Java 1 5 Tiger A Developer Notebook 1st Edition by McLaughlin Brett, Flanagan David 0596007388 9780596007386

Chapter 1. What’s New?

Working with Arrays

Using Queues

Ordering Queues Using Comparators

Overriding Return Types

Taking Advantage of Better Unicode

Adding String Builder to the Mix

Chapter 2. Generics

Using Type-Safe Lists

Using Type-Safe Maps

Iterating Over Parameterized Types

Accepting Parameterized Types as Arguments

Returning Parameterized Types

Using Parameterized Types as Type Parameters

Checking for Lint

Generics and Type Conversions

Using Type Wildcards

Writing Generic Types

Restricting Type Parameters

Chapter 3. Enumerated Types

Creating an Enum

Declaring Enums Inline

Iterating Over Enums

Switching on Enums

Maps of Enums

Sets of Enums

Adding Methods to an Enum

Implementing Interfaces with Enums

Value-Specific Class Bodies

Manually Defining an Enum

Extending an Enum

Chapter 4. Autoboxing and Unboxing

Converting Primitives to Wrapper Types

Converting Wrapper Types to Primitives

Incrementing and Decrementing Wrapper Types

Boolean Versus boolean

Conditionals and Unboxing

Control Statements and Unboxing

Method Overload Resolution

Chapter 5. varargs

Creating a Variable-Length Argument List

Iterating Over Variable-Length Argument Lists

Allowing Zero-Length Argument Lists

Specify Object Arguments Over Primitives

Avoiding Automatic Array Conversion

Chapter 6. Annotations

Using Standard Annotation Types

Annotating an Overriding Method

Annotating a Deprecated Method

Suppressing Warnings

Creating Custom Annotation Types

Annotating Annotations

Defining an Annotation Type’s Target

Setting the Retention of an Annotation Type

Documenting Annotation Types

Setting Up Inheritance in Annotations

Reflecting on Annotations

Chapter 7. The for/in Statement

Ditching Iterators

Iterating over Arrays

Iterating over Collections

Avoiding Unnecessary Typecasts

Making Your Classes Work with for/in

Determining List Position and Variable Value

Removing List Items in a for/in Loop

Chapter 8. Static Imports

Importing Static Members

Using Wildcards in Static Imports

Importing Enumerated Type Values

Importing Multiple Members with the Same Name

Shadowing Static Imports

Chapter 9. Formatting

Creating a Formatter

Writing Formatted Output

Using the format( ) Convenience Method

Using the printf( ) Convenience Method

Chapter 10. Threading

Handling Uncaught Exceptions in Threads

Using Thread-Safe Collections

Using Blocking Queues

Specifying Timeouts for Blocking

Separating Thread Logic from Execution Logic

Using Executor as a Service

Using Callable Objects

Executing Tasks Without an ExecutorService

Scheduling Tasks

Advanced Synchronizing

Using Atomic Types

Locking Versus Synchronization

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