix A: Practice Exam -- Questions -- Answers -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Index -- Symbols -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.