OCP Java (OCPJP) 8 Exam Quick Reference Card

OCP Java (OCPJP) 8 Exam
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If you are preparing to appear for
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Programmer (OCPJP 8) certification
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The first few pages of this reference card provides overall information
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topic, organized by the exam sub-topics. You’ll also find tables and
class hierarchies which will help you remember key points and crack
the exam with ease.
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Certification Objectives
Implement encapsulation
Implement inheritance including visibility modifiers and
composition
Implement polymorphism
Override hashCode, equals, and toString methods from Object
class
Create and use singleton classes and immutable classes
Develop code that uses static keyword on initialize blocks,
variables, methods, and classes
Java Class Design
Implement encapsulation
• Encapsulation : Combining data and the functions
operating on it as a single unit
• You cannot access the private methods of the base
class in the derived class.
• You can access the protected method either from a
class in the same package (just like package private or
default) as well as from a derived class.
• You can also access a method with a
default access modifier if it is in the same
package.
• You can access public methods of a
class from any other class.
Implement inheritance including
visibility modifiers and composition
• Inheritance : Creating hierarchical
relationships between related classes.
Inheritance is also called an "IS-A“
relationship .
• You use the super keyword to call base
class methods.
• Inheritance implies IS-A and
composition implies HAS-A relationship.
• Favour composition over inheritance.

Java Class Design
Implement polymorphism
• Polymorphism : Interpreting the same
message (i.e., method call) with different
meanings depending on the context.
• Resolving a method call based on the
dynamic type of the object is referred to as
runtime polymorphism .
• Overloading is an example of static
polymorphism ( early binding ) while
overriding is an example of dynamic
polymorphism ( late binding ).
• Method overloading : Creating methods
with same name but different types and/or
numbers of parameters.
• You can have overloaded constructors . You can call
a constructor of the same class in another
constructor using the this keyword.
• Overload resolution is the process by which the
compiler looks to resolve a call when overloaded
definitions of a method are available.
• In overriding , the name of the method, number of
arguments, types of arguments, and return type
should match exactly.
• In covariant return types , you can provide the
derived class of the return type in the overriding
method.

Java Class Design
Create and use singleton classes and immutable classes
• A singleton ensures that only one object of its class is created.
• Making sure that an intended singleton implementation is
indeed singleton is a nontrivial task, especially in a multi-threaded
environment.
• Once an immutable object is created and initialized, it cannot be
modified.
• Immutable objects are safer to use than mutable objects; further, immutable objects are thread
safe; further, immutable objects that have same state can save space by sharing the state internally.
• To define an immutable class, make it final. Make all its fields private and final. Provide only
accessor methods (i.e., getter methods) but don’t provide mutator methods. For fields that are
mutable reference types, or methods that need to mutate the state, create a deep copy of the
object if needed.

Java Class Design
Develop code that uses static keyword on
initialize blocks, variables, methods, and
classes
• There are two types of member variables: class
variables and instance variables. All variables that
require an instance (object) of the class to access
them are known as instance variables . All
variables that are shared among all instances and
are associated with a class rather than an object
are referred to as class variables (declared using
the static keyword).
• All static members do not require an instance to
call/access them. You can directly call/access them
using the class name.
• A static member can call/access only a static
member of the same class.
Override hashCode, equals, and
toString methods from Object class
• You can override clone() , equals(),
hashCode() , toString() and finalize() methods
in your classes. Since getClass() , notify() ,
notifyAll() , and the overloaded versions of
wait() method are declared final , you cannot
override these methods.
• If you’re using an object in containers like
HashSet or HashMap , make sure you
override the hashCode() and equals()
methods correctly. For instance, ensure that
the hashCode() method returns the same
hash value for two objects if the equals()
method returns true for them.

Develop code that uses abstract classes and methods
Develop code that uses final keyword
Create inner classes including static inner class, local class,
nested class, and anonymous inner class
Use enumerated types including methods and constructors in
an enum type
Develop code that declares, implements, and/or extends
interfaces and use the atOverride annotation
Create and use Lambda expressions
Advanced Class Design
Develop code that uses a final
keyword
• A final class is a non-inheritable class
(i.e., you cannot inherit from a final class).
• A final method is a non-overridable
method (i.e., subclasses cannot override a
final method).
• All methods of a final class are implicitly
final (i.e., non-overridable).
• A final variable can be assigned only
once.
Develop code that uses abstract classes and
methods
• An abstraction specifying functionality supported
without disclosing finer level details.
• You cannot create instances of an abstract class.
• Abstract classes enable runtime polymorphism, and
runtime polymorphism in turn enables loose coupling.

