Fundamental Concept For Java Programming

Course Outline
1) introduction 3) object-orientation 4) horizontal libraries

2) language a) objects a) string handling
a) syntax b) classes b) event handling
b) types c) inheritance c) object collections
c) variables d) polymorphism
5) vertical libraries
d) arrays e) access
a) graphical interface
e) operators f) interfaces
b) applets
f) control flow g) exception handling
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Outline: Introduction
An overview of the Java language and its runtime environment.
Main points:
1) Familiarize participants with the language's features, goals, and
documentation.
2) Explains how to set up the Java runtime environment to facilitate the
development and execution of Java code.
3) Describes how to use the Java technology documentation.
4) Provides a simple example on how to write, compile and run a Java
application.
Outline: Language
Introduces procedural aspects of the Java language.
Main points:
1) Basic data type and variables.
2) How to work with variables and arrays.
3) Operators: arithmetic, bitwise, relational, logical, etc.
4) Control structures: selection, iteration, jumps, etc.
Outline: Object-Orientation
Presents object-oriented aspects of the Java language.
Main points:
1) How to encapsulate data and behavior within classes.
2) How to build hierarchies of classes with inheritance.
3) How to determine the behavior of objects at run-time.
4) How to group classes into packages.
5) How to introduce abstraction thorough interfaces.
Outline: Horizontal APIs
API – Application Programming Interface
Horizontal APIs are used across the language.
Presentation of selected horizontal APIs:
1) string handling
2) event handling
3) Object collections
Outline: Vertical APIs
Vertical APIs are designed to perform specific functions.
Presentation of selected vertical APIs:
1) graphical user interface

2) applets
3) input/output
4) networking
Outline: Summary
Revision of the material introduced during the course.
How this course provides a foundation for the remaining courses:
1) distributed programming
2) Java XML processing
3) Java Web Services
4) J2EE web components
5) J2EE business components
Course Resources
1) books
a) Java 2 The Complete Reference, Herbert Schildt, Osborne, 5th
edition, 2002
b) The Java Tutorial, Sun Microsystems,
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/, 2004
c) Thinking in Java, Bruce Ecker, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
2) articles
Links available from the website http://www.emacao.gov.mo.
3) tools
a) JDK 1.5
b) Eclipse IDE
Course Logistics
1) duration - 36 hours
2) activities - lecture (hands-on), development
3) sessions/day - morning 09:00–13:00 and afternoon 14:30–16:30
4) number of sessions - 6 morning and 6 afternoon
5) style - interactive and tutorial
Course Prerequisite
1) some experience in object-oriented programming:
a) C++
b) Delphi
c) any other object-oriented language
2) basic understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Overview
Topics under this module:
1) Java origin and history
2) Java technology
3) Java language
4) Java platform
5) simple Java program
6) Java documentation
7) setting up Java environment
Java Origins
Computer language innovation and development occurs for two
fundamental reasons:
1) to adapt to changing environments and uses

2) to implement improvements in the art of programming
The development of Java was driven by both in equal measures.
Many Java features are inherited from the earlier languages:

B → C → C++ → Java
Before Java: C
Designed by Dennis Ritchie in 1970s.
Before C, there was no language to reconcile: ease-of-use versus power,

safety versus efficiency, rigidity versus extensibility.
BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL optimized one set of traits, but not
the other.
C- structured, efficient, high-level language that could replace assembly

code when creating systems programs.
Designed, implemented and tested by programmers, not scientists.

Before Java: C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979.
Response to the increased complexity of programs and respective

improvements in the programming paradigms and methods:
1) assembler languages
2) high-level languages
3) structured programming
4) object-oriented programming (OOP)
OOP – methodology that helps organize complex programs through the use
of inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism.
C++ extends C by adding object-oriented features.

Java History
Designed by James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank and
Mike Sheridan at Sun Microsystems in 1991.
The original motivation is not Internet: platform-independent software

embedded in consumer electronics devices.
With Internet, the urgent need appeared to break the fortified positions of
Intel, Macintosh and Unix programmer communities.
Java as an “Internet version of C++”? No.
Java was not designed to replace C++, but to solve a different set of
problems. There are significant practical/philosophical differences.
Java Technology
There is more to Java than the language.
Java Technology consists of:

1) Java Programming Language
2) Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
3) Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Java Language Features
1) simple
2) object-oriented
3) robust
4) multithreaded
5) architecture-neutral
6) interpreted and high-performance
7) distributed
8) dynamic
9) secure
Java Language Features 1
1) simple – Java is designed to be easy for the professional programmer to
learn and use.
2) object-oriented – a clean, usable, pragmatic approach to objects, not
restricted by the need for compatibility with other languages.
3) robust – restricts the programmer to find the mistakes early, performs
compile-time (strong typing) and run-time (exception-handling) checks,
manages memory automatically.
4) multithreaded – supports multi-threaded programming for writing
program that perform concurrent computations
5) architecture-neutral – Java Virtual Machine provides a platform-
independent environment for the execution of Java bytecode
6) interpreted and high-performance – Java programs are compiled into an
intermediate representation – bytecode:
a) can be later interpreted by any JVM
b) can be also translated into the native machine code for efficiency.
7) distributed – Java handles TCP/IP protocols, accessing a resource
through its URL much like accessing a local file.
8) dynamic – substantial amounts of run-time type information to verify and
resolve access to objects at run-time.
9) secure – programs are confined to the Java execution environment and
cannot access other parts of the computer.
Execution Platform
What is an execution platform?
1) An execution platform is the hardware or software environment in which a
program runs, e.g. Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris or MacOS.
2) Most platforms can be described as a combination of the operating
system and hardware.
Java Execution Platform
What is Java Platform?
1) A software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based
platforms.
2) Java Platform has two components:
a) Java Virtual Machine (JVM) – interpretation for the Java bytecode,
ported onto various hardware-based platforms.
b) The Java Application Programming Interface (Java API)
Java Execution Platform
Java Platform Independence
Java Program Execution
Java programs are both compiled and interpreted:
Steps:
• write the Java program

• compile the program into bytecode
• execute (interpret) the bytecode on the computer through the Java
Virtual Machine
Compilation happens once.
Interpretation occurs each time the program is executed.

Java Execution Process
Java API
What is Java API?
1) a large collection of ready-made software components that provide

many useful capabilities, e.g. graphical user interface
2) grouped into libraries (packages) of related classes and interfaces
3) together with JVM insulates Java programs from the hardware and
operating system variations
Java Program Types
Types of Java programs:
1) applications – standalone (desktop) Java programs, executed from the
command line, only need the Java Virtual Machine to run
2) applets – Java program that runs within a Java-enabled browser,
invoked through a “applet” reference on a web page, dynamically
downloaded to the client computer
3) servlets – Java program running on the web server, capable of
responding to HTTP requests made through the network
4) etc.
Java Platform Features 1
1) essentials - objects, strings, threads, numbers, input/output, data
structures, system properties, date and time, and others.
2) networking:
1) Universal Resource Locator (URL)
2) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
3) User Datagram Protocol (UDP) sockets
4) Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
3) internationalization - programs that can be localized for users worldwide,
automatically adapting to specific locales and appropriate languages.
Java Platform Features 2
4) security – low-level and high-level security, including electronic
signatures, public and private key management, access control, and
certificates
5) software components – JavaBeans can plug into an existing component
architecture
6) object serialization - lightweight persistence and communication, in
particular using Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
7) Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) - provides uniform access to a
wide range of relational databases
Java Technologies
Different technologies depending on the target applications:
1) desktop applications - Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE)

2) enterprise applications – Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
3) mobile applications – Java 2 Mobile Edition (J2ME)
4) smart card applications – JavaCard
5) etc.
Each edition puts together a large collections of packages offering

functionality needed and relevant to a given application.
The Java Virtual Machine remains essentially the same.

Java Technology: SDK
Exercise: Java Technology
1) Explain the statement “There is more to Java than the Language”.
2) Enumerate and explain Java design goals.
3) How does Java maintain a balance between Interpretation and High
Performance?.
4) Java program is termed “Write once run everywhere”. Explain.
5) Why is it difficult to write viruses and malicious programs with Java?
Simple Java Program
A class to display a simple message:
class MyProgram {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“First Java program.");
}
}
Running the Program
Type the program, save as MyProgram.java.
In the command line, type:
> dir
MyProgram.java
> javac MyProgram.java
> dir
MyProgram.java, MyProgram.class
> java MyProgram
First Java program.
Explaining the Process
1) creating a source file - a source file contains text written in the Java
programming language, created using any text editor on any system.
2) compiling the source file Java compiler (javac) reads the source file
and translates its text into instructions that the Java interpreter can
understand. These instructions are called bytecode.
3) running the compiled program Java interpreter (java) installed takes

as input the bytecode file and carries out its instructions by translating
them on the fly into instructions that your computer can understand.
Java Program Explained
MyProgram is the name of the class:
class MyProgram {
main is the method with one parameter args and no results:
println is a method in the standard System class:

}
}
Classes and Objects
A class is the basic building block of Java programs.
A class encapsulates:
a) data (attributes) and
b) operations on this data (methods)
and permits to create objects as its instances.
Main Method
The main method must be present in every Java application:
1) public static void main(String[] args) where:
a)public means that the method can be called by any object
b)static means that the method is shared by all instances
c)void means that the method does not return any value
2) When the interpreter executes an application, it starts by calling its main
method which in turn invokes other methods in this or other classes.
3) The main method accepts a single argument – a string array, which holds
all command-line parameters.
Exercise: Java Program
1) Personalize the MyProgram program with your name so that it tells you
“Hello, my name is …”
2) Write a program that produces the following output:
Welcome to e-Macao Java Workshop!
I hope you will benefit from the training.
3) Here is a slightly modified version of MyProgram:
class MyProgram2 {
public void static Main(String args) {
system.out.println(“First Java Program!);
}
}
The program has some errors. Fix the errors so that the program
successfully compiles and runs. What were the errors?
Using API Documentation 1
Ability to use Java API Specification is crucial for any practicing programmer.
Here are the steps:
1) download the API documentation from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
2) Extract the archive file
3) open index.html
4) click on API & Language
5) click on Java 2 Platform API Specification
Java 2 Platform API Specification
The window is divided into three panes:
1) specification pane - click on any package, package pane will display all
classes, interfaces, exceptions and errors that belong to that package.
2) package pane - click on any class, class pane will display all information
about the class.
3) class pane – contains such information as:
1) inheritance hierarchy
2) implemented interfaces
3) constructors
4) attributes
5) methods
Java Environment Setup 1
Setting up JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables is necessary for
the Java tools and applications to work properly from any directory.
Steps to carry out:

1) JAVA_HOME variable should point to the top installation directory of Java
environment.
2) PATH should point to the bin directory where the Java Virtual Machine -
interpreter (java), compiler (javac) and other executables are located.
Java Environment Setup 2
! " #
$$ % &'() * + ,
Example:
1) Windows - add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the beginning of the PATH
variable.
2) Linux - include PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:.” in your
/etc/profile or .bashrc files.
To test the environment, open the command window and run:
java -version
The current version number of the installed JVM should appear.

Summary: Introduction
Material covered:
1) What is the origin and history of Java?
2) What is Java Technology and its components?
3) What are the basic features of the Java language?
4) What are the basic features of the Java execution platform?
5) How to write, compile and execute a simple Java application?
6) How to use Java API documentation?
7) How to set up the Java execution environment?
Exercise: API Specification
1) Download and extract the latest JDK 5.0 Documentation.
2) Using the Documentation
a) Locate the java.math package
b) How many classes does it have?
c) List all the classes.
d) List their inheritance hierarchies.
e) List their implemented interfaces.
f) How many constructors does each have?
g) How many fields does each have?
h) How many methods does each have?
- . .
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Language
Java is intrinsically an object-oriented language.
However, for presentation reasons explain it in two parts:
a) procedural part
b) object-oriented part
Language Overview
a) syntax – whitespaces, identifiers, comments, separators, keywords
b) types – simple types byte, short, int, long, float double, char, boolean
c) variables – declaration, initialization, scope, conversion and casting
d) arrays – declaration, initialization, one- and multi-dimensional arrays
e) operators – arithmetic, relational, conditional, shift, logical, assignment
f) control flow – branching, selection, iteration, jumps and returns
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Java Syntax
On the most basic level, Java programs consist of:
a) whitespaces
b) identifiers
c) comments
d) literals
e) separators
f) keywords
g) operators
Each of them will be described in order.

