Book Title -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introducing Java -- Why Learn Java? -- Setting the Goals -- The Life Cycle of a Java Program -- JDK and JRE -- Downloading and Installing Java SE -- Installing JDK 8 for MAC OS -- Installing JDK 8 in Windows -- Your First Java Program: Hello World -- Compiling and Running Hello World -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 2. Eclipse IDE -- Introducing Eclipse IDE -- Downloading and Installing Eclipse -- Creating Hello Project in Eclipse -- Creating the HelloWorld Class in Eclipse -- Java Packages -- Completing Code Generation -- Additional Materials -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 3. Object-Oriented Programming with Java -- Classes and Objects -- Variables and Data Types -- Declaring Variables -- Final Variables -- Primitive Data Types -- Variable Scope -- Wrappers, Autoboxing, and Unboxing -- Program Comments -- First Useful Program -- Conditional Statement if -- switch Statement -- Inheritance -- Method Overriding -- Additional Materials -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Hints -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 4. Class Methods and Constructors -- Method Arguments -- Method Overloading -- Constructors -- The Keyword super -- The Keyword this -- Passing by Value or by Reference -- Variable Scopes -- The Keyword static -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 5. Java Syntax: Bits and Pieces -- Arrays -- More About Strings -- Loops -- Debugging Java Programs -- More About if and switch Statements -- The Flavors of if Statements -- Command-Line Arguments -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 6. Packages, Interfaces, and Encapsulation -- Java Packages -- Encapsulation -- Access Levels -- The Keyword final -- final Variables -- final Methods -- final Classes -- Interfaces.

Marker Interfaces -- Default Methods in Interfaces -- Static Methods in Interfaces -- Casting -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 7. Programming with Abstract Classes and Interfaces -- Abstract Classes -- Assignment -- Solution with an Abstract Class -- Polymorphism -- Making the Interface Solution Polymorphic -- Interfaces Versus Abstract Classes -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 8. Introducing the GUI with Swing -- Swing Basics -- Layout Managers -- A Simple Calculator with FlowLayout -- A Brief Introduction to Layout Managers -- FlowLayout -- GridLayout -- BorderLayout -- Combining Layout Managers -- BoxLayout -- GridBagLayout -- CardLayout -- Containers with Absolute Layout -- More About Swing Widgets -- Swing GUI Builders -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 9. Event Handling in Swing GUI -- Introduction to Event Listeners -- Teaching the Calculator to Calculate -- Registering Components with ActionListener -- Finding the Source of an Event -- How to Pass Data Between Objects -- Design Pattern Model-View-Controller -- More Swing Listeners -- How to use Adapters -- Inner Classes -- Anonymous Inner Classes -- Chapter 10. Error Handling -- Stack Trace -- Java Exceptions -- Exception Hierarchy -- Try/Catch Blocks -- Using the throws Clause -- Using the finally Clause -- Try-With-Resources -- The throw Keyword -- Creating Your Own Exceptions -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 11. Introduction to Collections -- Arrays Revisited -- Collection Interfaces From java.util -- Dynamic Arrays with ArrayList -- Classes Hashtable and Hashmap -- Class Properties -- Classes Enumeration and Iterator -- Class LinkedList -- Class BitSet -- Choosing the Right Collection -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 12. Introduction to Generics.

Generics with Classes -- Declaring Generics -- Wildcards -- Creating Custom Parameterized Classes -- Bounded Type Parameters -- Generic Methods -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 13. Lambda Expressions and Functional Style Programming -- Imperative vs Functional Style -- What's Lambda Expression -- Methods Versus Functions -- Passing Functions to Methods -- Iterating Collections with forEach() -- Lambdas Versus Inheritance and Polymorphism -- Eliminating Inheritance -- Interfaces Function and BiFunction -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 14. Working with I/O Streams -- Byte Streams -- Buffered Streams -- Character Streams -- -- Data Streams -- Utility Classes for Working with Files -- The Class File -- NIO.2: Using Files, Path, and Paths -- What NIO Is About -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 15. Java Serialization -- The Class ObjectOutputStream -- The Class ObjectInputStream -- The Interface Externalizable -- Class Versioning -- Serializing into Byte Arrays -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 16. Network Programming Basics -- Reading Data from the Internet -- Connecting Through HTTP Proxy Servers -- How to Download Files from the Internet -- Specifying Command-Line Parameters for FileDownload -- The Stock Quote Program -- Socket Programming -- Why Use Sockets? -- The Stock Quote Server with Sockets -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Hints -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 17. Concurrency and Multithreading -- The Class Thread -- The Interface Runnable -- Eliminating Inheritance -- Sleeping Threads -- How to Kill a Thread -- Thread Priorities -- Thread Synchronization and Race Conditions -- Thread States -- Wait and Notify -- Closures in Java -- Joining Threads -- Goodies From java.util.concurrent -- ReentrantLock Versus Synchronized -- Executor Framework.