Create inner classes including static inner class, local class, nested class, and anonymous
inner Class
• Java supports four types of nested classes: static nested classes, inner classes, local inner classes,
and anonymous inner classes.
• Static nested classes may have static members, whereas the other flavors of nested classes can’t.
• Static nested classes and inner classes can access members of an outer class (even private
members). However, static nested classes can access only static members of outer classes.
• Local classes (both local inner classes and anonymous inner classes) can access all variables
declared in the outer scope (whether a method, constructor, or a statement block).

Use enumerated types including
methods, and constructors in an enum
type
• Enums are a typesafe way to achieve
restricted input from users.
• You cannot use new with enums, even
inside the enum definition.
• Enum classes are by default final classes.
• All enum classes are implicitly derived
from java.lang.Enum .
Develop code that declares,
implements, and/or extends interfaces
and use the atOverride annotation
• An interface can have three kinds of
methods: abstract methods, default
methods, and static methods.
• The “diamond problem” occurs when a derived type
inherits two method definitions in the base types that
have the same signature.
• If two super interfaces have the same method name
and one of them has a definition, the compiler will
issue an error; this conflict has to be resolved
manually.
• If a base class and a base interface define methods
with the same signature, the method definition in the
class is used and the interface definition is ignored.

Develop code that declares,
implements, and/or extends
interfaces and use the atOverride
annotation
• A functional interface consists of exactly
one abstract method but can contain any
number of default or static methods.
• A declaration of a functional interface
results in a “functional interface type” that
can be used with lambda expressions.
• For a functional interface, declaring
methods from Object class in an interface
does not count as an abstract method.
Create and use Lambda expressions
• In a lambda expression, the left side of the ->
provides the parameters; the right side, the body.
The arrow operator (“->”) helps in concise
expressions of lambda functions.
• You can create a reference to a functional interface
and assign a lambda expression to it. If you invoke
the abstract method from that interface, it will call
the assigned lambda expression.
• Compiler can perform type inferences of lambda
parameters if omitted. When declared, parameters
can have modifiers such as final .
• Variables accessed by a lambda function are
considered to be effectively final .

Create and use a generic class
Create and useArrayList,TreeSet,TreeMap, and
ArrayDeque objects
Use java.util.Comparator and java.lang.Comparable
interfaces
CollectionsStreams and Filters
Iterate using forEach methods of Streams and List
DescribeStream interface and Stream pipeline
Filter a collection by using lambda expressions
Use method references with Streams
Generics and Collections
• Generics are not covariant. That is,
subtyping doesn’t work with generics; you
cannot assign a derived generic type
parameter to a base type parameter.
• Avoid mixing raw types with generic types.
In other cases, make sure of the type safety
manually.
• The <?> specifies an unknown type in
generics and
Create and use ArrayList, TreeSet,
TreeMap, and ArrayDeque objects
• The terms Collection, Collections, and
collection are different. Collection —
java.util.Collection<E> —is the root interface
in the collection hierarchy. Collections —
java.util.Collections —is a utility class that
contains only static methods. The general
term collection(s) refers to containers like
map, stack, and queue.
• Generics will ensure that any attempts to add
elements of types other than the specified type(s) will
be caught at compile time itself. Hence, generics offer
generic implementation with type safety.
• Java 7 introduced diamond syntax where the type
parameters (after new operator and class name) can
be omitted. The compiler will infer the types from the
type declaration.

• A HashMap uses a hash table data
structure internally. In HashMap, searching
(or looking up elements) is a fast operation.
However, HashMap neither remembers
the order in which you inserted elements nor
keeps elements in any sorted order. Unlike
HashMap, TreeMap keeps the elements in
sorted order (i.e., sorted by its keys). So,
searching or inserting is somewhat slower
than the HashMap.
• Deque (Doubly ended queue) is a data
structure that allows you to insert and
remove elements from both ends. There are
three concrete implementations of the
Deque interface: LinkedList, ArrayDeque, and
LinkedBlockingDeque .
• The difference between an ArrayList and
ArrayDeque is that you can add an element
anywhere in an array list using an index;
however, you can add an element only either
at the front or end of the array deque.
•Remember that you cannot add or remove elements
to the List returned by the Arrays.asList() method. But,
you can make changes to the elements in the returned
List , and the changes made to that List are reflected
back in the array.
• A HashSet is for quickly inserting and retrieving
elements; it does not maintain any sorting order for the
elements it holds. A TreeSet stores the elements in a
sorted order (and it implements the SortedSet
interface).

