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This complete training course for the Java 2 includes 8 CD-ROM's and contains over 11 hours of professional quality instructor led training. Multimedia content allows you to quickly learn key concepts and the CD format lets you quickly pause and review important areas. A detailed outline of the course as well as a short introduction to the trainer are included below.

Java 2 set of 8 (CD) $499.95    Java 2 set of 8 (VHS) $499.95    Shipping (US only) FREE

About The Trainer:

Brian is an Java columnist, book author, conference guest speaker, inventory, consultant and instructor. He has worked exclusively in the Java realm for several years, before which he was a software engineer and project leader. His is president of the software consulting company Blumenfeld & Maso, Inc. Brian's extensive background in Java will make learning this powerful yet complex development tool easy.

 Level 1 (1 Hr. 40 Min.)

  Java Architecture & Virtual Machine (22 Min.)

• Overview
• Three Parts of Java
• Java Files and executable files
• Creating a Stand-alone application
• Java Versioning

  Creating Java Object Classes (41 Min.)

• The Java Language
• Program Flow
• Building Java Classes
• Class Packages

  Creating Java Objects (35 Min.)

• How to Create Objects
• Instance Methods
• The This Reference
• Constructors
• Methods Every Object Has
• Object Variables
• Garbage Collection

 Level 2 (1 Hr. 34 Min.)

  Arrays (19 Min.)

• What is an Array?
• Creating Arrays
• Arrays of Java Objects
• Shorthand for Creating Arrays
• Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• Bounds Checked
• Copying Arrays

  Interfaces (26 Min.)

• Concept of Java Interfaces
• Interface Reference Types
• Casting Between Different Types of Object References
• Extending Interfaces

  Inheritance (48 Min.)

• Extending Classes
• Virtual Methods
• Constructors
• Protection & Encapsulation
• Abstract & Final Classes

 Level 3 (1 Hr. 33 Min.)

  Exceptions (29 Min.)

• Try/catch Blocks
• Program Flow During Exceptions
• Exception Classes
• The Throws Clause
• The Finally block

  Inner Classes (41 Min.)

• Static Inner Classes
• Inner Class Types
• Inner Instance Classes
• Anonymous Inner Classes

  Multi threading Capabilities (21 Min.)

• Simultaneous Threads
• The Thread Class
• Extending the Thread Class
• When will the VM Quit? (Daemon Threads)
• Implementing Runnable
• Thread Priority

 Level 4 (2 Hrs. 17 Min.)

  Synchronization of Multiple Threads (34 Min.)

• The Synchronization Problem
• Blocking Methods
• A SynchronizedQueue (The notify () Method)
• A CubbyHole (The notify All() Method)
• The Patterns of Blocking Methods (Notify vs. NotifyAll)

  Utility Classes (13 Min.)

• Built in Data Structures
• The Vector Class
• The Hashtable Class
• The Properties Class
• The Math Class
• The String Tokenizer Class
• The Java 2 Collection Framework

  Streaming Architecture (17 Min.)

• The Stream Concept
• Reading from and Writing to Streams
• The Local File System
• Filter Streams

 Level 5 (1 Hr. 34 Min.)

  Java Internetworking API (42 Min.)

• Using URL Objects
• Using URL Connection Objects
• Sockets: Client-side
• Sockets: Server-side

  Introduction to the AWT (26 Min.)

• Architecture
• Components and Paint()
• The Component Class
• Intrinsic Components

  Event Handling (25 Min.)

• Generic Asynch Event Loop
• Handling Events
• The AWT Callback Thread
• HandleEvents() and Helper Methods

 Level 6 (1 Hr. 26 Min.)

  Java 1.1's Event Model (22 Min.)

• Event Model Basics
• Listener Interfaces
• Adapter Classes
• Event Propagation & Backwards Compatibility
• The AWT Listener Interfaces

  AWT's Adv. Graphics (30 Min.)

• Text Rendering
• Images & Double-buffered Graphics
• Loading and Downloading Images

  Building Graphical User Interfaces (33 Min.)

• Containers and Layout Managers
• Preferred Size
• Review of Layout Managers
• Hierarchies of Panels

 Level 7 (1 Hr. 29 Min.)

  Garbage Collection (48 Min.)

• Advantages & Disadvantages
• Defragmentation
• Intro to Garbage Collection
• Orphan Objects
• Finalization and finalize()
• Reference: chains
• The "mark and sweep" algorithm
• Object resurrection
• The limits of Java 1.1 GC

  Java2 Garbage Collection (39 Min.)

• Extending Java 1.1 GC
• Reference Strength
• Strongly reachable
• Softly reachable
• Weakly reachable
• The ReferenceQueue class
• Phantom references

 Level 8 (2 Hrs. 11 Min.)

  Reflection (55 Min.)

• Introduction
• The Class class
• The Field class
• The Method class

  Serialization (30 Min.)

• Stream-based persistence
• Writing objects out
• Re-creating objects
• Serializable objects
• Object graphs
• Static and transient data

  Advanced Serialization (36 Min.)

• De-serialization initialization
• The readObject() and writeObject() methods
• Evolving class definitions
• Serialization and inheritance

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