Object-Oriented Programming and Java

Chapter 1: Introduction; Object-Oriented Programming; Objects and Their Interactions in the Real World; Objects and Their Interactions in Programming; Simulation; Java; Summary; Exercises.- Chapter 2: Object, Class, Message and Method; Objects and Class; Message and Method; Creating Objects.- Chapter 3: A Quick Tour of Java; Primitive Types; Object Definition; Object Instantiation; Object Access and Message Passing; Representational Independence; Overloading; Initialization and Constructors; Expressions, Statements and Control-flow Mechanisms; Blocks; More Control-flow Statements; Arrays; Result Returned by Method.- Chapter 4: Implementation in Java; Calculator; Code Execution; Simple User Interface; Another Interface for Calculator Engine.- Chapter 5: Classification, Generalization and Specialization; Classification; Hierarchical Relationship of Classes; Generalization; Specialization; Organization of Class Hierarchy; Abstract and Concrete Classes.- Chapter 6: Inheritance; Common Properties; Inheritance; Implementing Inheritance; Code Reuse; Making Changes in Class Hierarchy; Accessing Inherited Properties; Inheritance Chain; Interface.- Chapter 7: Polymorphism; Static Binding; Dynamic Binding; Operation Overloading; Polymorphism.- Chapter 8: Modularity; Methods and Classes as Program Units; Object and Class Properties; Controlling Visibility; Packages; Encapsulation.- Chapter 9: Exception Handling; Using Exceptions; Exception Terminology; Constructs and Exception Semantics in JavaA Simple Example; Paradigms for Exception Handling; Code Finalization and Cleaning Up.- Chapter 10: Input and Output Operations; An Introduction to the Java API; Reading the Java API Documentation; Basic Input and Output; File Manipulation; Framework for Code Reuse; Input/Output Classes in JDK.- Chapter 11: Networking and Multi-Threading; The Network Model; Sockets in Java; Listener Sockets in Java; Considering Multiple Threads of Execution; Creating Multiple Threads of Execution; Improvement of Web Server Example; Thread Synchronization and Shared Resources.- Chapter 12: Graphical Interfaces and Windows; The AWT Model; Basic AWT Constituents; Basic Components; Custom Components; Other Kinds of Class Definitions.- Chapter 13: Applets and Loaders; Applet Characteristics; Applet Life Cycle; Custom Applets; Images and Audio; Animation in Applets; Efficient Repainting; Applet Parameters; Security Restrictions of Applets; Dynamically Loaded Code.- Chapter14: Object Serialization and Remote Method Invocation; Object Serialization; Components in Object Serialization; Custom Serialization; Distributed Computing with Java; An Overview of Java RMI; Using Java RMI; RMI System Architecture; Under the Hood; RMI Deployment.- Chapter 15: Java Database Connectivity; JDBC Demystified; JDBC and Enterprise Computing; What does JDBC do?; JDBC is a Low-level API and a Base for Higher-level APIs; JDBC-ODBC Bridge; JDBC versus ODBC and other API; Two-tier and Three-tier Models; SQL Conformance; Design Perspective; JDBC Architecture; A JDBC Example; Using Beans and Reflection.