Whitespaces
A whitespace is a space, tab or new line.
Java is a form-free language that does not require special indentation.
A program could be written like this:

class MyProgram {
}
}
It could be also written like this:

class MyProgram { public static void main(String[] args)
{ System.out.println(“First Java program."); } }
Identifiers
Java identifiers:
a) used for class names, method names, variable names
b) an identifier is any sequence of letters, digits, “_” or “$” characters that do
not begin with a digit
c) Java is case sensitive, so value, Value and VALUE are all different.
Seven identifiers in this program:

class MyProgram {
}
}
Comments 1
Three kinds of comments:
1) Ignore the text between /* and */:
/* text */
2) Documentation comment (javadoc tool uses this kind of comment to

automatically generate software documentation):
/** documentation */
3) Ignore all text from // to the end of the line:

// text
Comments 2
/**
* MyProgram implements application that displays
* a simple message on the standard output
device.
*/
class MyProgram {
/* The main method of the class.*/
//display string
}
}
Literals
A literal is a constant value of certain type.
It can be used anywhere values of this type are allowed.
Examples:
a) 100
b) 98.6
c) ‘X’
d) “test”
class MyProgram {
System.out.println(“My first Java program.");
}
}
Separators
() parenthesis lists of parameters in method definitions and invocations,
precedence in expressions, type casts
{} braces block of code, class definitions, method definitions, local scope,
automatically initialized arrays
[] brackets declaring array types, referring to array values
; semicolon terminating statements, chain statements inside the “for”

statement
, comma separating multiple identifiers in a variable declaration
. period separate package names from subpackages and classes,

separating an object variable from its attribute or method
Keywords
Keywords are reserved words recognized by Java that cannot be used as
identifiers. Java defines 49 keywords as follows:
abstract continue goto package synchronize

assert default if private this
boolean do implements protected throw
break double import public throws
byte else instanceof return transient
case extends int short try
catch final interface static void
char finally long strictfp volatile
class float native super while
const for new switch
Exercise: Syntax
1) What's the difference between a keyword and an identifier?
2) What's the difference between an identifier and a literal?
3) What’s the difference between /** text */ and /* text */.
4) Which of these are valid identifiers?
int, anInt, I, i1, 1, thing1, 1thing, one-hundred,
one_hundred, something2do
5) Identify the literals, separators and identifiers in the progam below.

class MyProgram {
int i = 30; int j = i; char c = ‘H’;
System.out.println(“i and j “ + i + “ “ + j);
} }
6) What's the difference between a brace {} and a bracket ()?

("$
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Strong Typing
Java is a strongly-typed language:
a) every variable and expression has a type
b) every type is strictly defined
c) all assignments are checked for type-compatibility
d) no automatic conversion of non-compatible, conflicting types
e) Java compiler type-checks all expressions and parameters
f) any typing errors must be corrected for compilation to succeed
Simple Types
Java defines eight simple types:
1) byte – 8-bit integer type

2) short – 16-bit integer type
3) int – 32-bit integer type
4) long – 64-bit integer type
5) float – 32-bit floating-point type
6) double – 64-bit floating-point type
7) char – symbols in a character set
8) boolean – logical values true and false
Simple Type: byte
8-bit integer type.
Range: -128 to 127.
Example:
byte b = -15;
Usage: particularly when working with data streams.

Simple Type: short
16-bit integer type.
Range: -32768 to 32767.
Example:
short c = 1000;
Usage: probably the least used simple type.

Simple Type: int
Range: -2147483648 to 2147483647.
Example:
int b = -50000;
Usage:
1) Most common integer type.
2) Typically used to control loops and to index arrays.
3) Expressions involving the byte, short and int values are promoted
to int before calculation.
Simple Type: long
Range: -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.
Example:
long l = 10000000000000000;
Usage:
1) useful when int type is not large enough to hold the desired value
Example: long
// compute the light travel distance
class Light {
public static void main(String args[]) {
int lightspeed = 186000;
long days = = 1000;
long seconds = days * 24 * 60 * 60;
long distance = lightspeed * seconds;
System.out.print("In " + days);
System.out.print(" light will travel about
");
System.out.println(distance + " miles.");
}
}
Simple Type: float
32-bit floating-point number.
Range: 1.4e-045 to 3.4e+038.
Example:
float f = 1.5;
Usage:
1) fractional part is needed
2) large degree of precision is not required
Simple Type: double
64-bit floating-point number.
Range: 4.9e-324 to 1.8e+308.
Example:
double pi = 3.1416;
Usage:
1) accuracy over many iterative calculations
2) manipulation of large-valued numbers
Example: double
// Compute the area of a circle.
class Area {
double pi = 3.1416; // approximate pi value
double r = 10.8; // radius of circle
double a = pi * r * r; // compute area
System.out.println("Area of circle is " + a);
}
}
Simple Type: char
16-bit data type used to store characters.
Range: 0 to 65536.
Example:
char c = ‘a’;
Usage:
1) Represents both ASCII and Unicode character sets; Unicode defines a
character set with characters found in (almost) all human languages.
2) Not the same as in C/C++ where char is 8-bit and represents ASCII only.
Example: char
// Demonstrate char data type.
class CharDemo {
char ch1, ch2;
ch1 = 88; // code for X
ch2 = 'Y';
System.out.print("ch1 and ch2: ");
System.out.println(ch1 + " " + ch2);
}
}
Another Example: char
It is possible to operate on char values as if they were integers:
class CharDemo2 {
char c = 'X';
System.out.println("c contains " + c);
c++; // increment c
System.out.println("c is now " + c);
}
}
Simple Type: boolean
Two-valued type of logical values.
Range: values true and false.
Example:
boolean b = (1<2);
Usage:
1) returned by relational operators, such as 1<2
2) required by branching expressions such as if or for
Example: boolean
class BoolTest {
boolean b;
b = false;
System.out.println("b is " + b);
b = true;
System.out.println("b is " + b);
if (b) System.out.println("executed");
b = false;
if (b) System.out.println(“not executed");
System.out.println("10 > 9 is " + (10 > 9));
}
}
Literals Revisited
Literals express constant values.
The form of a literal depends on its type:

1) integer types
2) floating-point types
3) character type
4) boolean type
5) string type
Literals: Integer Types
Writing numbers with different bases:
1) decimal – 123
2) octal – 0173
3) hexadecimal – 0x7B
Integer literals are of type int by default.
Integer literal written with “L” (e.g. 123L) are of type long.
Literals: Floating-Point Types
Two notations:
1) standard – 2000.5
2) scientific – 2.0005E3
Floating-point literals are of type double by default.
Floating-point literal written with “F” (e.g. 2.0005E3F) are of type float.
Literals: Boolean
Two literals are allowed only: true and false.
Those values do not convert to any numerical representation.
In particular:
1) true is not equal to 1

2) false is not equal to 0
Literals: Characters
Character literals belong to the Unicode character set.
Representation:
1) visible characters inside quotes, e.g. ‘a’
2) invisible characters written with escape sequences:
a) \ddd octal character ddd
b) \uxxxx hexadecimal Unicode character xxxx
c) \’ single quote
d) \” double quote
e) \\ backslash
f) \r carriage return
g) \n new line
h) \f form feed
i) \t tab
j) \b backspace
Literals: String
String is not a simple type.
String literals are character-sequences enclosed in double quotes.
Example:
“Hello World!”
Notes:
1) escape sequences can be used inside string literals
2) string literals must begin and end on the same line
3) unlike in C/C++, in Java String is not an array of characters
Exercise: Types
1) What is the value of b in the following code snippet?
byte b = 0;
b += 1;
2) What happens when this code is executed?
char c = -1;
3) Which of the following lines will compile without warning or error. Explain
each line.
float f=1.3;
char c="a";
byte b=257;
boolean b=null;
int i=10;
4) Write a java statement that will print the following line to the console:
To print a ‘ “ ‘, we use the ‘ \“ ‘escape sequence.
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Outline: Variables
1) declaration – how to assign a type to a variable
2) initialization – how to give an initial value to a variable
3) scope – how the variable is visible to other parts of the program
4) lifetime – how the variable is created, used and destroyed
5) type conversion – how Java handles automatic type conversion
6) type casting – how the type of a variable can be narrowed down
7) type promotion – how the type of a variable can be expanded
Variables
Java uses variables to store data.
To allocate memory space for a variable JVM requires:

1) to specify the data type of the variable
2) to associate an identifier with the variable
3) optionally, the variable may be assigned an initial value
All done as part of variable declaration.

Basic Variable Declaration
Basic form of variable declaration:
Variable Declaration
We can declare several variables at the same time:
type identifier [=value][, identifier [=value] …];
Examples:
int a, b, c;
int d = 3, e, f = 5;
byte hog = 22;
double pi = 3.14159;
char kat = 'x';
Constant Declaration
A variable can be declared as final:
final double PI = 3.14;
The value of the final variable cannot change after it has been initialized:
PI = 3.13;
Variable Identifiers
Identifiers are assigned to variables, methods and classes.
An identifier:
1) starts with a letter, underscore _ or dollar $
2) can contain letters, digits, underscore or dollar characters
3) it can be of any length
4) it must not be a keyword (e.g. class)
5) it must be unique in its scope
Examples: identifier, userName, _sys_var1, $change
The code of Java programs is written in Unicode, rather than ASCII, so

letters and digits have considerably wider definitions than just a-z and 0-9.
Naming Conventions
Conventions are not part of the language.
Naming conventions:
1) variable names begin with a lowercase letter

2) class names begin with an uppercase letter
3) constant names are all uppercase
If a variable name consists of more than one word, the words are joined
together, and each word after the first begins with an uppercase letter.
The underscore character is used only to separate words in constants, as

they are all caps and thus cannot be case-delimited.
Variable Initialization
During declaration, variables may be optionally initialized.
Initialization can be static or dynamic:
1) static initialize with a literal:
int n = 1;
2) dynamic initialize with an expression composed of any literals,

variables or method calls available at the time of initialization:
int m = n + 1;
The types of the expression and variable must be the same.

Example: Variable Initialization
class DynamicInit {
double a = 3.0, b = 4.0;
double c = Math.sqrt(a * a + b * b);
System.out.println("Hypotenuse is " + c);
}
}
Variable Scope
Scope determines the visibility of program elements with respect to other
program elements.
In Java, scope is defined separately for classes and methods:
1) variables defined by a class have a 1global2 scope

2) variables defined by a method have a 1local2 scope
We consider the scope of method variables only; class variables will be

considered later.
Variable Scope
Scope Definition
A scope is defined by a block:
{
…
}
A variable declared inside the scope is not visible outside:
{
int n;
}
n = 1;
Scope Nesting
Scopes can be nested:
{ … { … } … }
Variables declared in the outside scope are visible in the inside scope, but
not the other way round:
{
int i;
{
int n = i;
}
int m = n;
}
Example: Variable Scope
class Scope {
int x;
x = 10;
if (x == 10) {
int y = 20;
System.out.println("x and y: " + x + "
" + y);
x = y * 2;
}
System.out.println("x is " + x + “y is” + y);
}
}
Declaration Order
Method variables are only valid after their declaration:
{
int n = m;
int m;
}
Variable Lifetime
Variables are created when their scope is entered by control flow and
destroyed when their scope is left:
1) A variable declared in a method will not hold its value between different
invocations of this method.

2) A variable declared in a block looses its value when the block is left.
3) Initialized in a block, a variable will be re-initialized with every re-entry.
Variable3s lifetime is confined to its scope!

Example: Variable Lifetime
class LifeTime {
int x;
for (x = 0; x < 3; x++) {
int y = -1;
System.out.println("y is: " + y);
y = 100;
System.out.println("y is now: " + y);
}
}
}
Type Differences
Suppose a value of one type is assigned to a variable of another type.
T1 t1;
T2 t2 = t1;
What happens? Different situations:
1) types T1 and T2 are incompatible

2) types T1 and T2 are compatible:
a) T1 and T2 are the same
b) T1 is larger than T2
c) T2 is larger than T1
Type Compatibility
When types are compatible:
1) integer types and floating-point types are compatible with each other
2) numeric types are not compatible with char or boolean
3) char and boolean are not compatible with each other
Examples:
byte b;
int i = b;
char c = b;
Widening Type Conversion
Java performs automatic type conversion when:
1) two types are compatible

2) destination type is larger then the source type
Example:
int i;
double d = i;
Narrowing Type Conversion
When:
1) two types are compatible

2) destination type is smaller then the source type
then Java will not carry out type-conversion:
int i;
byte b = i;
Instead, we have to rely on manual type-casting:
int i;
byte b = (byte)i;
Type Casting
General form: (targetType) value
Examples:
1) integer value will be reduced module byte3s range:
int i;
byte b = (byte) i;
2) floating-point value will be truncated to integer value:
float f;
int i = (int) f;
Example: Type Casting
class Conversion {
byte b;
int i = 257;
double d = 323.142;
System.out.println("\nConversion of int to byte.");
b = (byte) i;
System.out.println("i and b " + i + " " + b);
System.out.println("\ndouble to int.");
i = (int) d;
System.out.println("d and i " + d + " " + i);
}
}
Type Promotion
In an expression, precision required to hold an intermediate value may
sometimes exceed the range of either operand:
byte a = 40;
byte b = 50;
byte c = 100;
int d = a * b / c;
Java promotes each byte operand to int when evaluating the expression.
Type Promotion Rules
1) byte and short are always promoted to int
2) if one operand is long, the whole expression is promoted to long
3) if one operand is float, the entire expression is promoted to float
4) if any operand is double, the result is double
Danger of automatic type promotion:
byte b = 50;
b = b * 2;
What is the problem?

