Java Tutorial Index

Java keywords/basics

Although in some sense "basic" in the sense of being built-in Java keywords, the details of some of these can be problematic topics that are not well understood by many Java programmers. In the following articles I hope to illuminate some of these topics, but comments are always welcome on how to improve the information.

• final
• synchronized
• volatile
• wait()/notify()

Other topics/areas of Java programming

• Collections: The Java Collections API is a powerful set of classes for managing data structures such as maps, lists, trees etc.
• I/O
• Servlets: The Servlet framework, supported by many hosting companies, allows you to write server code in Java and integrate into a standard web server such as Apache without having to worry (much) about protocol gubbinry such as decoding HTTP requests.
• Synchronization and Concurrency: Looks at questions such as how to share data efficiently among multiple threads and how to communicate between threads, exploring the Java concurrency libraries introduced in version 5 of the platform.
• Threads: clearly related to Synchronization and Concurrency, but looks at some of the more "raw" details of creating and managing threads, including a look at methods such as sleep() and yield(), using the Java Executors framework introduced in Java 5, and other topics such as deadlock and OS thread scheduling.

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