IntStream , LongStream , and DoubleStream are
streams for primitive types int , long , and double
types respectively.
• A stream is a sequence of elements. In Java 8,
the Collection interface has been added with the
methods stream() and parallelStream() from
which you can respectively get sequential and
parallel streams.
Iterate using forEach methods of Streams
and List
• In Java 8, we are moving from external iteration
to internal iteration. It is a major change with
Java 8 approach of functional programming.
• The interfaces Stream and Iterable define
forEach() method. The forEach() method supports
internal iteration.
Use java.util.Comparator and
java.lang.Comparable interfaces
• Implement the Comparable interface for your
classes where a natural order is possible. If you want
to compare the objects other than the natural order
or if there is no natural ordering present for your
class type, then create separate classes
implementing the Comparator interface. Also, if you
have multiple alternative ways to decide the order,
then go for the Comparator interface.).
Collections Streams and Filters
• The new stream API is provided in the
java.util.stream package introduced in Java 8. The
main type in this package is Stream<T> interface,
which is the stream of object references.

Filter a collection by using lambda
expressions
• The filter() method in the Stream interface
is used for removing the elements that
do not match the given condition.
Use method references with Streams
• When lambda expressions just route the
given parameters, you can use method
references instead.
• Since method references serve as a way to
route the parameters, it is often convenient
(as it results in more concise code) to use
them than their equivalent lambda
expressions.
Describe Stream interface and Stream pipeline
• Stream operations can be “chained” together to form a
pipeline known as “stream pipeline”.
• A stream pipeline has a beginning, middle, and an end:
source (that creates a stream), intermediate operations
(that consist of optional operations that can be chained
together), and terminal operations (that produce a
result).
• The terminal operation can produce a result,
accumulate the stream elements, or just perform an
action.
• You can use a stream only once. Any attempt at reusing
the stream (for example, by calling intermediate or
terminal operations) will result in throwing an
IllegalStateException .

Use the built-in interfaces included in the java.util.function
package such as Predicate,Consumer, Function, and Supplier
Develop code that uses primitive versions of functional
interfaces
Develop code that uses binary versions of functional interfaces
Develop code that uses the UnaryOperator interface
Lambda Built-in Functional Interfaces
• A Consumer “consumes” an object and
returns nothing; hence it has an abstract
method named “ accept ” that takes an
argument of generic type T and has return
type void .
• A Function “operates” on the argument
and returns a result; hence it has an abstract
method named “apply” that takes an
argument of generic type T and has generic
return type R .
• A Supplier “supplies” takes nothing but
returns something; hence it has an abstract
method named “get” that takes no
arguments and returns a generic type T .
• The forEach() method defined in Iterable
(implemented by collection classes) method
accepts a Consumer<T> .
Use the built-in interfaces included in the
java.util.function package such as Predicate,
Consumer, Function, and Supplier
• Built-in functional interfaces Predicate , Consumer ,
Function , and Supplier differ mainly based on the
signature of the abstract method they declare.
• A Predicate tests the given condition and returns true
or false ; hence it has an abstract method named “ test ”
that takes a parameter of generic type T and returns
boolean type.

Develop code that uses primitive versions of functional interfaces
• The built-in interfaces Predicate , Consumer , Function , and Supplier operate on reference type
objects. For primitive types, there are specializations available for int, long, and double types for
these functional interfaces.
• When the Stream interface is used with primitive types, it results in unnecessary boxing and
unboxing of the primitive types to their wrapper types. This results in slower code as well as wastes
memory because the unnecessary wrapper objects get created. Hence, whenever possible, prefer
using the primitive type specializations of the functional interfaces Predicate, Consumer, Function,
and Supplier .
• The primitive versions of the functional interfaces Predicate , Consumer , Function , and Supplier
are available only for int, long and double types (and boolean type in addition to these three types for
Supplier). You have to use implicit conversions to relevant int version when you need to use char,
byte, or short types; similarly, you can use the version for double type when you need to use float .

Develop code that uses the
UnaryOperator interface
• UnaryOperator is a functional
interface and it extends Function
interface.
• The primitive type specializations of
UnaryOperator are IntUnaryOperator,
LongUnaryOperator, and
DoubleUnaryOperator for int, long,
and double types respectively.
Develop code that uses binary versions of
functional interfaces
• The functional interfaces BiPredicate, BiConsumer,
and BiFunction are binary versions of Predicate ,
Consumer, and Function respectively. There is no
binary equivalent for Supplier since it does not take
any arguments. The prefix “Bi” indicates the version
that takes “two” arguments.

