Essential Classes: Table of Contents

• Exceptions
  • What Is an Exception?
  • The Catch or Specify Requirement
  • Catching and Handling Exceptions
    • The try Block
    • The catch Blocks
    • The finally Block
    • The try-with-resources Statement
    • Putting It All Together
  • Specifying the Exceptions Thrown by a Method
  • How to Throw Exceptions
    • Chained Exceptions
    • Creating Exception Classes
  • Unchecked Exceptions - The Controversy
  • Advantages of Exceptions
  • Summary
  • Questions and Exercises
• Basic I/O
  • I/O Streams
    • Byte Streams
    • Character Streams
    • Buffered Streams
    • Scanning and Formatting
      • Scanning
      • Formatting
    • I/O from the Command Line
    • Data Streams
    • Object Streams
  • File I/O (Featuring NIO.2)
    • What Is a Path? (And Other File System Facts)
    • The Path Class
      • Path Operations
    • File Operations
    • Checking a File or Directory
    • Deleting a File or Directory
    • Copying a File or Directory
    • Moving a File or Directory
    • Managing Metadata (File and File Store Attributes)
    • Reading, Writing, and Creating Files
    • Random Access Files
    • Creating and Reading Directories
    • Links, Symbolic or Otherwise
    • Walking the File Tree
    • Finding Files
    • Watching a Directory for Changes
    • Other Useful Methods
    • Legacy File I/O Code
  • Summary
  • Questions and Exercises: Basic I/O
• Concurrency
  • Processes and Threads
  • Thread Objects
    • Defining and Starting a Thread
    • Pausing Execution with Sleep
    • Interrupts
    • Joins
    • The SimpleThreads Example
  • Synchronization
    • Thread Interference
    • Memory Consistency Errors
    • Synchronized Methods
    • Intrinsic Locks and Synchronization
    • Atomic Access
  • Liveness
    • Deadlock
    • Starvation and Livelock
  • Guarded Blocks
  • Immutable Objects
    • A Synchronized Class Example
    • A Strategy for Defining Immutable Objects
  • High Level Concurrency Objects
    • Lock Objects
    • Executors
      • Executor Interfaces
      • Thread Pools
      • Fork/Join
    • Concurrent Collections
    • Atomic Variables
    • Concurrent Random Numbers
  • For Further Reading
  • Questions and Exercises: Concurrency
• The Platform Environment
  • Configuration Utilities
    • Properties
    • Command-Line Arguments
    • Environment Variables
    • Other Configuration Utilities
  • System Utilities
    • Command-Line I/O Objects
    • System Properties
    • The Security Manager
    • Miscellaneous Methods in System
  • PATH and CLASSPATH
  • Questions and Exercises: The Platform Environment
• Regular Expressions
  • Introduction
  • Test Harness
  • String Literals
  • Character Classes
  • Predefined Character Classes
  • Quantifiers
  • Capturing Groups
  • Boundary Matchers
  • Methods of the Pattern Class
  • Methods of the Matcher Class
  • Methods of the PatternSyntaxException Class
  • Unicode Support
  • Additional Resources
  • Questions and Exercises: Regular Expressions