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Preface |
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Audience |
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Typographical Conventions |
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Code Samples |
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Tools |
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Using Code Examples |
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Comments and Questions |
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Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 1. Java in Review |
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Section 1.1. Core Concepts |
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Section 1.2. Syntax Issues |
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Section 1.3. Access Issues |
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Section 1.4. Common Mistakes |
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Chapter 2. The Final Story |
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Section 2.1. Final Constants |
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Section 2.2. Final Variables |
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Section 2.3. Final Parameters |
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Section 2.4. Final Collections |
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Section 2.5. Instance-Scoped Variables |
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Section 2.6. Final Classes |
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Section 2.7. Final Methods |
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Section 2.8. Conditional Compilation |
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Section 2.9. Using final as a Coding Standard |
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Chapter 3. Immutable Types |
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Section 3.1. Fundamentals |
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Section 3.2. Immutable Problems |
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Section 3.3. Immutable or Not |
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Chapter 4. Collections |
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Section 4.1. Collection Concepts |
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Section 4.2. Implementations |
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Section 4.3. Choosing a Collection Type |
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Section 4.4. Iterating Collections |
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Section 4.5. Collection Gotchas |
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Chapter 5. Exceptional Code |
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Section 5.1. Two Types of Exceptions |
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Section 5.2. When to Use Exceptions |
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Section 5.3. Finally for Closure |
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Section 5.4. Exceptional Traps |
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Chapter 6. Nested Classes |
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Section 6.1. Inner Classes |
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Section 6.2. Limited-Scope Inner Classes |
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Section 6.3. Static Nested Classes |
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Section 6.4. Double Nested Classes |
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Section 6.5. Nested Classes in Interfaces? |
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Section 6.6. Nested Interfaces |
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Section 6.7. Nested Class Rules |
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Chapter 7. All About Constants |
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Section 7.1. Substitution Constants |
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Section 7.2. Bit Fields |
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Section 7.3. Option Constants |
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Section 7.4. Constant Objects |
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Section 7.5. Constant Encapsulation |
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Chapter 8. Data Modeling |
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Section 8.1. The Requirements Document |
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Section 8.2. Natural Language Modeling |
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Section 8.3. Aspects of Well-Designed Data Models |
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Section 8.4. Reusable Data Constraints |
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Section 8.5. Persistence |
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Chapter 9. Practical Reflection |
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Section 9.1. The Basics |
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Section 9.2. Reflection and Greater Reflection |
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Section 9.3. Applying Reflection to MutableObject |
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Section 9.4. Performance of Reflection |
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Section 9.5. Reflection + JUnit = Stable Code |
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Chapter 10. Proxies |
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Section 10.1. What Is a Proxy? |
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Section 10.2. Two Kinds of Proxies |
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Section 10.3. Proxy Gotchas |
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Chapter 11. References in Four Flavors |
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Section 11.1. The Problem |
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Section 11.2. Java Reference Concepts |
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Section 11.3. The Java Reference Classes |
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Section 11.4. Practical apps |
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Section 11.5. A Weak Listener |
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Section 11.6. When to Use References |
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Chapter 12. Tiger: JDK 1.5 |
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Section 12.1. New Language Features |
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Section 12.2. Generics |
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Section 12.3. Other Improvements in Tiger |
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