A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification

• Extensive coverage of all the objectives defined for the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform exam
  
• Easy to follow structure with chapters organized according to the exam objectives as laid out by Sun
  
• Summaries which clearly state and differentiate the exam objectives and the supplementary objectives to be covered in each chapter
  
• A list of Sun's objectives for the Programmer exam, and a guide to taking the exam
  
• Numerous exam-relevant review questions to test understanding of each major topic, with annotated answers
  
• A complete mock exam with new questions (not repeats of review questions)
  
• Programming exercises at the end of each chapter, with solutions
  
• Ample code examples to illustrate concepts, which have been compiled and thoroughly tested on multiple platforms
  
• Screen shots which illustrate how the examples would look when run
  
• Numerous illustrations which use the standard diagrammatic notation, UML
  
• An introduction to basic terminology and concepts in object-oriented programming
  
• Advice on how to avoid common pitfalls in mastering the language
  
• Platform independent coverage - platform specific details are provided where relevant
  

Additional but relevant topics are also covered, such as using threads, building GUI with AWT and Swing components, rendering graphics, implementing applets, handling I/O streams, generating documentation using Javadoc and much more.

The accompanying web site includes a mock exam engine; complete source code for all the examples and the programming exercises, with solutions; links to important resources (web browsers, JDK, BDK and integrated development environments for Java); updates; additional review questions; and more....

Written for anyone with previous programming experience (although not necessarily in Java), this book's comprehensive coverage of the basic and the advanced features of the language make it as useful for experienced Java programmers aiming at certification, as for programmers learning Java for the first time.

Table of contents

1. Language Fundamentals

2. Operators and Assignments

3. Declarations and Access Control

4. Flow Control and Exception

5. Object-Oriented Programming

6. Garbage Collection and Object Lifetime

7. Threads

8. The Core Java Classes

9. Components and Facilities

10. Component Layout

11. Event Handling

12. Input/Output with Streams

13. Applets

14. Java Foundation Classes (JFC)

15. Collections

16. Introduction to Concepts in Object-Oriented Programming