Develop code to extract data from an object using peek() and
map() methods including primitive versions of the map()
method
Search for data by using search methods of the Stream classes
including findFirst, findAny, anyMatch, allMatch, noneMatch
Develop code that uses the Optional class
Develop code that uses Stream data methods and calculation
methods
Sort a collection using StreamAPI
Save results to a collection using the collect method and
group/partition data using the Collectors class
Use flatMap() methods in the StreamAPI
Java Stream API
Search for data by using search
methods of the Stream classes
including findFirst, findAny, anyMatch,
allMatch, noneMatch
• You can match for a given predicate in a
stream using the allMatch(), noneMatch(),
and anyMatch() methods. Unlike the
anyMatch() method that returns false when
the stream is empty, the allMatch() and
noneMatch() methods return true if the
stream is empty.
• You can look for elements in a stream
using the findFirst() and findAny() methods.
The findAny() method is faster to use than
the findFirst() method in case of parallel
streams.
• The “match” and “find” methods “short-
circuit”: the evaluation stops once the result
is found and the rest of the stream is not
evaluated.
Develop code to extract data from an object using
peek() and map() methods including primitive
versions of the map() method
• The peek() method is useful for debugging: it helps us
understand how the elements are transformed in the
pipeline.
• You can transform (or just extract) elements in a stream
using map() method

Develop code that uses Stream data
methods and calculation methods
• The Stream<T> interface has data and calculation
methods count(), min() and max() ; you need to
pass a Comparator object as the parameter when
invoking these min() and max() methods.
• The primitive type versions of Stream interface
have the following data and calculation methods:
count(), sum(), average(), min(), and max() .
• The summaryStatistics() method in IntStream,
LongStream, and DoubleStream have methods for
calculating count, sum, average, minimum, and
maximum values of elements in the stream.
Develop code that uses the Optional
class
• When there are no entries in a stream and
operations such as max are called, then instead
of returning null or throwing an exception, the
(better) approach taken in Java 8 is to return
Optional values.
• Primitive type versions of Optional<T> for int,
long, and double are OptionalInteger,
OptionalLong, and OptionalDouble
respectively.
Java Stream API

Save results to a collection using the collect
method and group/partition data using the
Collectors class
• The collect() method of the Collectors class has methods
that support the task of collecting elements to a collection.
• The Collectors class provides methods such as toList(),
toSet(), toMap(), and toCollection() to create a collection
from a stream.
• You can group the elements in a stream using the
Collectors.groupingBy() method and pass the criteria for
grouping (given as a Function ) as the argument.
Use flatMap() method of the Stream API
• The flatMap() method in Stream flattens the streams
that result from mapping each element into one flat
stream.
Sort a collection using Stream API
• One way to sort a collection is to get a
stream from the collection and call
sorted() method on that stream. The
sorted() method sorts the elements in the
stream in natural order (it requires that the
stream elements implements the
Comparable interface).
• When you want to sort elements in the
stream other than the natural order, you
can pass a Comparator object to the
sorted() method.
• The Comparator interface has been
enhanced with many useful static or
default methods in Java 8 such as
thenComparing() and reversed() methods
Java Stream API

Use try-catch and throw statements
Use catch, multi-catch, and finally clauses
UseAutoclose resources with a try-with-resources statement
Create custom exceptions and Auto-closeable resources
Test invariants by using assertions
Exceptions and Assertions
Use catch, multi-catch, and finally
clauses
• A try block can have multiple catch
handlers. If the cause of two or more
exceptions is similar, and the handling code
is also similar, you can consider combining
the handlers and make it into a multi-catch
block.
• A catch block should either handle the
exception or rethrow it. To hide or swallow
an exception by catching an exception and
doing nothing is really a bad practice.
• You can wrap one exception and throw it
as another exception. These two exceptions
become chained exceptions .
• The code inside a finally block will be
executed irrespective of whether a try block
has successfully executed or resulted in an
exception.
Use try-catch and throw statements
• When an exception is thrown from a try block, the JVM
looks for a matching catch handler from the list of catch
handlers in the method call-chain. If no matching handler is
found, that unhandled exception will result in crashing the
application.
• While providing multiple exception handlers (stacked
catch handlers), specific exception handlers should be
provided before general exception handlers.
• You can programmatically access the stack trace using the
methods such as printStackTrace() and getStackTrace(),
which can be called on any exception object.

Use autoclose resources with a try-with-resources statement
• Forgetting to release resources by explicitly calling the close() method is a common mistake.
You can use a try-with-resources statement to simplify your code and auto-close resources.
• You can auto-close multiple resources within a try-with-resources statement. These
resources need to be separated by semicolons in the try-with-resources statement header.
• If a try block throws an exception, and a finally block also throws exception(s), then the
exceptions thrown in the finally block will be added as suppressed exceptions to the
exception that gets thrown out of the try block to the caller.

