How to create and destroy objects

• Introduction

Using methods common to all objects

• Introduction
• Methods equals and hashCode
• Method toString
• Method clone
• Method equals and == operator
• Useful helper classes
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How to design Classes and Interfaces

• Introduction
• Interfaces
• Marker Interfaces
• Functional interfaces, default and static methods
• Abstract classes
• Immutable classes
• Anonymous classes
• Visibility
• Inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
• Inheritance and composition
• Encapsulation
• Final classes and methods
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How and when to use Generics

• Introduction
• Generics and interfaces
• Generics and classes
• Generics and methods
• Limitation of generics
• Generics, wildcards and bounded types
• Generics and type inference
• Generics and annotations
• Accessing generic type parameters
• When to use generics
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How and when to use Enums and Annotations

• Introduction
• Enums as special classes
• Enums and instance fields
• Enums and interfaces
• Enums and generics
• Convenient Enums methods
• Specialized Collections: EnumSet and EnumMap
• When to use enums
• Annotations as special interfaces
• Annotations and retention policy
• Annotations and element types
• Annotations and inheritance
• Repeatable annotations
• Annotation processors
• Annotations and configuration over convention
• When to use annotations
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How to write methods efficiently

• Introduction
• Method signatures
• Method body
• Method overloading
• Method overriding
• Inlining
• Recursion
• Method References
• Immutability
• Method Documentation
• Method Parameters and Return Values
• Methods as API entry points
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General programming guidelines

• Introduction
• Variable scopes
• Class fields and local variables
• Method arguments and local variables
• Boxing and unboxing
• Interfaces
• Strings
• Naming conventions
• Standard Libraries
• Immutability
• Testing
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How and when to use Exceptions

• Introduction
• Exceptions and when to use them
• Checked and unchecked exceptions
• Using try-with-resources
• Exceptions and lambdas
• Standard Java exceptions
• Defining your own exceptions
• Documenting exceptions
• Exceptions and logging
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Concurrency best practices

• Introduction
• Threads and Thread Groups
• Concurrency, Synchronization and Immutability
• Futures, Executors and Thread Pools
• Locks
• Thread Schedulers
• Atomic Operations
• Concurrent Collections
• Explore Java standard library
• Using Synchronization Wisely
• Wait/Notify
• Troubleshooting Concurrency Issues
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Built-in Serialization techniques

• Introduction
• Serializable interface
• Externalizable interface
• More about Serializable interface
• Serializability and Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
• JAXB
• JSON-P
• Cost of serialization
• Beyond Java standard library and specifications
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How to use Reflection effectively

• Introduction
• Reflection API
• Accessing generic type parameters
• Reflection API and visibility
• Reflection API pitfalls
• Method Handles
• Method Argument Names
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Dynamic languages support

• Introduction
• Dynamic Languages Support
• Scripting API
• JavaScript on JVM
• Groovy on JVM
• Ruby on JVM
• Python on JVM
• Using Scripting API
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Java Compiler API

• Introduction
• Java Compiler API
• Annotation Processors
• Element Scanners
• Java Compiler Tree API
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Java Annotation Processors

• Introduction
• When to Use Annotation Processors
• Annotation Processing Under the Hood
• Writing Your Own Annotation Processor
• Running Annotation Processors
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Java Agents

• Introduction
• Java Agent Basics
• Java Agent and Instrumentation
• Writing Your First Java Agent
• Running Java Agents
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