Example: Type Promotion
class Promote {
byte b = 42;
char c = 'a';
short s = 1024;
int i = 50000;
float f = 5.67f;
double d = .1234;
double result = (f * b) + (i / c) - (d * s);
System.out.println("result = " + result);
}
}
Exercise: Variables
1) What’s the difference between widening conversion and casting?
2) What is the output of the program below?.
class MyProgram {
static final double pi = 3.15;
static double radius = 2.78;
pi = 3.14;
double area = pi * radius * radius;
System.out.println("The Area is " + area);
}
}
3) What is the value of c[50] after this declaration:

char[] c = new char[100];
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Arrays
An array is a group of liked-typed variables referred to by a common
name, with individual variables accessed by their index.
Arrays are:
1) declared
2) created
3) initialized
4) used
Also, arrays can have one or several dimensions.

Array Declaration
Array declaration involves:
1) declaring an array identifier

2) declaring the number of dimensions
3) declaring the data type of the array elements
Two styles of array declaration:
type array-variable[];
or
type [] array-variable;
Array Creation
After declaration, no array actually exists.
In order to create an array, we use the new operator:
type array-variable[];
array-variable = new type[size];
This creates a new array to hold size elements of type type, which
reference will be kept in the variable array-variable.
Array Indexing
Later we can refer to the elements of this array through their indexes:
array-variable[index]
The array index always starts with zero!
The Java run-time system makes sure that all array indexes are in the
correct range, otherwise raises a run-time error.
Example: Array Use
class Array {
int monthDays[];
monthDays = new int[12];
monthDays[0] = 31;
monthDays[1] = 28;
monthDays[2] = 31;
monthDays[3] = 30;
monthDays[4] = 31;
monthDays[5] = 30;
…
monthDays[12] = 31;
System.out.print(“April has ”);
System.out.println(monthDays[3] +“ days.”);
}
}
Array Initialization
Arrays can be initialized when they are declared:
int monthDays[] = {31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31};
Comments:
1) there is no need to use the new operator

2) the array is created large enough to hold all specified elements
Example: Array Initialization
class Array {
int mthDys[]=
{31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31};
System.out.print(“April ”);
System.out.println(mthDys[3]+ “ days.”);
}
}
Multidimensional Arrays
Multidimensional arrays are arrays of arrays:
1) declaration
int array[][];
2) creation
int array = new int[2][3];
3) initialization
int array[][] = { {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6} };

Example: Multidimensional Arrays
class Array {
int array[][] = { {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6} };

int i, j, k = 0;
for(i=0; i<2; i++) {

for(j=0; j<3; j++)
System.out.print(array[i][j] + " ");
System.out.println();
}
}
}
Exercise: Arrays
1) Write a program that creates an array of 10 integers with the initial
values of 3.
2) Write a Java program to find the average of a sequence of nonnegative
numbers entered by the user, where the user enters a negative number
to terminate the input. Assume the only method in the class is the main
method.
3) What's the index of the first and the last component of a one hundred
component array?
4) What will happen if you try to compile and run the following code?
public class Q {
public static void main(String argv[]){
int var[]=new int[5];
System.out.println(var[0]);
} }
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Operators Types
Java operators are used to build value expressions.
Java provides a rich set of operators:
1) assignment
2) arithmetic
3) relational
4) logical
5) bitwise
6) other
Operators and Operands
Each operator takes one, two or three operands:
1) a unary operator takes one operand
j++;
2) a binary operator takes two operands
i = j++;
3) a ternary operator requires three operands
i = (i>12) ? 1 : i++;
Assignment Operator
A binary operator:
variable = expression;
It assigns the value of the expression to the variable.
The types of the variable and expression must be compatible.
The value of the whole assignment expression is the value of the expression
on the right, so it is possible to chain assignment expressions as follows:
int x, y, z;
x = y = z = 2;
Arithmetic Operators
Java supports various arithmetic operators for:
1) integer numbers
2) floating-point numbers
There are two kinds of arithmetic operators:
1) basic: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modulo

2) shortcut: arithmetic assignment, increment and decrement
Table: Basic Arithmetic Operators
+ op1 + op2 adds op1 and op2
- op1 – op2 subtracts op2 from op1
* op1 * op2 multiplies op1 by op2
/ op1 / op2 divides op1 by op2
% op1 % op2 computes the remainder of dividing op1 by op2

Arithmetic Assignment Operators
Instead of writing
variable = variable operator expression;
for any arithmetic binary operator, it is possible to write shortly
variable operator= expression;
Benefits of the assignment operators:

1) save some typing
2) are implemented more efficiently by the Java run-time system
Table: Arithmetic Assignments
+= v += expr; v = v + expr;
-= v -= expr; v = v - expr;
*= v *= expr; v = v * expr;
/= v /= expr; v = v / expr;
%= v %= expr; v = v % expr;
Increment/Decrement Operators
Two unary operators:
1) ++ increments its operand by 1

2) -- decrements its operand by 1
The operand must be a numerical variable.
Each operation can appear in two versions:
• prefix version evaluates the value of the operand after performing the
increment/decrement operation
• postfix version evaluates the value of the operand before performing the
increment/decrement operation
Table: Increment/Decrement
++ v++ return value of v, then increment v
++ ++v increment v, then return its value
-- v-- return value of v, then decrement v
-- --v decrement v, then return its value

Example: Increment/Decrement
class IncDec {
int a = 1;
int b = 2;
int c, d;
c = ++b;
d = a++;
c++;
System.out.println(“a= “ + a);
System.out.println(“b= “ + b);
System.out.println(“c= “ + c);
}
}
Relational Operators
Relational operators determine the relationship that one operand has to the
other operand, specifically equality and ordering.
The outcome is always a value of type boolean.
They are most often used in branching and loop control statements.
Table: Relational Operators
== equals to apply to any type
!= not equal to apply to any type
> greater than apply to numerical types only
< less than apply to numerical types only
>= greater than or equal apply to numerical types only
<= less than or equal apply to numerical types only

Logical Operators
Logical operators act upon boolean operands only.
The outcome is always a value of type boolean.
In particular, 1and2 and 1or2 logical operators occur in two forms:
1) full op1 & op2 and op1 | op2 where both op1 and op2 are
evaluated
2) short-circuit - op1 && op2 and op1 || op2 where op2 is only
evaluated if the value of op1 is insufficient to determine the final outcome
Table: Logical Operators
& op1 & op2 logical AND
| op1 | op2 logical OR
&& op1 && op2 short-circuit AND
|| op1 || op2 short-circuit OR
! ! op logical NOT
^ op1 ^ op2 logical XOR

Example: Logical Operators
class LogicalDemo {

int n = 2;
if (n != 0 && n / 0 > 10)
System.out.println("This is true");
else
System.out.println("This is false");
}
}
Bitwise Operators
Bitwise operators apply to integer types only.
They act on individual bits of their operands.
There are three kinds of bitwise operators:
1) basic bitwise AND, OR, NOT and XOR

2) shifts left, right and right-zero-fill
3) assignments bitwise assignment for all basic and shift operators
Table: Bitwise Operators
~ ~ op inverts all bits of its operand
& op1 & op2 produces 1 bit if both operands are 1
| op1 | op2 produces 1 bit if either operand is 1
^ op1 ^ op2 produces 1 bit if exactly one operand is 1
>> op1 >> op2 shifts all bits in op1 right by the value of op2
<< op1 << op2 shifts all bits in op1 left by the value of op2
>>> op1 >>> op2 shifts op1 right by op2 value, write zero on the left
Example: Bitwise Operators
class BitLogic {
String binary[] = { "0000","0001","0010", … };
int a = 3; // 0 + 2 + 1 or 0011 in binary
int b = 6; // 4 + 2 + 0 or 0110 in binary
int c = a | b;
int d = a & b;
int e = a ^ b;
System.out.print("a =" + binary[a]);
System.out.println("and b =" + binary[b]);
System.out.println("a|b = " + binary[c]);
System.out.println("a&b = " + binary[d]);
System.out.println("a^b = " + binary[e]);
}
}
Other Operators
?: shortcut if-else statement
[] used to declare arrays, create arrays, access array elements
. used to form qualified names
(params) delimits a comma-separated list of parameters
(type) casts a value to the specified type
new creates a new object or a new array
instanceof determines if its first operand is an instance of the second

Conditional Operator
General form:
expr1? expr2 : expr3
where:
1) expr1 is of type boolean

2) expr2 and expr3 are of the same type
If expr1 is true, expr2 is evaluated, otherwise expr3 is evaluated.

Example: Conditional Operator
class Ternary {
int i, k;
i = 10;
k = i < 0 ? -i : i;
System.out.print("Abs value of “ + i + " is " + k);
i = -10;
k = i < 0 ? -i : i;
System.out.print("Abs value of “ + i + " is " + k);
}
}
Operator Precedence
Java operators are assigned precedence order.
Precedence determines that the expression
1 + 2 * 6 / 3 > 4 && 1 < 0
if equivalent to
(((1 + ((2 * 6) / 3)) > 4) && (1 < 0))
When operators have the same precedence, the earlier one binds stronger.
Table: Operator Precedence
highest
() [] .
++ -- ~ !
* / %
+ -
>> >>> <<
> >= < <=
== !=
&
^
|
&&
||
?:
= op=
lowest
Exercise: Operators
1) What operators do the code snippet below contain?
arrayOfInts[j] > arrayOfInts[j+1];
2) Consider the following code snippet:
int i = 10;
int n = i++%5;
a) What are the values of i and n after the code is executed?
b) What are the final values of i and n if instead of using the postfix
increment operator (i++), you use the prefix version (++i))?
3) What is the value of i after the following code snippet executes?
int i = 8;
i >>=2;
4) What’s the result of System.out.println(010| 4); ?
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Control Flow
Writing a program means typing statements into a file.
Without control flow, the interpreter would execute these statements in the
order they appear in the file, left-to-right, top-down.
Control flow statements, when inserted into the text of the program,
determine in which order the program should be executed.
Control Flow Statements
Java control statements cause the flow of execution to advance and branch
based on the changes to the state of the program.
Control statements are divided into three groups:
1) selection statements allow the program to choose different parts of the

execution based on the outcome of an expression
2) iteration statements enable program execution to repeat one or more
statements
3) jump statements enable your program to execute in a non-linear fashion
Selection Statements
Java selection statements allow to control the flow of program’s execution
based upon conditions known only during run-time.
Java provides four selection statements:
1) if
2) if-else
3) if-else-if
4) switch
if Statement
General form:
if (expression) statement
If expression evaluates to true, execute statement, otherwise do

nothing.
The expression must be of type boolean.

Simple/Compound Statement
The component statement may be:
1) simple
if (expression) statement;
2) compound
if (expression) {
statement;
}
if-else Statement
Suppose you want to perform two different statements depending on the
outcome of a boolean expression. if-else statement can be used.
General form:
if (expression) statement1
else statement2
Again, statement1 and statement2 may be simple or compound.

if-else-if Statement
General form:
if (expression1) statement1
else if (expression2) statement2
else if (expression3) statement3
…
else statement
Semantics:
1) statements are executed top-down
2) as soon as one expressions is true, its statement is executed
3) if none of the expressions is true, the last statement is executed
Example: if-else-if
class IfElse {
int month = 4;
String season;
if (month == 12 || month == 1 || month == 2)
season = "Winter";
else if(month == 3 || month == 4 || month == 5)
season = "Spring";
season = "Summer";
season = "Autumn";
else season = "Bogus Month";
System.out.println("April is in the " + season + ".");
}
}
switch Statement
switch provides a better alternative than if-else-if when the execution
follows several branches depending on the value of an expression.
General form:
switch (expression) {
case value1: statement1; break;
…
default: statement;
}
switch Assumptions/Semantics
Assumptions:
1) expression must be of type byte, short, int or char
2) each of the case values must be a literal of the compatible type
3) case values must be unique
Semantics:
1) expression is evaluated
2) its value is compared with each of the case values
3) if a match is found, the statement following the case is executed
4) if no match is found, the statement following default is executed
break makes sure that only the matching statement is executed.
Both default and break are optional.