• It is recommended that you derive custom
exceptions from either the Exception or
RuntimeException class.
• A method’s throws clause is part of the contract
that its overriding methods in derived classes should
obey.
• An overriding method can provide the same throw
clause as the base method’s throws clause or a more
specific throws clause than the base method’s throws
clause.
• The overriding method cannot provide a
more general throws clause or declare to
throw additional checked exceptions when
compared to the base method’s throws
clause.
• For a resource to be usable in a try-with-
resources statement, the class of that
resource must implement the
java.lang.AutoCloseable interface and
define the close() method.
Create custom exceptions and auto-closeable resources

Test invariants by using assertions
• Assertions are condition checks in the program and should be used for explicitly checking the
assumptions you make while writing programs.
• The assert statement is of two forms: one that takes a Boolean argument and one that takes an
additional string argument.
• If the Boolean condition given in the assert argument fails (i.e., evaluates to false), the program will
terminate after throwing an AssertionError . It is not advisable to catch and recover from when an
AssertionError is thrown by the program.
• By default, assertions are disabled at runtime. You can use the command-line arguments of –ea (for
enabling asserts) and –da (for disabling asserts) and their variants when you invoke the JVM.

Create and manage date-based and time-based events
including a combination of date and time into a single object
using LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime, Instant, Period,
and Duration
Work with dates and times across timezones and manage
changes resulting from daylight savings including format date
and times values
Define and create and manage date-based and time-based
events using Instant, Period, Duration, andTemporalUnit
Using the Java SE 8 Date/Time API
• The java.time.Instant class represents a
Unix timestamp.
• The java.time.Period is used to measure
the amount of time in terms of years,
months, and days.
• The java.time.Duration class represents
time in terms of hours, minutes, seconds,
and fraction of seconds.
Work with dates and times across
timezones and manage changes
resulting from daylight savings
including Format date and times
values
• ZoneId identifies a time zone; ZoneOffset
represents time zone offset from
UTC/Greenwich.
Create and manage date-based and time-based
events including a combination of date and time
into a single object using LocalDate, LocalTime,
LocalDateTime, Instant, Period, and Duration
• The Java 8 date and time API uses ISO 8601 as the
default calendar format.
• The java.time.LocalDate class represents a date
without time or time zones; the java.time.LocalTime
class represents time without dates and time zones; the
java.time.LocalDateTime class represents both date and
time without time zones.

Using the Java SE 8 Date/Time API
• ZoneId identifies a time zone; ZoneOffset
represents time zone offset from UTC/Greenwich.
• ZonedDateTime provides support for all three
aspects: date, time, and time zone.
• You have to account for daylight savings time
(DST) when working with different time zones.
• The java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter class
provides support for reading or printing date and
time values in different formats.
• The DateTimeFormatter class provides
predefined constants (such as ISO_DATE and
ISO_TIME ) for formatting date and time values.
• You encode the format of the date or time using
case-sensitive letters to form a date or time
pattern string with the DateTimeFormatter class.
Define and create and manage date-based
and time-based events using Instant, Period,
Duration, and TemporalUnit
• The enumeration java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit
implements the java.time.temporal.TemporalUnit
interface.
• Both TemporalUnit and ChronoUnit deal with
time unit values such as seconds, minutes, and
hours and date values such as days, months, and
years.

Read and write data from the console
Use BufferedReader, BufferedWriter, File, FileReader,
FileWriter, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream,
ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, and
PrintWriter in the java.io package
Java I/O Fundamentals
• Many methods are provided in Console-
support formatted I/O. You can use the
printf() and format() methods available in the
Console class to print formatted text; the
overloaded readLine() and readPassword()
methods take format strings as arguments.
• The template of format specifiers is:
%[flags][width][.precision]datatype_specifierE
ach format specifier starts with the % sign,
followed by flags, width, and precision
information, and ending with a data type
specifier. In the format string, the flags,
width, and precision information are optional
but the % sign and data type specifier are
mandatory.
• Use the readPassword() method for reading
secure strings such as passwords. It is
recommended to use Array ’s fill() method to
“empty” the password read into the character
array (to avoid malicious access to the typed
passwords).
Read and write data from the console
• The public static fields in , out , and err in
java.lang.System class respectively represent the
standard input, output and error streams. System.in
is of type java.io.InputStream and System.out and
System.err are of type java.io.PrintStream .
• You can redirect standard streams by calling the
methods System.setIn , System.setOut and
System.setError .
• You can obtain a reference to the console using
the System.console() method; if the JVM is not
associated with any console, this method will fail
and return null.