A Brief Review of Concurrent Collections -- Swingworker Thread -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 18. Introduction to GUI with JavaFX -- JavaFX Application Basics -- Using the E(fx)clipse Plug-in -- Layouts -- A Sample Application with the HBox Layout -- A Sample Application with the GridPane Layout -- Skinning with CSS -- Event Handling -- Properties and Binding -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 19. Developing JavaFX Calculator and Tic-Tac-Toe -- Designing a Calculator with Scene Builder -- Designing the Calculator GUI with Scene Builder -- Programming Tic-Tac-Toe -- The Game Strategy -- Designing Tic-Tac-Toe GUI with FXML and CSS -- Implementing Game Strategy in Tic-Tac-Toe Controller -- Handling the Tic-Tac-Toe Menu Play -- Tic-Tac-Toe: What to Try Next -- JavaFX on the Web and Mobile Devices -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 20. Stream API -- Stream Basics -- Intermediate and Terminal Operations -- Parallel Versus Sequential Processing -- Sorting Collections and Streams -- Sorting Java Collections -- Sorting Streams -- Other Stream Sources -- Creating Finite Size Streams -- Creating Infinite-Size Streams -- Short-Circuit Operations -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 21. Working with Relational DBMS Using JDBC -- JDBC Driver Types -- Installing Derby DB and Creating a Database -- Sample JDBC Program -- Processing Result Sets -- The PreparedStatement Class -- The CallableStatement Class -- The ResultSetMetaData Class -- Scrollable Result Sets and Rowset -- Transactional Updates -- Connection Pools and DataSource -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Hint -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 22. Rendering Tabular Data in the GUI -- JTable and the MVC Paradigm -- The Model -- Mandatory Callbacks of Table Models -- Optional Callbacks of Table Models.

Introduction to Renderers -- Summary -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 23. Annotations and Reflection -- Javadoc Annotations -- Java Annotations Basics -- @Override -- @Deprecated -- @Inherited -- @FunctionalInterface -- @Documented -- Custom Annotations -- Reflection -- Run-Time Annotation Processing -- Summary -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 24. Remote Method Invocation -- Developing Applications with RMI -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Hints -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 25. Java EE 7 Overview -- The Big Picture -- JCP, JSR, and Other Acronyms -- Tiers of Java EE Applications -- Containers Versus Application Servers -- Profiles and Pruning -- Why Java EE? -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 26. Programming with Servlets -- The Big Picture -- The Thin Client -- How to Write a Servlet -- How to Deploy a Servlet -- Configuring Glassfish in Eclipse IDE -- How to Create a Servlet in Eclipse -- Deploying a Web Application as WAR -- Browser-Servlet Data Flow -- HTTP Get and Post Requests -- Session Tracking -- Cookies -- URL Rewriting -- Server-Side HttpSession -- -- Asynchronous Servlets -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 27. JavaServer Pages -- Embedding Java Code into HTML -- Implicit JSP Objects -- Overview of the JSP Tags -- Directives -- Declarations -- Expressions -- Scriptlets -- Comments -- Standard Actions -- Error Pages -- Java Beans -- Using JavaBeans in JSP -- How Long Does a Bean Live? -- Loading JSP from Servlets -- Tag Libraries -- JSTL -- Try It -- Lesson Requirements -- Step-by-Step -- Chapter 28. Developing Web Applications with WebSockets -- HTTP Drawbacks -- HTTP Hacks for Server-Side Data Push -- Client-Server Communication with Websockets -- Web Browser as a WebSocket Client -- Communication with the Server Using WebSockets.

Sending Messages.