Example: switch 1
class Switch {
int month = 4;
String season;
switch (month) {
case 12:
case 1:
case 2: season = "Winter"; break;
case 3:
case 4:
case 5: season = "Spring"; break;
case 6:
case 7:
case 8: season = "Summer"; break;
Example: switch 2
case 9:
case 10:
case 11: season = "Autumn"; break;
default: season = "Bogus Month";
}
System.out.println("April is in " + season + ".");
}
}
Nested switch Statement
A switch statement can be nested within another switch statement:
switch(count) {
case 1:
switch(target) {
case 0:System.out.println(“target is zero”);
break;
case 1:System.out.println(“target is one”);
break;
}
break;
case 2: …
}
Since, every switch statement defines its own block, no conflict arises
between the case constants in the inner and outer switch statements.
Comparing switch and if
Two main differences:
1) switch can only test for equality, while if can evaluate any kind of
boolean expression
2) Java creates a “jump table” for switch expressions, so a switch
statement is usually more efficient than a set of nested if statements
Iteration Statements
Java iteration statements enable repeated execution of part of a program
until a certain termination condition becomes true.
Java provides three iteration statements:
1) while
2) do-while
3) for
while Statement
General form:
while (expression) statement
where expression must be of type boolean.
Semantics:
1) repeat execution of statement until expression becomes false

2) expression is always evaluated before statement
3) if expression is false initially, statement will never get executed
Simple/Compound Statement
The component statement may be:
1) simple
while (expression) statement;
2) compound
while (expression) {
statement;
}
Example: while
class MidPoint {
int i, j;
i = 100;
j = 200;
while(++i < --j) {
System.out.println(“i is " + i);
System.out.println(“j is " + j);
}
System.out.println(“The midpoint is " + i);
}
}
do-while Statement
If a component statement has to be executed at least once, the do-while
statement is more appropriate than the while statement.
General form:
do statement
while (expression);
where expression must be of type boolean.
Semantics:
1) repeat execution of statement until expression becomes false

2) expression is always evaluated after statement
3) even if expression is false initially, statement will be executed
Example: do-while
class DoWhile {
int i;
i = 0;
do
i++;
while ( 1/i < 0.001);
System.out.println(“i is “ + i);
}
}
for Statement
When iterating over a range of values, for statement is more suitable to use
then while or do-while.
General form:
for (initialization; termination; increment)

statement
where:
1) initialization statement is executed once before the first iteration

2) termination expression is evaluated before each iteration to
determine when the loop should terminate
3) increment statement is executed after each iteration
for Statement Semantics
This is how the for statement is executed:
1) initialization is executed once

2) termination expression is evaluated:
a) if false, the statement terminates
b) otherwise, continue to (3)
3) increment statement is executed
4) component statement is executed
5) control flow continues from (2)
Loop Control Variable
The for statement may include declaration of a loop control variable:
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {

…
}
The variable does not exist outside the for statement.

Example: for
class FindPrime {
int num = 14;
boolean isPrime = true;
for (int i=2; i < num/2; i++) {
if ((num % i) == 0) {
isPrime = false;
break;
}
}
if (isPrime) System.out.println("Prime");
else System.out.println("Not Prime");
}
}
Many Initialization/Iteration Parts
The for statement may include several initialization and iteration
parts.
Parts are separated by a comma:
int a, b;
for (a = 1, b = 4; a < b; a++, b--) {

…
}
for Statement Variations
The for statement need not have all components:
class ForVar {
int i = 0;
boolean done = false;
for( ; !done; ) {
System.out.println("i is " + i);
if(i == 10) done = true;
i++;
}
}
}
Empty for
In fact, all three components may be omitted:
public class EmptyFor {

int i = 0;
for (; ;) {
System.out.println(“Infinite Loop “ + i);
}
}
}
Jump Statements
Java jump statements enable transfer of control to other parts of program.
Java provides three jump statements:
1) break
2) continue
3) return
In addition, Java supports exception handling that can also alter the control
flow of a program. Exception handling will be explained in its own section.
break Statement
The break statement has three uses:
1) to terminate a case inside the switch statement

2) to exit an iterative statement
3) to transfer control to another statement
(1) has been described.
We continue with (2) and (3).

Loop Exit with break
When break is used inside a loop, the loop terminates and control is
transferred to the following instruction.
class BreakLoop {
for (int i=0; i<100; i++) {
if (i == 10) break;
System.out.println("i: " + i);
}
System.out.println("Loop complete.");
}
}
break in Nested Loops
Used inside nested loops, break will only terminate the innermost loop:
class NestedLoopBreak {
for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
System.out.print("Pass " + i + ": ");
for (int j=0; j<100; j++) {
if (j == 10) break;
System.out.print(j + " ");
}
}
System.out.println("Loops complete.");
}
}
Control Transfer with break
Java does not have an unrestricted “goto” statement, which tends to
produce code that is hard to understand and maintain.
However, in some places, the use of gotos is well justified. In particular,

when breaking out from the deeply nested blocks of code.
break occurs in two versions:
1) unlabelled
2) labeled
The labeled break statement is a “civilized” replacement for goto.

Labeled break
General form:
break label;
where label is the name of a label that identifies a block of code:
label: { … }
The effect of executing break label; is to transfer control immediately

after the block of code identified by label.
Example: Labeled break
class Break {
boolean t = true;
first: {
second: {
third: {
System.out.println("Before the break.");
if (t) break second;
System.out.println("This won't execute");
}
System.out.println("This won't execute");
}
System.out.println(“After second block.");
}
} }
Example: Nested Loop break
class NestedLoopBreak {
outer: for (int i=0; i<3; i++) {
for (int j=0; j<100; j++) {
if (j == 10) break outer; // exit both loops
}
System.out.println("This will not print");
}
System.out.println("Loops complete.");
}
}
break Without Label
It is not possible to break to any label which is not defined for an enclosing
block. Trying to do so will result in a compiler error.
class BreakError {
one: for(int i=0; i<3; i++) {
}
for (int j=0; j<100; j++) {
if (j == 10) break one;
}
}
}
continue Statement
The break statement terminates the block of code, in particular it terminates
the execution of an iterative statement.
The continue statement forces the early termination of the current iteration
to begin immediately the next iteration.
Like break, continue has two versions:
1) unlabelled – continue with the next iteration of the current loop

2) labeled – specifies which enclosing loop to continue
Example: Unlabeled continue
class Continue {
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
System.out.print(i + " ");
if (i%2 == 0) continue;
System.out.println("");
}
}
}
Example: Labeled continue
class LabeledContinue {
outer: for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
for (int j=0; j<10; j++) {
if (j > i) {
continue outer;
}
System.out.print(" " + (i * j));
}
}
}
}
Return Statement
The return statement is used to return from the current method: it causes
program control to transfer back to the caller of the method.
Two forms:
1) return without value
return;
2) return with value
return expression;
Example: Return
class Return {
boolean t = true;
System.out.println("Before the return.");
if (t) return; // return to caller
System.out.println("This won't execute.");
}
}
Exercise: Control Flow
1) Write a program that prints all the prime numbers between 1 and 49 to
the console.
2) Write a program that prints the first 20 Fibonacci numbers.

The Fibonacci numbers are defined as follows:
The zeroth Fibonacci number is 1.
The first Fibonacci number is also 1.
The second Fibonacci number is 1 + 1 = 2.
The third Fibonacci number is 1 + 2 = 3.
In other words, except for the first two numbers each Fibonacci number
is the sum of the two previous numbers.
4+7 4
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Data versus Operations
Data (nouns) versus operations (verbs):
data1
… nouns
dataN
operation1 { … }
… verbs
operationN { … }
Procedural Programming
Procedural programming is verb-oriented:
1) decomposition around operations

2) operation are divided into smaller operations
Programming Languages:
1) C
2) Pascal
3) Fortran, etc.
Example: Procedural Program
program AddNums {
Integer a;
Integer b;
a = 100;
b = 200;
midPoint(a, b);
procedure midPoint(Integer a, Integer b) {

while(a < b) {
println(“a is " + a); a = a+1;
println(“b is " + b); b = b-1;
}
}
}
Drawbacks
1) data is given a second-class status when compared with operations
2) difficult to relate to the real world – there are no functions in real world
3) difficult to create new data types – reduces extensibility
4) programs are difficult to debug – little restriction to data access
5) programs are hard to understand – many variables have global scope
6) programs are hard to reuse – data/functions are mutually dependent
7) little support for developing and comprehending really large programs
8) top-down development approach tends to produce monolithic programs
What is an Object?
Real world objects are things that have:
1) state
2) behavior
Example: your dog:
1) state – name, color, breed, sits?, barks?, wages tail?, runs?

2) behavior – sitting, barking, waging tail, running
A software object is a bundle of variables (state) and methods (operations).

What is a Class?
A class is a blueprint that defines the variables and methods common to all
objects of a certain kind.
Example: ‘your dog’ is a object of the class Dog.
An object holds values for the variables defines in the class.
An object is called an instance of the Class

Objects versus Classes
1) operations: changeGears, brake, changeCadence

2) variables: currentSpeed, currentCadence, currentGear
3) static variable: numberOfGears
It holds the same value for all objects of the class.
Object-Oriented Programming
Programming defined in terms:
1) objects (nouns) and

2) relationships between objects
Object-Oriented programming languages:
1) SmallTalk
2) C++
3) C#
4) Java
Object-Oriented Concepts
Three main concepts:
1) encapsulation
2) inheritance
3) polymorphism
Encapsulation
Illustration:
• Enclose data inside an object.

• Along with data, include operations on this data.
• Data cannot be accessed from outside except through the operations.
• Provides data security and facilitates code reuse.
• Operations provide the interface - internal state can change without
affecting the user as long as the interface does not change.
Encapsulation 1
Encapsulation 2
Encapsulation 3
Encapsulation 4
Encapsulation 5
Encapsulation 6
Encapsulation 7
Encapsulation 8
Inheritance
Features:
1) a class obtains variables and
methods from another class
2) the former is called sub-
class, the latter super-class
3) a sub-class provides a
specialized behavior with
respect to its super-class
4) inheritance faciliates code
reuse and avoids duplication
of data
Inheritance 1
Inheritance 2
Inheritance 3
Inheritance 4
Polymorphism
Polymorphism = many different (poly) forms of objects that share a common
interface respond differently when a method of that interface is invoked.
Polymorphism is enabled by inheritance:
1) a super-class defines an interface that all sub-classes must follow

2) it is up to the sub-classes how this interface is implemented; a sub-
class may override methods of its super-class
Therefore, objects from the classes related by inheritance may receive the
same requests but respond to such requests in their own ways.
Polymorphism 1
Polymorphism 2
Polymorphism 3
Polymorphism 4
Polymorphism 5
Polymorphism 6
Polymorphism 7
Exercise: OOP Concepts
1) Why Object-oriented programming?
2) Explain the three main concepts of Object-orientation.
3) How does Object-orientation enables data security?
4) Explain how to achieve Polymorphism through Inheritance.
4+7
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Objects
Everything in Java is an object.
Well ... almost.
Object lifecycle:
1) creation
2) usage
3) destruction
Object Creation
A variable s is declared to refer to the objects of type/class String:
String s;
The value of s is null; it does not yet refer to any object.
A new String object is created in memory with initial “abc” value:
String s = new String(“abc”);
Now s contains the address of this new object.

Object Usage
Objects are used mostly through variables.
Four usage scenarios:
1) one variable, one object

2) two variables, one object
3) two variables, two objects
4) one variable, two objects
One Variable, One Object
One variable, one object:
What can you do with the object addressed by s?
1) Check the length: s.length() == 3
2) Return the substring: s.substring(2)
3) etc.
Depending what is allowed by the definition of String.

Two Variables, One Object
Two variables, one object:
String s1 = new String(“abc”);

String s2;
Assignment copies the address, not value:
s2 = s1;
Now s1 and s2 both refer to one object. After
s1 = null;
s2 still points to this object.

Two Variables, Two Objects
Two variables, two objects:

s1 and s2 objects have initially the same values:
s1.equals(s2) == true
But they are not the same objects:
(s1 == s2) == false
They can be changed independently of each other.

One Variable, Two Objects
One variable, two objects:

s = new String(“cba”);
The “abc” object is no longer accessible through any variable.

Object Destruction
A program accumulates memory through its execution.
Two mechanism to free memory that is no longer need by the program:
1) manual – done in C/C++

2) automatic – done in Java
In Java, when an object is no longer accessible through any variable, it is

eventually removed from the memory by the garbage collector.
Garbage collector is parts of the Java Run-Time Environment.