• The java.io package has classes
supporting both character streams and byte
streams.
• You can use character streams for text-
based I/O. Byte streams are used for
databased I/O.
• Character streams for reading and writing
are called readers and writers respectively
(represented by the abstract classes of
Reader and Writer).
• Byte streams for reading and writing are
called input streams and output streams
respectively (represented by the abstract
classes of InputStream and OutputStream).
Java I/O Fundamentals
Use BufferedReader, BufferedWriter, File, FileReader, FileWriter, FileInputStream,
FileOutputStream, ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, and PrintWriter in
the java.io package
• You should only use character streams for processing text
files (or human-readable files), and byte streams for data
files. If you try using one type of stream instead of another,
your program won’t work as you would expect; even if it
works by chance, you’ll get nasty bugs. So don’t mix up
streams, and use the right stream for a given task at hand.
• For both byte and character streams, you can use
buffering. The buffer classes are provided as wrapper
classes for the underlying streams. Using buffering will
speed up the I/O when performing bulk I/O operations.
• For processing data with primitive data types and strings,
you can use data streams.
• You can use object streams (classes ObjectInputStream
and ObjectOutputStream) for reading and writing objects in
memory to files and vice versa.

Use Path interface to operate on file and directory paths
Use Files class to check, read, delete, copy, move,
manage metadata of a file or directory
Use StreamAPI with NIO.2
Java File I/O (NIO.2)
Use Files class to check, read, delete, copy,
move, manage metadata of a file or
directory
• You can check the existence of a file using the
exists() method of the Files class.
• The Files class provides the methods
isReadable() , isWritable() , and isExecutable() to
check the ability of the program to read, write,
and execute programmatically, respectively.
• You can retrieve the attributes of a file using
the getAttributes() method.
• You can use the readAttributes() method of
the Files class to read file attributes in bulk.
• The copy() method can be used to copy a file
from one location to another. Similarly, the
move() method moves a file from one location
to another.
Use Path interface to operate on file and
directory paths
• A Path object is a programming abstraction to
represent the path of a file/directory.
• You can get an instance of Path using the get()
method of the Paths class.
• Path provides two methods to compare Path
objects: equals() and compareTo(). Even if two Path
objects point to the same file/directory, the equals()
method is not guaranteed to return true.

• While copying, all the directories (except the
last one, if you are copying a directory) on the
specified path must exist to avoid a
NoSuchFileException .
• Use the delete() method to delete a file; use
the deleteIfExists() method to delete a file only
if it exists.
Use Stream API with NIO.2
• The Files.list() method returns a
Stream<Path>. It does not recursively traverse
the directories in the given Path .
• The Files.walk() method returns a Stream<Path>
by recursively traversing the entries from the given
Path; in one of its overloaded versions, you can
also pass the maximum depth for such traversal
and provide FileVisitOption.FOLLOW_LINKS as the
third option.
• The Files.find() method returns a Stream<Path>
by recursively traversing the entries from the given
Path; it also takes the maximum depth to search, a
BiPredicate , and an optional FileVisitOption as
arguments.
• Files.lines() is a very convenient method to read
the contents of a file. It returns a Stream<String>.
Java File I/O (NIO.2)

Create worker threads using Runnable,Callable, and use an
ExecutorService to concurrently execute tasks
Identify potential threading problems among deadlock,
starvation, livelock, and race conditions
Use synchronized keyword and java.util.concurrent.atomic
package to control the order of thread execution
Use java.util.concurrent collections and classes including
CyclicBarrier and CopyOnWriteArrayList
Use parallel Fork/Join Framework
Use parallel Streams including reduction, decomposition,
merging processes, pipelines, and performance
Java Concurrency
• Always implement the run() method.
The default run() method in Thread does
nothing.
• Call the start() method and not the
run() method directly in code. (Leave it
to the JVM to call the run() method.)
• The Callable interface represents a task
that needs to be completed by a thread.
Once the task completes, the call()
method of a Callable implementation
returns a value.
• The Executor hierarchy abstracts the
lower-level details of multi-threaded
programming and offers high-level user-
friendly concurrency constructs.
Create worker threads using Runnable, Callable,
and use an ExecutorService to concurrently
execute tasks
• You can create classes that are capable of multi-
threading by implementing the Runnable interface or
by extending the Thread class.

