Studying for Java Certification on the
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Declaration & Access Control:
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/data/arrays.html
Richard Baldwin covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java028.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec1.html#obj1
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0053.shtml
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0087.shtml
Class Modifiers:
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/class/getModifiers.html
Controlling access to members of a class:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/accesscontrol.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java040.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec1.html#obj2
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0056.shtml
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/constructors.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java042.htm#
Default Constructor:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec1.html#obj3
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0050.shtml#Heading143
Jyothi Krishnan
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec1.html#obj4
In that link Jyothi suggests you go to objective 19 which you
can find at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec6.html#obj19
Flow Control:
The Sun tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/while.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java026.htm#
The If-Else Statement:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec2.html#obj5
Bruce Eckel, Thinking In Java:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0045.shtml
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/while.html
Jyothi Krishnan
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec2.html#obj6
Richard Baldwin
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java026.htm#
Flow of Control:
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/java/tij/tij0045.shtml#Heading131
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/definition.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java030.htm
and
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java056.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec2.html#obj7
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java: Chapter 9)
Garbage Collection:
An article from SUN
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/ALT/RefObj/index.html
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec3.html#obj8
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/more/nested.html
Richard Baldwin
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java094.htm
and also
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java095.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec4.html#obj9
A tutorial on packages
http://v2ma09.gsfc.nasa.gov/JavaPackages.html
The Java Language Specification on interfaces:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/html/9.doc.html#238680
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/attributes/cmdLineArgs.html
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/html/3.doc.html#229308
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_keywords.html
Michael Thomas
http://www.michael-thomas.com/java/JCP_Keywords.htm
This topic is covered slightly in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/vars.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java020.htm#variables
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec4.html#obj12
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/vars.html
(Couldn't find any mention of literals)
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java020.htm#
Primitive Types:
(again Couldn't find any mention of literals)
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec4.html#obj13
Bruce Eckel's Thinking In Java:
Chapter 2 "Special case: Primitive Types"
Chapter 3 "Literals"
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/events/intro.html
Richard Baldwin
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java080.htm#
Delegation:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec8.html#obj25
David Reilly
http://www.davidreilly.com/jcb/java107/java107.html
Operators & Assignments:
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html
(nothing on instance of that I could find at Sun)
Richard Baldwin
http://home.att.net/~baldwin.dick/Intro/Java022.htm#
bitwiseoperations:
(nothing on instance of that I could find here either)
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec5.html#obj15
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec5.html#obj16
Michael Thomas
http://www.michael-thomas.com/java/JCP_Operators.htm#
equals():
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html
Richard Baldwin
http://home.att.net/~baldwin.dick/Intro/Java022f.htm
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/arguments.html
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec5.html#obj18
Overriding & Overloading:
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/concepts/index.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java004.htm#
an initial description of oop
(This is general stuff on OOP rather than concentrating on "is a" "has a")
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec6.html#obj19
Java 1.1 Unleashed
http://www.itlibrary.com/reference/library/1575212986/htm/ch05.htm
(See the section on encapsulation)
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/methoddecl.html
Richard Baldwin covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java004.htm#
(This is general stuff on OOP rather than concentrating on "is a" "has a")
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec6.html#obj20
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/more/nested.html
Richard Baldwin
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java094.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec6.html#obj21
Threads:
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/threads/customizing.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.Geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java058.htm#
Two ways to thread:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec7.html#obj22
Thread part of Elliot Rusty Harolds Tutorial Course
http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/course/week11/index.html
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/threads/waitAndNotify.html
Commentary on deprecated Thread methods at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/post1.0/preview/threads.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java058.htm#
the notify() and wait() methods:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec7.html#obj23
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/threads/waitAndNotify.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3797/Java058.htm
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec7.html#obj24
Bruce Eckel Thinking In Java:
Chapter 14
Layout Managers:
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/using.html
Richard Baldwin Covers this topic at
BorderLayout
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java114.htm
FlowLayout
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java116.htm
GridLayout
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7077/Java118.htm
Richard does not appear to cover the GridBagLayout
Jan Newmarsh in Australia has created this page
http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/java/xadvisor/gridbag/gridbag.html
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec8.html#obj25
Packages:
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec9.html#obj28
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/strings/stringsAndJavac.html
(doesn't go into much detail)
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec9.html#obj29
Collections:
The Sun Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/index.html
Jyothi Krishnan on this topic at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/obj_sec10.html#obj30
File Input & Output:
You can browse the samples of the O'Reilly Java I/O book at
http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/books/javaio/index.html
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/
The Java API on the File class at Sun
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html
The JLS on Java IO a bit academic and bare
http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/resources/langspec-1.0/javaio.doc.html
Richard Baldwin on I/O
http://home.att.net/~baldwin.rg/Intermediate/Java060.htm
Joyothi has some handy tables for the I/O classes at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/io.html
The Sun API docs on InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/OutputStreamWriter.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/InputStreamReader.html
JavaCaps on this topic
http://www.javacaps.com/sjpc_io_obj2.html
Everything you could want to know about unicode
http://www.unicode.org/
Sun documentation on internationalization
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/text/stream.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/guide/intl/
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/index.html
The Sun API docs:
Buffered I/O
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/BufferedInputStream.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/BufferedOutputStream.html
Data I/O streams
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/DataInputStream.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/java/io/DataOutputStream.html
This topic is covered in the Sun Tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/
The JLS on Java IO a bit academic and bare
http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/resources/langspec-1.0/javaio.doc.html
Richard Baldwin on I/O
http://home.att.net/~baldwin.rg/Intermediate/Java060.htm
Oreilly have published a book specifically about Java I/O It probably goes into more detail than is necessary for the Certificaiton exam but browsing the online samples might give you some insights. Here is the link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaio/. Free chapter is Network Streams.
Joyothi has some handy tables for the I/O classes at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/3693/io.html