Exercise: Objects
1) Explain in detail the lifecycle of an object, making reference to it’s
a) creation
b) usage and
c) destruction
2) What is garbage collection?
5
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Class Outline
1) class definition
a) attributes
b) methods
c) constructors
2) method overloading
3) method communication
a) passing arguments
b) returning results
4) recursive methods
5) arrays as object
6) static components
7) nested and internal classes
Class
A basis for the Java language.
Each concept we wish to describe in Java must be included inside a class.
A class defines a new data type, whose values are objects:
1) a class is a template for objects

2) an object is an instance of a class
Class Definition
A class contains a name, several variable declarations (instance variables)
and several method declarations. All are called members of the class.
General form of a class:
class classname {
type instance-variable-1;
…
type instance-variable-n;
type method-name-1(parameter-list) { … }
type method-name-2(parameter-list) { … }
…
type method-name-m(parameter-list) { … }
}
Example: Class
A class with three variable members:
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
}
A new Box object is created and a new value assigned to its width variable:
Box myBox = new Box();

myBox.width = 100;
Example: Class Usage
class BoxDemo {
Box mybox = new Box();
double vol;
mybox.width = 10;
mybox.height = 20;
mybox.depth = 15;
vol = mybox.width * mybox.height * mybox.depth;

System.out.println("Volume is " + vol);
}
}
Compilation and Execution
Place the Box class definitions in file Box.java:
class Box { … }
Place the BoxDemo class definitions in file BoxDemo.java:
class BoxDemo {
public static void main(…) { … }
}
Compilation and execution:
> javac BoxDemo.java

> java BoxDemo
Variable Independence 1
Each object has its own copy of the instance variables: changing the
variables of one object has no effect on the variables of another object.
Consider this example:
class BoxDemo2 {
Box mybox1 = new Box();
double vol;
mybox1.width = 10;
mybox1.height = 20;
mybox1.depth = 15;
Variable Independence 2
mybox2.width = 3;
mybox2.height = 6;
mybox2.depth = 9;
vol = mybox1.width * mybox1.height * mybox1.depth;

vol = mybox2.width * mybox2.height * mybox2.depth;

}
}
What are the printed volumes of both boxes?

Declaring Objects
Obtaining objects of a class is a two-stage process:
1) Declare a variable of the class type:
Box myBox;
The value of myBox is a reference to an object, if one exists, or null.

At this moment, the value of myBox is null.
2) Acquire an actual, physical copy of an object and assign its address to

the variable. How to do this?
Operator new
Allocates memory for a Box object and returns its address:
Box myBox = new Box();
The address is then stored in the myBox reference variable.
Box() is a class constructor - a class may declare its own constructor or

rely on the default constructor provided by the Java environment.
Memory Allocation
Memory is allocated for objects dynamically.
This has both advantages and disadvantages:
1) as many objects are created as needed

2) allocation is uncertain – memory may be insufficient
Variables of simple types do not require new:
int n = 1;
In the interest of efficiency, Java does not implement simple types as

objects. Variables of simple types hold values, not references.
Assigning Reference Variables
Assignment copies address, not the actual value:
Box b1 = new Box();

Box b2 = b1;
Both variables point to the same object.
Variables are not in any way connected. After
b1 = null;
b2 still refers to the original object.

Methods
General form of a method definition:
type name(parameter-list) {
… return value; …
}
Components:
1) type - type of values returned by the method. If a method does not
return any value, its return type must be void.
2) name is the name of the method
3) parameter-list is a sequence of type-identifier lists separated by
commas
4) return value indicates what value is returned by the method.
Example: Method 1
Classes declare methods to hide their internal data structures, as well as for
their own internal use:
Within a class, we can refer directly to its member variables:
class Box {
double width, height, depth;
void volume() {
System.out.print("Volume is ");
System.out.println(width * height * depth);
}
}
Example: Method 2
When an instance variable is accessed by code that is not part of the class
in which that variable is defined, access must be done through an object:
class BoxDemo3 {
mybox1.width = 10; mybox2.width = 3;
mybox1.height = 20; mybox2.height = 6;
mybox1.depth = 15; mybox2.depth = 9;
mybox1.volume();
mybox2.volume();
}
}
Value-Returning Method 1
The type of an expression returning value from a method must agree with
the return type of this method:
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
double volume() {
return width * height * depth;
}
}
class BoxDemo4 {
double vol;
mybox1.width = 10;
mybox2.width = 3;
mybox1.height = 20;
mybox2.height = 6;
mybox1.depth = 15;
mybox2.depth = 9;
The type of a variable assigned the value returned by a method must agree
with the return type of this method:
vol = mybox1.volume();
}
}
Parameterized Method
Parameters increase generality and applicability of a method:
1) method without parameters
int square() { return 10*10; }
2) method with parameters
int square(int i) { return i*i; }
Parameter: a variable receiving value at the time the method is invoked.
Argument: a value passed to the method when it is invoked.

Example: Parameterized Method 1
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
double volume() {
}
void setDim(double w, double h, double d) {

width = w; height = h; depth = d;
}
}
Example: Parameterized Method 2
class BoxDemo5 {
double vol;
mybox1.setDim(10, 20, 15);

mybox2.setDim(3, 6, 9);
}
}
Constructor
A constructor initializes the instance variables of an object.
It is called immediately after the object is created but before the new
operator completes.
1) it is syntactically similar to a method:

2) it has the same name as the name of its class
3) it is written without return type; the default return type of a class
constructor is the same class
When the class has no constructor, the default constructor automatically

initializes all its instance variables with zero.
Example: Constructor 1
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
Box() {
System.out.println("Constructing Box");
width = 10; height = 10; depth = 10;
}
double volume() {
}
}
Example: Constructor 2
class BoxDemo6 {
double vol;
}
}
Parameterized Constructor 1
So far, all boxes have the same dimensions.
We need a constructor able to create boxes with different dimensions:
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;
Box(double w, double h, double d) {

}
double volume() { return width * height * depth; }

}
Parameterized Constructor 2
class BoxDemo7 {
Box mybox1 = new Box(10, 20, 15);
double vol;
}
}
finalize() Method
A constructor helps to initialize an object just after it has been created.
In contrast, the finalize method is invoked just before the object is

destroyed:
1) implemented inside a class as:
protected void finalize() { … }
2) implemented when the usual way of removing objects from memory

is insufficient, and some special actions has to be carried out
How is the finalize method invoked?

Garbage Collection
Garbage collection is a mechanism to remove objects from memory when
they are no longer needed.
Garbage collection is carried out by the garbage collector:
1) The garbage collector keeps track of how many references an object has.
2) It removes an object from memory when it has no longer any references.
3) Thereafter, the memory occupied by the object can be allocated again.
4) The garbage collector invokes the finalize method.
Keyword this
Keyword this allows a method to refer to the object that invoked it.
It can be used inside any method to refer to the current object:
Box(double width, double height, double depth) {

this.width = width;
this.height = height;
this.depth = depth;
}
The above use of this is redundant but correct.
When is this really needed?

Instance Variable Hiding
Variables with the same names:
1) it is illegal to declare two local variables with the same name inside the
same or enclosing scopes
2) it is legal to declare local variables or parameters with the same name as
the instance variables of the class.
As the same-named local variables/parameters will hide the instance

variables, using this is necessary to regain access to them:
Box(double width, double height, double depth) {

this.width = width;
this.height = height;
this.depth = depth;
}
Example: Stack 1
A stack hold data in the first-in-last-out order.
Here is the implementation of a 10-element stack:
class Stack {
int stck[] = new int[10];
int tos;
Stack() {
tos = -1;
}
Example: Stack 2
void push(int item) {
if (tos==9) System.out.println("Stack is full.");
else stck[++tos] = item;
}
int pop() {
if (tos < 0) {
System.out.println("Stack underflow.");
return 0;
}
else return stck[tos--];
}
}
Example: Stack 3
class TestStack {
Stack mystack1 = new Stack();
Stack mystack2 = new Stack();
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) mystack1.push(i);
System.out.println("Stack in mystack1:");
for(int i=0; i<10; i++)
System.out.println(mystack1.pop());
for(int i=0; i<10; i++)
}
}
Method Overloading
It is legal for a class to have two or more methods with the same name.
However, Java has to be able to uniquely associate the invocation of a

method with its definition relying on the number and types of arguments.
Therefore the same-named methods must be distinguished:

1) by the number of arguments, or
2) by the types of arguments
Overloading and inheritance are two ways to implement polymorphism.

Example: Overloading 1
class OverloadDemo {
void test() {
System.out.println("No parameters");
}
void test(int a) {
System.out.println("a: " + a);
}
void test(int a, int b) {
System.out.println("a and b: " + a + " " + b);
}
double test(double a) {
System.out.println("double a: " + a); return a*a;
}
}
class Overload {
OverloadDemo ob = new OverloadDemo();
double result;
ob.test();
ob.test(10);
ob.test(10, 20);
result = ob.test(123.2);
System.out.println("ob.test(123.2): " + result);
}
}
Different Result Types
Different result types are insufficient.
The following will not compile:
double test(double a) {
System.out.println("double a: " + a);
return a*a;
}
int test(double a) {
System.out.println("double a: " + a);
return (int) a*a;
}
Overloading and Conversion 1
When an overloaded method is called, Java looks for a match between the
arguments used to call the method and the method’s parameters.
When no exact match can be found, Java’s automatic type conversion can
aid overload resolution:
class OverloadDemo {
void test() {
System.out.println("No parameters");
}
void test(int a, int b) {
System.out.println("a and b: " + a + " " + b);
}
Overloading and Conversion 2
void test(double a) {
System.out.println("Inside test(double) a: " + a);
}
}
class Overload {
OverloadDemo ob = new OverloadDemo();
int i = 88;
ob.test();
ob.test(10, 20);
ob.test(i);
ob.test(123.2);
}
}
Overloading and Polymorphism
In the languages without overloading, methods must have a unique names:
int abs(int i)
long labs(int i)
float fabs(int i)
Java enables logically-related methods to occur under the same name:
static int abs(int i)

static long abs(long i)
static float abs(float i)
Constructor Overloading
Why overload constructors? Consider this:
class Box {

}
double volume() {
}
}
All Box objects can be created in one way: passing all three dimensions.
Three constructors: 3-parameter, 1-parameter, parameter-less.
class Box {
}
Box() {
width = -1; height = -1; depth = -1;
}
Box(double len) {
width = height = depth = len;
}
double volume() { return width * height * depth; }
}
class OverloadCons {
Box mycube = new Box(7);
double vol;
System.out.println("Volume of mybox1 is " + vol);
vol = mycube.volume();
System.out.println("Volume of mycube is " + vol);
}
}
Object Argument 1
So far, all method received arguments of simple types.
They may also receive an object as an argument. Here is a method to check

if a parameter object is equal to the invoking object:
class Test {
int a, b;
Test(int i, int j) {
a = i; b = j;
}
boolean equals(Test o) {
if (o.a == a && o.b == b) return true;
else return false;
}
}
Object Argument 2
class PassOb {
Test ob1 = new Test(100, 22);
Test ob2 = new Test(100, 22);
Test ob3 = new Test(-1, -1);
System.out.println("ob1==ob2: " + ob1.equals(ob2));
System.out.println("ob1==ob3: " + ob1.equals(ob3));
}
}
Passing Object to Constructor 1
A special case of object-passing is passing an object to the constructor.
This is to initialize one object with another object:
class Box {
Box(Box ob) {
width = ob.width;
height = ob.height;
depth = ob.depth;
}
width = w;
height = h;
depth = d;
}
double volume() {
}
}
class OverloadCons2 {
Box mybox2 = new Box(mybox1);
double vol;
}
}
Argument-Passing
Two types of variables:
1) simple types
2) class types
Two corresponding ways of how the arguments are passed to methods:
1) by value a method receives a cope of the original value;