Identify potential threading problems
among deadlock, starvation, livelock, and
race conditions
• Concurrent reads and writes to resources may
lead to the race condition problem.
• You must use thread synchronization (i.e., locks)
to access shared values and avoid race conditions.
Java provides thread synchronization features to
provide protected access to shared resources—
namely, synchronized blocks and synchronized
methods.
• Using locks can introduce problems such as
deadlocks. When a deadlock happens, the
process will hang and will never terminate.
• A deadlock typically happens when two
threads acquire locks in opposite order. When
one thread has acquired one lock and waits for
another lock, another thread has acquired that
other lock and waits for the first lock to be
released. So, no progress is made and the
program deadlocks.
• When a change done by a thread is repeatedly
undone by another thread, both the threads are
busy but the application as a whole does not
make progress; this situation is known as a
livelock.
• The situation in which low-priority threads
“starve” for a long time trying to obtain
the lock is known as lock starvation.
Java Concurrency

Use synchronized keyword and
java.util.concurrent.atomic package to
control the order of thread execution
• In synchronized blocks, you use the
synchronized keyword for a reference variable
and follow it by a block of code. A thread has to
acquire a lock on the synchronized variable to
enter the block; when the execution of the block
completes, the thread releases the lock.
• Java provides an efficient alternative in the form
of atomic variables where one needs to acquire
and release a lock just to carry out primitive
operations on variables.
• A lock ensures that only one thread accesses a
shared resource at a time.
• Performing locking and unlocking for
performing operations on primitive
types is inefficient. A better alternative is to use
atomic variables provided in
java.util.concurrent.atomic package including
AtomicBoolean , AtomicInteger ,
AtomicIntegerArray , AtomicLong ,
AtomicLongArray , AtomicReference<V> , and
AtomicReferenceArray<E>.
Java Concurrency

Use java.util.concurrent collections and
classes including CyclicBarrier and
CopyOnWriteArrayList
• Semaphore controls access to one or more
shared resources.
• CountDownLatch allows threads to wait for a
countdown to complete.
• Exchanger supports exchanging data between
two threads.
• Phaser is used to support a synchronization
barrier.
• CyclicBarrier enables threads to wait at a
predefined execution point.
• The java.util.concurrent package provides a
number of classes that are threadsafe
equivalents of the ones provided in the collections
framework classes in the java.util package; for
example, java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
is a concurrent equivalent to java.util.HashMap .
• CopyOnWriteArrayList is similar to ArrayList , but
provides safe concurrent access. When you modify
a CopyOnWriteArrayList, a fresh copy of the
underlying array is created.
Java Concurrency

Use Parallel Fork/Join Framework
• The Fork/Join framework is a portable
means of executing a program with decent
parallelism.
• The framework is an implementation of
the ExecutorService interface and provides
an easy-to-use concurrent platform in order
to exploit multiple processors.
• This framework is very useful for modeling
divide-and-conquer problems.
• The Fork/Join framework uses the work stealing
algorithm: when a worker thread completes its work
and is free, it takes (or “steals”) work from other threads
that are still busy doing some work.
• The work-stealing technique results in decent load
balancing thread management with minimal
synchronization cost.
• ForkJoinPool is the most important class in the
Fork/Join framework. It is a thread pool for running
fork/join tasks—it executes an instance of ForkJoinTask.
It executes tasks and manages their lifecycles.
• ForkJoinTask<V> is a lightweight thread-like entity
representing a task that defines methods such as fork()
and join().
Java Concurrency

Use parallel Streams including
reduction, decomposition, merging
processes, pipelines, and
Performance
• Parallel streams split the elements into
multiple chunks, process each chunk with
different threads, and (if necessary) combine
the results from those threads to evaluate
the final result.
• When you call the stream() method of the
Collection class, you will get a sequential
stream. When you call the parallelStream()
method of the Collection class, you will get a
parallel stream.
• Parallel streams internally use the fork/join
framework. To use parallel streams correctly, the
process steps should consist of stateless and
independent tasks.
• You can convert a sequential stream to a parallel
stream by calling the parallel() method; similarly, you
can convert a parallel stream to a sequential stream
by calling the sequential() method.
• You can check if the stream is sequential or parallel
by calling the isParallel() method.
Java Concurrency

Describe the interfaces that make up the core of the JDBC
API including the Driver, Connection,Statement, and
ResultSet interfaces and their relationship to provider
implementations
Identify the components required to connect to a database
using the DriverManager class including the JDBC URL
Submit queries and read results from the database including
creating statements, returning result sets, iterating through
the results, and properly closing result sets, statements,
and connections
Building Database Applications with JDBC
• The getConnection() method in the
DriverManager class takes three
arguments: a URL string, a username
string, and a password string.
• The syntax of the URL (which needs to
be specified to get the Connection
object) is
jdbc:<subprotocol>:<subname> .
• If the JDBC API is not able to locate the
JDBC driver, it throws a SQLException. If
jars for the drivers are available, they
need to be included in the classpath to
enable the JDBC API to locate the driver.
Identify the components required to connect to
a database using the DriverManager class
including the JDBC URL
• JDBC hides the heterogeneity of all the DBMSs and
offers a single set of APIs to interact with all types of
databases. The complexity of heterogeneous
interactions is delegated to the JDBC driver manager
and JDBC drivers.

