Advanced Java Programming Training Course

Who should attend

Java developers looking to increase their understanding and abilities with the more advanced Java APIs and capabilities.

Prerequisites

You should be comfortable with the topics in our Intro Java Programming training course or have similar experience, with at least 6 months' solid Java coding experience.

On-site

• If you are interested in custom / on-site advanced Java training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your team's project requirements.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.

Advanced Java Programming Training Course Syllabus

Going Further with the Java Language

• Autoboxing and unboxing
• Varargs
• Type-safe enumerations
• Static imports

Java SE 8 and 9 New Features

• Stream API Improvements
• Java Platform Module System
• JShell
• Private interface methods
• Binary integral literals
• Underscores in numeric literals
• Strings in switch
• Multi-catch and precise rethrow
• Improved type inference for generic instance creation
• try-with-resources statement

Java API Techniques

• The Console class
• The StringBuilder class
• Formatting techniques
• Regular expressions

File Handling

• Working with files
• Text files
• Binary files
• Serialization
• NIO
• XML files
• Java properties files

NIO2

• Overview of NIO2
• Basic operations
• File visitors
• Directory watching
• File attributes

Advanced JDBC Techniques

• DataSources
• Metadata
• JDBC escape syntax
• Transaction management
• Additional techniques

Localisation and Resource Bundles

• Locales
• Resource bundles
• Locale-specific formatting and parsing

Reflection

• Dynamic retrieval of information using reflection
• Creating instances of extensibility objects
• Class fields, methods and constructors

Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• Distributed Java applications
• Stub and skeleton layer
• Naming remote objects
• Callbacks
• Dynamic class loading
• Distribution of RMI classes
• Serialization of remote objects
• Untrusted code
• Managing security policies
• Securing applications and applets
• RMI vs. sockets and object serialization

Sockets

• Introduction to sockets
• Implementing a socket server
• Implementing a socket client

Java Native Interface (JNI)

• Getting started with JNI
• Defining native methods in Java
• Implementing native code in C/C++

Multithreading Techniques

• Java synchronization language features
• Designing thread-safe classes
• Recommendations for synchronizing resource access

Additional Multithreading Issues

• Using concurrent collections
• Using synchronizers and locks
• Thread pooling techniques
• Using the executor framework
• Using pooling effectively

TDD and Unit Testing

• Principles of unit testing
• Using JUnit effectively
• Dependency injection and mocking

Testing Multithreaded Code

• Correctness tests
• Liveness tests
• Performance tests
• Techniques for testing multiple threads

Tuning Garbage Collection

• Essential concepts
• Understanding object lifetimes
• Generational collectors
• Heap organization
• Garbage collection options
• Garbage collection monitoring and tuning