parameters of simple types
2) by reference a method receives the memory address of the
original value, not the value itself; parameters of class types
Simple Type Argument-Passing 1
Passing arguments of simple types takes place by value:
class Test {
void meth(int i, int j) {
i *= 2;
j /= 2;
}
}
Simple Type Argument-Passing 2
With by-value argument-passing what occurs to the parameter that receives
the argument has no effect outside the method:
class CallByValue {
Test ob = new Test();
int a = 15, b = 20;
System.out.print("a and b before call: “);
System.out.println(a + " " + b);
ob.meth(a, b);
System.out.print("a and b after call: ");
}
}
Class Type Argument-Passing 1
Objects are passed to the methods by reference: a parameter obtains the
same address as the corresponding argument:
class Test {
int a, b;
Test(int i, int j) {
a = i; b = j;
}
void meth(Test o) {
o.a *= 2; o.b /= 2;
}
}
Class Type Argument-Passing 2
As the parameter hold the same address as the argument, changes to the
object inside the method do affect the object used by the argument:
class CallByRef {
Test ob = new Test(15, 20);
System.out.print("ob.a and ob.b before call: “);
System.out.println(ob.a + " " + ob.b);
ob.meth(ob);
System.out.print("ob.a and ob.b after call: ");
System.out.println(ob.a + " " + ob.b);
}
}
Returning Objects 1
So far, all methods returned no values or values of simple types.
Methods may also return objects:
class Test {
int a;
Test(int i) {
a = i;
}
Test incrByTen() {
Test temp = new Test(a+10);
return temp;
}
}
Returning Objects 2
Each time a method incrByTen is invoked a new object is created and a
reference to it is returned:
class RetOb {
Test ob1 = new Test(2);
Test ob2;
ob2 = ob1.incrByTen();
System.out.println("ob1.a: " + ob1.a);
System.out.println("ob2.a: " + ob2.a);
ob2 = ob2.incrByTen();
System.out.print("ob2.a after second increase: “);
System.out.println(ob2.a);
}
}
Recursion
A recursive method is a method that calls itself:
What happens then?
1) all method parameters and local variables are allocated on the stack
2) arguments are prepared in the corresponding parameter positions
3) the method code is executed for the new arguments
4) upon return, all parameters and variables are removed from the stack
5) the execution continues immediately after the invocation point
Example: Recursion
class Factorial {
int fact(int n) {
if (n==1) return 1;
return fact(n-1) * n;
}
}
class Recursion {
Factorial f = new Factorial();
System.out.print("Factorial of 5 is ");
System.out.println(f.fact(5));
}
}
Example: Recursion and Arrays 1
A method that recursively prints out a given number of elements in a table:
class RecTest {
int values[];
RecTest(int i) {
values = new int[i];
}
void printArray(int i) {
if (i==0) return;
else printArray(i-1);
System.out.print("[" + (i-1) + "] ");
System.out.println(values[i-1]);
}
}
Example: Recursion and Arrays 2
class Recursion2 {
RecTest ob = new RecTest(10);
int i;
for(i=0; i<10; i++)
ob.values[i] = i;
ob.printArray(10);
}
}
Arrays Revisited
All arrays are implemented as objects.
In particular, all arrays have the length attribute to return the number of
elements that an array may hold:
class Length {
int a1[] = new int[10];
int a2[] = {3, 5, 7, 1, 8, 99, 44, -10};
int a3[] = {4, 3, 2, 1};
System.out.println("length of a1 is " + a1.length);
}
}
Example: Arrays as Objects 1
An improved Stack example, able to handle stacks of any size:
class Stack {
private int stck[];
private int tos;
Stack(int size) {
stck = new int[size]; tos = -1;
}
void push(int item) {

if (tos==stck.length-1)
System.out.println("Stack is full.");
}
int pop() {
if (tos < 0) {
return 0;
}
else
return stck[tos--];
}
}
class TestStack2 {
Stack mystack1 = new Stack(5);
Stack mystack2 = new Stack(8);
for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
for (int i=0; i<8; i++)
}
}
Static Class Members
Normally, the members of a class (its variables and methods) may be only
used through the objects of this class.
Static members are independent of the objects:
1) variables
2) methods
3) initialization block
All declared with the static keyword.

Static Variables
Static variable:
static int a;
Essentially, it a global variable shared by all instances of the class.
It cannot be used within a non-static method.

Static Methods
Static method:
static void meth() { … }
Several restrictions apply:
• can only call static methods

• must only access static variables
• cannot refer to this or super in any way
Static Block
Static block:
static { … }
This is where the static variables are initialized.
The block is executed exactly once, when the class is first loaded.
Example: Static 1
class UseStatic {
static int a = 3;
static int b;
static void meth(int x) {
System.out.print("x = " + x + “ a = “ + a);
System.out.println(“ b = " + b);
}
static {
System.out.println("Static block initialized.");
b = a * 4;
}
meth(42);
}
}
Static Member Usage 1
How to use static members outside their class?
Consider this class:
class StaticDemo {
static int a = 42;
static int b = 99;
static void callme() {
System.out.println("a = " + a);
}
}
Static Member Usage 2
Static variables/method are used through the class name:
StaticDemo.a
StaticDemo.callme()
Example:
class StaticByName {
StaticDemo.callme();
System.out.println("b = " + StaticDemo.b);
}
}
Nested Classes
It is possible to define a class within a class – nested class.
The scope of the nested class is its enclosing class: if class B is defined
within class A then B is known to A but not outside.
Access rights:
1) a nested class has access to all members of its enclosing class,

including its private members
2) the enclosing class does not have access to the members of the
nested class
Types of Nested Classes
There are two types of nested classes:
1) static – cannot access the members of its enclosing class directly,

but through an object; defined with the static keyword
2) non-static – has direct access to all members of the enclosing class
in the same way as other non-static member of this class so
A static nested class is seldom used.
A non-static nested class is also called an inner class.

Example: Inner Classes 1
Outer has a variable out_x, an inner class Inner and a method test
which creates an object of the Inner class and calls its display method:
class Outer {
int outer_x = 100;
void test() {
Inner inner = new Inner();
inner.display();
}
class Inner {
void display() {
System.out.println("outer_x = " + outer_x);
}
}
}
Example: Inner Classes 2
A demonstration class to create an object of the Outer class and invoke the
test method on this object:
class InnerClassDemo {
Outer outer = new Outer();
outer.test();
}
}
The Inner class is only known within the Outer class. Any reference to
Inner outside Outer will create a compile-time error.
Inner Members Visibility 1
Inner class has access to all member of the outer class.
The reverse is not true: members of the inner class are known only within
the scope of the inner class and may not be used by the outer class.
This is the Outer class with a variable, two methods and Inner class.
The first method refers to the Inner class correctly through an object:
class Outer {
int outer_x = 100;
void test() {
inner.display();
}
Inner class declares variable y and refers to the Outer class variable:
class Inner {
int y = 10;
void display() {
System.out.println("outer_x = " + outer_x);
}
}
showy method refers incorrectly to the Inner class’s y variable:
void showy() {
System.out.println(y);
}
}
As a result, this program will not compile:
outer.test();
}
}
Inner Class Declaration
So far, all inner classes were defined within the outer class scope.
In fact, an inner class may be defined within any block scope.
The following is an example of an inner class define within a for loop.

Example: Inner Class Declaration 1
class Outer {
int outer_x = 100;
void test() {
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
class Inner {
void display() {
System.out.println("outer_x= " + outer_x);
}
}
inner.display();
}
}
}
Example: Inner Class Declaration 2
A demonstration creates an Outer object and invokes a test method on it:
outer.test();
}
}
Exercise: Classes 1
1) What's the difference between an object and a class?
2) Explain why constructors don’t have return types.
3) Can this keyword be used within the context of a static method?. Why?.
4) What’s Overloading?
5) Explain the mechanism of Argument passing in Java. Is it by value or by
reference?
6) Explain the mechanism that Java uses to remove objects from memory
when they are no longer needed.
7) An object has a handle to some non-Java resources such as file or
window character font. How would you ensure that these resources are
freed before the object is destroyed?
Exercise: Classes 2
1) Create a class with a default constructor (no arguments) that prints a
message. Create an object of this class.
2) Add an overloaded constructor to the class in 1 which takes a String
argument and prints it along with your message.
3) Make a two dimensional array of objects of the class you created in 2.
4) Create a class Counter with an adequate data member. Write four
methods, one to get the value of the counter, one to increment the
counter, one to decrement the counter, and one to reset the counter to
zero. Make sure that the value of the counter never gets less than zero.
5) Create an object of your class Counter and assign it to two different
variables. Change the state of the object, calling your method on one
variable. See what happens if you call the get-value-method on the other
variable.
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Inheritance
One of the pillars of object-orientation.
A new class is derived from an existing class:
1) existing class is called super-class

2) derived class is called sub-class
A sub-class is a specialized version of its super-class:
1) has all non-private members of its super-class

2) may provide its own implementation of super-class methods
Objects of a sub-class are a special kind of objects of a super-class.

Inheritance Syntax
Syntax:
class sub-class extends super-class {

…
}
Each class has at most one super-class; no multi-inheritance in Java.
No class is a sub-class of itself.

Example: Super-Class
class A {
int i;
void showi() {
System.out.println("i: " + i);
}
}
Example: Sub-Class
class B extends A {
int j;
void showj() {
System.out.println(“j: " + j);
}
void sum() {
System.out.println("i+j: " + (i+j));
}
}
Example: Testing Class
class SimpleInheritance {
A a = new A();
B b = new B();
a.i = 10;
System.out.println("Contents of a: ");
a.showi();
b.i = 7; b.j = 8;
System.out.println("Contents of b: ");
subOb.showi(); subOb.showj();
System.out.println("Sum of I and j in b:");
b.sum();
}
}
Inheritance and Private Members 1
A class may declare some of its members private.
A sub-class has no access to the private members of its super-class:
class A {
int i;
private int j;
void setij(int x, int y) {
i = x; j = y;
}
}
Inheritance and Private Members 2
Class B has no access to the A’s private variable j.
This program will not compile:
class B extends A {
int total;
void sum() {
total = i + j;
}
}
Example: Box Class
The basic Box class with width, height and depth:
class Box {
}
Box(Box b) {
width = b.width;
height = b.height; depth = b.depth;
}
double volume() {
}
}
Example: BoxWeight Sub-Class
BoxWeight class extends Box with the new weight variable:
class BoxWeight extends Box {

double weight;
BoxWeight(double w, double h, double d, double m) {
width = w; height = h; depth = d; weight = m;
}
BoxWeight(Box b, double w) {
Box(b); weight = w;
}
}
Box is a super-class, BoxWeight is a sub-class.

Example: BoxWeight Demo
class DemoBoxWeight {
BoxWeight mybox1 = new BoxWeight(10, 20, 15, 34.3);
BoxWeight mybox2 = new BoxWeight(mybox1);
double vol;
System.out.print("Weight of mybox1 is “);
System.out.println(mybox1.weight);
}
}
Another Sub-Class
Once a super-class exists that defines the attributes common to a set of
objects, it can be used to create any number of more specific sub-classes.
The following sub-class of Box adds the color attribute instead of weight:
class ColorBox extends Box {

int color;
ColorBox(double w, double h, double d, int c) {

color = c;
}
}
Referencing Sub-Class Objects
A variable of a super-class type may refer to any of its sub-class objects:
class SuperClass { … }
class SubClass extends SuperClass { … }
SuperClass o1;
SubClass o2 = new SubClass();
o1 = o2;
However, the inverse is illegal:
o2 = o1
Example: Sub-Class Objects 1
class RefDemo {
BoxWeight weightbox = new BoxWeight(3, 5, 7, 8.37);
Box plainbox = new Box(5, 5, 5);
double vol;
vol = weightbox.volume();
System.out.print("Volume of weightbox is “);
System.out.println(vol);
System.out.print("Weight of weightbox is “);
System.out.println(weightbox.weight);
plainbox = weightbox;
vol = plainbox.volume();
System.out.println("Volume of plainbox is " + vol);
}
}
Super-Class Variable Access
plainbox variable now refers to the WeightBox object.
Can we then access this object’s weight variable through plainbox?
No. The type of a variable, not the object this variable refers to, determines
which members we can access!
This is illegal:
System.out.print("Weight of plainbox is “);

System.out.println(plainbox.weight);
Super as a Constructor
Calling a constructor of a super-class from the constructor of a sub-class:
super(parameter-list);
Must occur as the very first instructor in the sub-class constructor:
class SuperClass { … }
class SubClass extends SuperClass {

SubClass(…) {
super(…);
…
}
…
}
Example: Super Constructor 1
BoxWeight need not initialize the variable for the Box super-class, only the
added weight variable:

double weight;

super(w, h, d); weight = m;
}
super(b); weight = w;
}
}
Example: Super Constructor 2
class DemoSuper {
BoxWeight mybox2 = new BoxWeight(mybox1, 10.5);
double vol;
}
}
Referencing Sub-Class Objects
Sending a sub-class object:

BoxWeight mybox2 = new BoxWeight(mybox1, 10.5);
to the constructor expecting a super-class object:
super(b); weight = w;
}
Uses of Super
Two uses of super:
1) to invoke the super-class constructor
super();
2) to access super-class members
super.variable;
super.method(…);
(1) was discussed, consider (2).

Super and Hiding
Why is super needed to access super-class members?
When a sub-class declares the variables or methods with the same names
and types as its super-class:
class A {
int i = 1;
}
class B extends A {
int i = 2;
System.out.println(“i is “ + i);
}
The re-declared variables/methods hide those of the super-class.

