Oracle - Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer Certification (OCPJP)

Curriculum

Java SE 7

Java Platform Overview

• Introductions
• Course Schedule
• Java Overview
• Java Platforms
• OpenJDK
• Licensing
• Java in Server Environments
• The Java Community Process

Java Syntax and Class Review

• Simple Java classes
• Java fields, constructors and methods
• Model objects using Java classes
• Package and import statements

Encapsulation and Polymorphism

• Encapsulation in Java class design
• Model business problems with Java classes
• Immutability
• Subclassing
• Overloading methods
• Variable argument methods

Java Class Design

• Access modifiers: private, protected and public
• Method overriding
• Constructor overloading
• The instanceof operator
• Virtual method invocation
• Polymorphism
• Casting object references
• Overriding Object methods

Advanced Class Design

• Abstract classes and type generalisation
• The static and final modifiers
• Field modifier best practices
• The Singleton design pattern
• Designing abstract classes
• Nested classes
• Enumerated types

Inheritance with Java Interfaces

• Java Interfaces
• Types of Inheritance
• Object composition and method delegation
• Implementing multiple interfaces
• The DAO design pattern

Generics and Collections

• Generic classes and type parameters
• Type inference (diamond)
• Collections and generics
• List, set and Map
• Stack and Deque

String processing

• String manipulation with StringBuilder and StringBuffer
• Essential String methods
• Text parsing in Java
• Input processing with Scanner
• Text output and formatting
• Regular expressions with the Pattern and Matcher classes

Exceptions and Assertions

• Exceptions categories
• Standard Java Exception classes
• Creating your own Exception classes
• Using try-catch and the finally clause
• Using try-with-resources and the AutoCloseable interface
• The multi-catch feature
• Best practices using exceptions
• Assertions

I/O Fundamentals

• I/O using Java
• Reading the console input stream
• Writing to the console
• Using I/O Streams
• Chaining I/O Streams
• Channel I/O
• Reading and writing objects using Serialisation

File I/O with NIO 2

• The Path interface
• The Files class
• Directory and File operations
• Managing file system attributes
• Reading, writing, and creating files
• Watching for file system changes

Threading

• Operating system task scheduling
• Recognising multithreaded environments
• Creating multi-threaded solutions
• Sharing data across threads
• Synchronisation and Deadlock
• Immutable objects

Concurrency

• Creating Atomic variables
• Using Read-Write Locks
• Thread-safe collections
• Concurrenct synchronisers (Semaphore, Phaser, and others)
• Executors and ThreadPools to concurrently schedule tasks
• Parallelism and the Fork-Join framework

Database Application with JDBC

• Layout of the JDBC API
• JDBC divers
• Queries and results
• PreparedStatement and CallableStatement
• Transactions
• RowSet 1.1 RowSetProvider and RowSetFactory
• The DAO Pattern and JDBC

Localisation

• Advantages of localisation
• Defining locale
• Read and set locale using the Locale object
• Resource bundles
• Format messages, dates and numbers