• A Statement is a SQL statement that can be used
to communicate a SQL statement to the connected
database and receive results from the database.
There are three types of Statement s:
 Statement : Sends a SQL statement to the
database without any parameters
 PreparedStatement : Represents a
precompiled SQL statement that can be
customized using IN parameters
 CallableStatement : Executes stored
procedures; can handle IN as well as OUT
and INOUT parameters
• A resultset is a table with column heading and
associated values requested by the query.
• The java.sql.Connection interface provides a
channel through which the application and the
database communicate.
• JDBC supports two classes for querying and
updating: Statement and Resultset .
Describe the interfaces that make up the
core of the JDBC API including the Driver,
Connection, Statement, and ResultSet
interfaces and their relationship to provider
implementations

• A ResultSet object maintains a cursor pointing to the current row. Initially, the cursor is set to just
before the first row; calling the next() method advances the cursor position by one row.
• The column index in the ResultSet object starts from 1 ( not from 0).
• You need to call updateRow() after modifying the row contents in a resultset; otherwise, changes
made to the ResultSet object are lost.
• You can use a try-with-resources statement to close resources ( Connection , ResultSet , and
Statement ) automatically.
Submit queries and read results from the database including creating statements,
returning result sets, iterating through the results, and properly closing result sets,
statements, and connections

Read and set the locale by using the Locale object
Create and read a Properties file
Build a resource bundle for each locale and load a
resource bundle in an application
Localization
• The getter methods in the Locale class—such as
getLanguage(), getCountry(), and getVariant() —
return codes; whereas the similar methods of
getDisplayCountry(), getDisplayLanguage(), and
getDisplayVariant() return names .
• The getDefault() method in Locale returns the
default locale set in the JVM. You can change this
default locale to another locale by using the
setDefault() method.
• There are many ways to create or get a Locale
object corresponding to a locale:
• Use the constructor of the Locale class.
• Use the forLanguageTag(String
languageTag) method in the Locale class.
• Build a Locale object by instantiating
Locale.Builder and then call
setLanguageTag() from that object.
• Use the predefined static final constants
for locales in the Locale class.
Read and set the locale by using the Locale
object
• A locale represents a language, culture, or
country; the Locale class in Java provides an
abstraction for this concept.
• Each locale can have three entries: the
language, country, and variant. You can use
standard codes available for language and country
to form locale tags. There are no standard tags for
variants; you can provide variant strings based on
your need.

Localization
• To add support for a new locale, you can extend the
ListResourceBundle class. In this derived class, you
have to override the Object [][] getContents() method.
The returned array must have the list of keys and
values. The keys must be Strings, and values can be
any objects.
• When passing the key string to the getObject()
method to fetch the matching value in the resource
bundle, make sure that the passed keys and the key in
the resource bundle exactly match (the keyname is
case sensitive). If they don’t match, you'll get a
MissingResourceException .
• The naming convention for a fully qualified resource
bundle name is packagequalifier.bundlename + "_" +
language + "_" + country + "_" +
(variant + "_#" | "#") + script + "-" + extensions .
Create and read a Properties file
• A resource bundle is a set of classes or
property files that help define a set of keys and
map those keys to locale-specific values.
• The class ResourceBundle has two derived
classes: PropertyResourceBundle and
ListResourceBundle . You can use
ResourceBundle.getBundle() to get the bundle
for a given locale.
• The PropertyResourceBundle class provides
support for multiple locales in the form
of property files. For each locale, you specify
the keys and values in a property file for that
locale. You can use only String s as keys and
values.

Localization
• Step 2: The last component (the part
separated by _) is dropped and the search is
repeated with the resulting shorter name.
This process is repeated till the last locale
modifier is left.
• Step 3: The search is continued using the full
name of the bundle for the default locale.
• Step 4: Search for the resource bundle with
just the name of the bundle.
• Step 5: The search fails, throwing a
MissingBundleException.
• The getBundle() method takes a
ResourceBundle.Control object as an additional
parameter. By extending this ResourceBundle.Control
class and passing that object, you can control or
customize the resource bundle searching and loading
process.
Build a resource bundle for each locale
and load a resource bundle in an
application
• The process of finding a matching resource
bundle is same for classes extended from
ListResourceBundles as for property files
defined for PropertyResourceBundles.
• Here is the search sequence to look for a
matching resource bundle. Search starts
from Step 1. If at any step the search finds a
match, the resource bundle is loaded.
Otherwise, the search proceeds to the next
step.
• Step 1: The search starts by looking
for an exact match for the resource
bundle with the full name.

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