Example: Super and Hiding 1
class A {
int i;
}
class B extends A {
int i;
B(int a, int b) {
super.i = a; i = b;
}
void show() {
System.out.println("i in superclass: " + super.i);
System.out.println("i in subclass: " + i);
}
}
Example: Super and Hiding 2
Although the i variable in B hides the i variable in A, super allows access
to the hidden variable of the super-class:
class UseSuper {
B subOb = new B(1, 2);
subOb.show();
}
}
Multi-Level Class Hierarchy 1
The basic Box class:
class Box {
private double width, height, depth;
}
Box(Box ob) {
width = ob.width;
height = ob.height; depth = ob.depth;
}
double volume() {
}
}
Adding the weight variable to the Box class:

double weight;
BoxWeight(BoxWeight ob) {
super(ob); weight = ob.weight;
}

super(w, h, d); weight = m;
}
}
Adding the cost variable to the BoxWeight class:
class Ship extends BoxWeight {

double cost;
Ship(Ship ob) {
super(ob); cost = ob.cost;
}
Ship(double w, double h,
double d, double m, double c) {
super(w, h, d, m); cost = c;
}
}
class DemoShip {
Ship ship1 = new Ship(10, 20, 15, 10, 3.41);
Ship ship2 = new Ship(2, 3, 4, 0.76, 1.28);
double vol;
vol = ship1.volume();
System.out.println("Volume of ship1 is " + vol);
System.out.print("Weight of ship1 is”);
System.out.println(ship1.weight);
System.out.print("Shipping cost: $");
System.out.println(ship1.cost);
vol = ship2.volume();
System.out.println("Volume of ship2 is " + vol);
System.out.print("Weight of ship2 is “);
System.out.println(ship2.weight);
System.out.print("Shipping cost: $“);
System.out.println(ship2.cost);
}
}
Constructor Call-Order
Constructor call-order:
1) first call super-class constructors

2) then call sub-class constructors
In the sub-class constructor, if super(…) is not used explicitly, Java calls

the default, parameter-less super-class constructor.
Example: Constructor Call-Order 1
A is the super-class:
class A {
A() {
System.out.println("Inside A's constructor.");
}
}
B and C are sub-classes of A:
class B extends A {
B() {
System.out.println("Inside B's constructor.");
}
}
Example: Constructor Call-Order 2
class C extends B {
C() {
System.out.println("Inside C's constructor.");
}
}
CallingCons creates a single object of the class C:
class CallingCons {
C c = new C();
}
}
Exercise: Inheritance 1
1) Define a Class Building for building objects. Each building has a door
as one of its components.
a) In the class Door, model the fact that a door has a color and three
states, "open" , "closed", "locked“ and “unlocked". To avoid
illegal state changes, make the state private, write a method
(getState) that inspects the state and four methods (open, close,
lock and unlock) that change the state. Initialize the state to "closed"
in the constructor. Look for an alternative place for this initialization.
b) Write a method enter that visualizes the process of entering the
building (unlock door, open door, enter, ...) by printing adequate
messages, e.g. to show the state of the door.
c) Write a corresponding method quit that visualizes the process of
leaving the house. Don't forget to close and lock the door.
d) Test your class by defining an object of type Building and
visualizing the state changes when entering and leaving the building.
Exercise: Inheritance 2
3) Extend question 1 by introducing a subclass HighBuilding that
contains an elevator and the height of the building in addition to the
components of Building. Override the method enter to reflect the
use of the elevator. Define a constructor that takes the height of the
building as a parameter.
4) Define a subclass Skyscraper of HighBuilding, where the number
of floors is stored with each skyscraper.
What happens, if you don't define a constructor for class Skyscraper
(Try it)?
Write a constructor that takes the number of floors and the height as a
parameter. Test the class by creating a skyscraper with 40 floors and
using the inherited method enter.
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Inheritance and Reuse
Reuse of code: every time a new sub-class is defined, programmers are
reusing the code in a super-class.
All non-private members of a super-class are inherited by its sub-class:
1) an attribute in a super-class is inherited as-such in a sub-class
2) a method in a super-class is inherited in a sub-class:

a) as-such, or
b) is substituted with the method which has the same name and
parameters (overriding) but a different implementation
Polymorphism: Definition
Polymorphism is one of three pillars of object-orientation.
Polymorphism: many different (poly) forms of objects that share a common

interface respond differently when a method of that interface is invoked:
1) a super-class defines the common interface

2) sub-classes have to follow this interface (inheritance), but are also
permitted to provide their own implementations (overriding)
A sub-class provides a specialized behaviors relying on the common

elements defined by its super-class.
Polymorphism: Behavior
Suppose we have a hierarchy of classes:
1) The top class in the hierarchy represents a common interface to all

classes below. This class is the base class.
2) All classes below the base represent a number of forms of objects,
all referred to by a variable of the base class type.
What happens when a method is invoked using the base class reference?
The object responds in accordance with its true type.
What if the user pointed to a different form of object using the same
reference? The user would observe different behavior.
This is polymorphism.
Method Overriding
When a method of a sub-class has the same name and type as a method of
the super-class, we say that this method is overridden.
When an overridden method is called from within the sub-class:
1) it will always refer to the sub-class method

2) super-class method is hidden
Example: Hiding with Overriding 1
class A {
int i, j;
A(int a, int b) {
i = a; j = b;
}
void show() {
System.out.println("i and j: " + i + " " + j);
}
}
class B extends A {
int k;
B(int a, int b, int c) {

super(a, b);
k = c;
}
void show() {
System.out.println("k: " + k);
}
}
When show() is invoked on an object of type B, the version of show()
defined in B is used:
class Override {
B subOb = new B(1, 2, 3);
subOb.show();
}
}
The version of show() in A is hidden through overriding.

Super and Method Overriding
The hidden super-class method may be invoked using super:
class B extends A {
int k;
super(a, b);
k = c;
}
void show() {
super.show();
System.out.println("k: " + k);
}
}
The super-class version of show() is called within the sub-class’s version.
Overriding versus Overloading 1
Method overriding occurs only when the names and types of the two
methods (super-class and sub-class methods) are identical.
If not identical, the two methods are simply overloaded:
class A {
int i, j;
A(int a, int b) {
i = a; j = b;
}
void show() {
System.out.println("i and j: " + i + " " + j);
}
}
The show() method in B takes a String parameter, while the show()
method in A takes no parameters:
class B extends A {
int k;

super(a, b); k = c;
}
void show(String msg) {

System.out.println(msg + k);
}
}
The two invocations of show() are resolved through the number of
arguments (zero versus one):
class Override {
B subOb = new B(1, 2, 3);
subOb.show("This is k: ");
subOb.show();
}
}
Dynamic Method Invocation
Overriding is a lot more than the namespace convention.
Overriding is the basis for dynamic method dispatch – a call to an overridden

method is resolved at run-time, rather than compile-time.
Method overriding allows for dynamic method invocation:
1) an overridden method is called through the super-class variable

2) Java determines which version of that method to execute based on
the type of the referred object at the time the call occurs
3) when different types of objects are referred, different versions of the
overridden method will be called.
Example: Dynamic Invocation 1
A super-class A:
class A {
void callme() {
System.out.println("Inside A's callme method");
}
}
Two sub-classes B and C:
class B extends A {
void callme() {
System.out.println("Inside B's callme method");
}
}
class C extends A {
void callme() {
System.out.println("Inside C's callme method");
}
}
B and C override the A’s callme() method.

Overridden method is invoked through the variable of the super-class type.
Each time, the version of the callme() method executed depends on the
type of the object being referred to at the time of the call:
class Dispatch {
A a = new A();
B b = new B();
C c = new C();
A r;
r = a; r.callme();
r = b; r.callme();
r = c; r.callme();
}
}
Polymorphism Again
One interface, many behaviors:
1) super-class defines common methods for sub-classes

2) sub-class provides specific implementations for some of the
methods of the super-class
A combination of inheritance and overriding – sub-classes retain flexibility to

define their own methods, yet they still have to follow a consistent interface.
Example: Polymorphism 1
A class that stores the dimensions of various 2-dimensional objects:
class Figure {
double dim1;
double dim2;
Figure(double a, double b) {
dim1 = a; dim2 = b;
}
double area() {
System.out.println("Area is undefined.");
return 0;
}
}
Rectangle is a sub-class of Figure:
class Rectangle extends Figure {
Rectangle(double a, double b) {
super(a, b);
}
double area() {
System.out.println("Inside Area for Rectangle.");
return dim1 * dim2;
}
}
Triangle is a sub-class of Figure:
class Triangle extends Figure {
Triangle(double a, double b) {
super(a, b);
}
double area() {
System.out.println("Inside Area for Triangle.");
return dim1 * dim2 / 2;
}
}
Invoked through the Figure variable and overridden in their respective sub-
classes, the area() method returns the area of the invoking object:
class FindAreas {
Figure f = new Figure(10, 10);
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(9, 5);
Triangle t = new Triangle(10, 8);
Figure figref;
figref = r; System.out.println(figref.area());
figref = t; System.out.println(figref.area());
figref = f; System.out.println(figref.area());
}
}
Abstract Method
Inheritance allows a sub-class to override the methods of its super-class.
In fact, a super-class may altogether leave the implementation details of a

method and declare such a method abstract:
abstract type name(parameter-list);
Two kinds of methods:
1) concrete – may be overridden by sub-classes

2) abstract – must be overridden by sub-classes
It is illegal to define abstract constructors or static methods.

Example: Abstract Method
The area method cannot compute the area of an arbitrary figure:
double area() {
System.out.println("Area is undefined.");
return 0;
}
Instead, area should be defined abstract in Figure:
abstract double area() ;

Abstract Class
A class that contains an abstract method must be itself declared abstract:
abstract class abstractClassName {

abstract type methodName(parameter-list) {
…
}
…
}
An abstract class has no instances - it is illegal to use the new operator:
abstractClassName a = new abstractClassName();
It is legal to define variables of the abstract class type.

Abstract Sub-Class
A sub-class of an abstract class:
1) implements all abstract methods of its super-class, or

2) is also declared as an abstract class
abstract class A {
abstract void callMe();
}
abstract class B extends A {

int checkMe;
}
Abstract and Concrete Classes 1
Abstract super-class, concrete sub-class:
abstract class A {
abstract void callme();
void callmetoo() {
System.out.println("This is a concrete method.");
}
}
class B extends A {
void callme() {
System.out.println("B's implementation.");
}
}
Abstract and Concrete Classes 2
Calling concrete and overridden abstract methods:
class AbstractDemo {
B b = new B();
b.callme();
b.callmetoo();
}
}
Example: Abstract Class 1
Figure is an abstract class; it contains an abstract area method:
abstract class Figure {

double dim1;
double dim2;
Figure(double a, double b) {
dim1 = a; dim2 = b;
}
abstract double area();

}
Rectangle is concrete – it provides a concrete implementation for area:
class Rectangle extends Figure {

Rectangle(double a, double b) {
super(a, b);
}
double area() {
System.out.println("Inside Area for Rectangle.");
return dim1 * dim2;
}
}
Triangle is concrete – it provides a concrete implementation for area:
class Triangle extends Figure {

Triangle(double a, double b) {
super(a, b);
}
double area() {
System.out.println("Inside Area for Triangle.");
return dim1 * dim2 / 2;
}
}
Invoked through the Figure variable and overridden in their respective sub-
classes, the area() method returns the area of the invoking object:
class AbstractAreas {
Triangle t = new Triangle(10, 8);
Figure figref;
figref = t; System.out.println(figref.area());
}
}
Abstract Class References
It is illegal to create objects of the abstract class:
Figure f = new Figure(10, 10);
It is legal to create a variable with the abstract class type:
Figure figref;
Later, figref may be used to assign references to any object of a concrete

sub-class of Figure (e.g. Rectangle) and to invoke methods of this class:

Uses of final
The final keyword has three uses:
1) declare a variable which value cannot change after initialization

2) declare a method which cannot be overridden in sub-classes
3) declare a class which cannot have any sub-classes
(1) has been discussed before.
Now is time for (2) and (3).

Preventing Overriding with final
A method declared final cannot be overridden in any sub-class:
class A {
final void meth() {
System.out.println("This is a final method.");
}
}
This class declaration is illegal:
class B extends A {
void meth() {
System.out.println("Illegal!");
}
}
final and Early Binding
Two types of method invocation:
1) early binding – method call is decided at compile-time

2) late binding – method call is decided at run-time
By default, method calls are resolved at run-time.
As a final method cannot be overridden, their invocations are resolved at

compile-time. This is one way to improve performance of a method call.
Preventing Inheritance with final
A class declared final cannot be inherited – has no sub-classes.
final class A { … }
This class declaration is considered illegal:
class B extends A { … }
Declaring a class final implicitly declares all its methods final.
It is illegal to declare a class as both abstract and final.

Object Class
Object class is a super-class of all Java classes:
1) Object is the root of the Java inheritance hierarchy.

2) A variable of the Object type may refer to objects of any class.
3) As arrays are implemented as objects, it may also refer to any array.
Object Class Methods 1
Methods declared in the Object class:
1) Object clone() - creates an object which is an ideal copy of the

invoking object.
2) boolean equals(Object object) - determines if the invoking
object and the argument object are the same.
3) void finalize() – called before an unused object is recycled
4) Class getClass() – obtains the class description of an object at
run-time
5) int hashCode() – returns the hash code for the invoking object
Object Class Methods 2
6) void notify() – resumes execution of a thread waiting on the
invoking object
7) void notifyAll() – resumes execution of all threads waiting on
the invoking object
8) String toString() – returns the string that describes the
invoking object
9) three methods to wait on another thread of execution:
a) void wait()
b) void wait(long milliseconds)
c) void wait(long milliseconds, int nanoseconds)
Overriding Object Class Methods
All methods except getClass, notify, notifyAll and wait can be
overridden.
Two methods are frequently overridden:
1) equals()
2) toString()
This way, classes can tailor the equality and the textual description of
objects to their own specific structure and needs.
Exercise: Polymorphism
1) Define a relationship among the following Building, HighBuilding
and Skyscraper classes.
2) Define a class Visits that stores an array of 10 buildings (representing

a street).
3) Define a method that enters all the buildings in the street using the
method enter, one after another.
4) Fill the array with mixed objects from the classes Building,
HighBuilding and Skyscraper.
Make sure, that the output of your program visualizes the fact that
different method implementations are used depending on the type of the
actual object.
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Name Space Management
Classes written so far all belong to a single name space: a unique name has
to be chosen for each class to avoid name collision.
Some way to manage the name space is needed to:
1) ensure that the names are unique

2) provide a continuous supply of convenient, descriptive names
3) ensure that the names chosen by one programmer will not collide
with those chosen by another programmers
Java provides a mechanism for partitioning the class name space into more
manageable chunks. This mechanism is a package.
Package
A package is both a naming and a visibility control mechanism:
1) divides the name space into disjoint subsets
It is possible to define classes within a package that are not

accessible by code outside the package.
2) controls the visibility of classes and their members
It is possible to define class members that are only exposed to other

members of the same package.
Same-package classes may have an intimate knowledge of each other, but

not expose that knowledge to other packages.
Package Definition
A package statement inserted as the first line of the source file:
package myPackage;
class MyClass1 { … }
means that all classes in this file belong to the myPackage package. The
package statement creates a name space where such classes are stored.
When the package statement is omitted, class names are put into the default
package which has no name.
Multiple Source Files
Other files may include the same package instruction:
package myPackage;
package myPackage;
class MyClass3{ … }
A package may be distributed through several source files.

Packages and Directories
Java uses file system directories to store packages.
Consider the Java source file:
package myPackage;
The bytecode files MyClass1.class and MyClass2.class must be

stored in a directory myPackage.
Case is significant! Directory names must match package names exactly.

Package Hierarchy
To create a package hierarchy, separate each package name with a dot:
package myPackage1.myPackage2.myPackage3;
A package hierarchy must be stored accordingly in the file system:
1) Unix myPackage1/myPackage2/myPackage3
2) Windows myPackage1\myPackage2\myPackage3
3) Macintosh myPackage1:myPackage2:myPackage3
You cannot rename a package without renaming its directory!

Finding Packages
As packages are stored in directories, how does the Java run-time system
know where to look for packages?
Two ways:
1) The current directory is the default start point - if packages are

stored in the current directory or sub-directories, they will be found.
2) Specify a directory path or paths by setting the CLASSPATH
environment variable.
CLASSPATH Variable
CLASSPATH - environment variable that points to the root directory of the
system’s package hierarchy.
Several root directories may be specified in CLASSPATH, e.g. the current

directory and the C:\myJava directory:
.;C:\myJava
Java will search for the required packages by looking up subsequent

directories described in the CLASSPATH variable.
Finding Packages
Consider this package statement:
package myPackage;
In order for a program to find myPackage, one of the following must be true:
1) program is executed from the directory immediately above

myPackage (the parent of myPackage directory)
2) CLASSPATH must be set to include the path to myPackage
Example: Package 1
package MyPack;
class Balance {
String name;
double bal;
Balance(String n, double b) {
name = n; bal = b;
}
void show() {
if (bal<0) System.out.print("-->> ");
System.out.println(name + ": $" + bal);
}
}
Example: Package 2
class AccountBalance {
Balance current[] = new Balance[3];
current[0] = new Balance("K. J. Fielding", 123.23);

current[1] = new Balance("Will Tell", 157.02);
current[2] = new Balance("Tom Jackson", -12.33);
for (int i=0; i<3; i++) current[i].show();

}
}
Example: Package 3
Save, compile and execute:
1) call the file AccountBalance.java

2) save the file in the directory MyPack
3) compile; AccountBalance.class should be also in MyPack
4) set access to MyPack in CLASSPATH variable, or make the parent of
MyPack your current directory
5) run:
java MyPack.AccountBalance
Make sure to use the package-qualified class name.

Importing of Packages
Since classes within packages must be fully-qualified with their package
names, it would be tedious to always type long dot-separated names.
The import statement allows to use classes or whole packages directly.
Importing of a concrete class:
import myPackage1.myPackage2.myClass;
Importing of all classes within a package:
import myPackage1.myPackage2.*;
Access Control
Classes and packages are both means of encapsulating and containing the
name space and scope of classes, variables and methods:
1) packages act as a container for classes and other packages

2) classes act as a container for data and code
Access control is set separately for classes and class members.

Access Control: Classes
Two levels of access:
1) A class available in the whole program:
public class MyClass { … }
2) A class available within the same package only:
class MyClass { … }
Access Control: Members
Four levels of access:
1) a member is available in the whole program:
public int variable;

public int method(…) { … }
2) a member is only available within the same class:
private int variable;

private int method(…) { … }
Access Control: Members
3) a member is available within the same package (default access):
int variable;
int method(…) { … }
4) a member is available within the same package as the current class,

or within its sub-classes:
protected int variable;

protected int method(…) { … }
The sub-class may be located inside or outside the current package.

Access Control Summary
Complicated?
Any member declared public can be accessed from anywhere.
Any member declared private cannot be seen outside its class.
When a member does not have any access specification (default access), it
is visible to all classes within the same package.
To make a member visible outside the current package, but only to sub-
classes of the current class, declare this member protected.
Table: Access Control
private default protected public
same class yes yes yes yes
same package subclass no yes yes yes
same package non-sub-class no yes yes yes
different package sub-class no no yes yes
different package non-sub-class no no no yes

Example: Access 1
Access example with two packages p1 and p2 and five classes.
A public Protection class is in the package p1.
It has four variables with four possible access rights:
package p1;
public class Protection {

int n = 1;
private int n_pri = 2;
protected int n_pro = 3;
public int n_pub = 4;
Example: Access 2
public Protection() {
System.out.println("base constructor");
System.out.println("n = " + n);
System.out.println("n_pri = " + n_pri);
System.out.println("n_pro = " + n_pro);
System.out.println("n_pub = " + n_pub);
}
}
The rest of the example tests the access to those variables.

Example: Access 3
Derived class is in the same p1 package and is the sub-class of
Protection.
It has access to all variables of Protection except the private n_pri:
package p1;
class Derived extends Protection {

Derived() {
System.out.println("derived constructor");
System.out.println("n = " + n);
}
}
Example: Access 4
SamePackage is in the p1 package but is not a sub-class of Protection.
It has access to all variables of Protection except the private n_pri:
package p1;
class SamePackage {
SamePackage() {
Protection p = new Protection();
System.out.println("same package constructor");
System.out.println("n = " + p.n);
System.out.println("n_pro = " + p.n_pro);
System.out.println("n_pub = " + p.n_pub);
}
}
Example: Access 5
Protection2 is a sub-class of p1.Protection, but is located in a
different package – package p2.
Protection2 has access to the public and protected variables of

Protection. It has no access to its private and default-access variables:
package p2;
class Protection2 extends p1.Protection {

Protection2() {
System.out.println("derived other package");
}
}
Example: Access 6
OtherPackage is in the p2 package and is not a sub-class of
p1.Protection.
OtherPackage has access to the public variable of Protection only. It

has no access to its private, protected or default-access variables:
class OtherPackage {
OtherPackage() {
p1.Protection p = new p1.Protection();
System.out.println("other package constructor");
System.out.println("n_pub = " + p.n_pub);
}
}
Example: Access 7
A demonstration to use classes of the p1 package:
package p1;
public class Demo {

Protection ob1 = new Protection();
Derived ob2 = new Derived();
SamePackage ob3 = new SamePackage();
}
}
Example: Access 8
A demonstration to use classes of the p2 package:
package p2;
public class Demo {

Protection2 ob1 = new Protection2();
OtherPackage ob2 = new OtherPackage();
}
}
Import Statement
The import statement occurs immediately after the package statement and
before the class statement:
package myPackage;
import otherPackage1;otherPackage2.otherClass;
class myClass { … }
The Java system accepts this import statement by default:
import java.lang.*;
This package includes the basic language functions. Without such functions,
Java is of no much use.
Name Conflict 1
Suppose a same-named class occurs in two different imported packages:
import otherPackage1.*;
class myClass { … otherClass … }
package otherPackage1;
class otherClass { … }
package otherPackage2;
class otherClass { … }
Name Conflict 2
Compiler will remain silent, unless we try to use otherClass.
Then it will display an error message.
In this situation we should use the full name:
class myClass {
…
otherPackage1.otherClass
…
otherPackage2.otherClass
…
}
Short versus Full References
Short reference:
import java.util.*;
class MyClass extends Date { … }
Full reference:
class MyClass extends java.util.Date { … }
Only the public components in imported package are accessible for non-
sub-classes in the importing code!
Example: Packages 1
A package MyPack with one public class Balance. The class has two
same-package variables: public constructor and a public show method.
package MyPack;
public class Balance {
String name;
double bal;
public Balance(String n, double b) {
name = n; bal = b;
}
public void show() {
if (bal<0) System.out.print("-->> ");
System.out.println(name + ": $" + bal);
}
}
Example: Packages 2
The importing code has access to the public class Balance of the
MyPack package and its two public members:
import MyPack.*;
class TestBalance {
Balance test = new Balance("J. J. Jaspers", 99.88);
test.show();
}
}
Java Source File
Finally, a Java source file consists of:
1) a single package instruction (optional)

2) several import statements (optional)
3) a single public class declaration (required)
4) several classes private to the package (optional)
At the minimum, a file contains a single public class declaration.

Exercise: Access
1) Create a package emacao. Don't forget to insert your package into a
directory of the same name. Insert a class AccessTest into this
packge. Define public, default and private data members and
methods in your class AccessTest.
2) Define a second class Accessor1 in your package that accesses the
different kinds of data members of methods (private, public,
default).
See what compiler messages you get.
3) Define class Accessor2 outside the package. Again try to access all
methods and data members of the class AccessTest.
See what compiler messages you get.
4) Where are the differences between Accessor1 and Accessor2 ?

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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Interface
Using interface, we specify what a class must do, but not how it does this.
An interface is syntactically similar to a class, but it lacks instance variables

and its methods are declared without any body.
An interface is defined with an interface keyword.

Interface Format
General format:
access interface name {

type method-name1(parameter-list);
type method-name2(parameter-list);
…
type var-name1 = value1;
type var-nameM = valueM;
…
}
Interface Comments
Two types of access:
1) public – interface may be used anywhere in a program

2) default – interface may be used in the current package only
Interface methods have no bodies – they end with the semicolon after the
parameter list. They are essentially abstract methods.
An interface may include variables, but they must be final, static and
initialized with a constant value.
In a public interface, all members are implicitly public.

Interface Implementation
A class implements an interface if it provides a complete set of methods
defined by this interface.
1) any number of classes may implement an interface

2) one class may implement any number of interfaces
Each class is free to determine the details of its implementation.
Implementation relation is written with the implements keyword.

Implementation Format
General format of a class that includes the implements clause:
access class name

extends super-class
implements interface1, interface2, …, interfaceN {
…
}
Access is public or default.

Implementation Comments
If a class implements several interfaces, they are separated with a comma.
If a class implements two interfaces that declare the same method, the
same method will be used by the clients of either interface.
The methods that implement an interface must be declared public.
The type signature of the implementing method must match exactly the type
signature specified in the interface definition.
Example: Interface
Declaration of the Callback interface:
interface Callback {
void callback(int param);
}
Client class implements the Callback interface:
class Client implements Callback {

public void callback(int p) {
System.out.println("callback called with " + p);
}
}
More Methods in Implementation
An implementing class may also declare its own methods:

}
void nonIfaceMeth() {
System.out.println("Classes that implement “ +
“interfaces may also define ” +
“other members, too.");
}
}
Interface as a Type
Variable may be declared with interface as its type:
interface MyInterface { … }
…
MyInterface mi;
The variable of an interface type may reference an object of any class that
implements this interface.
class MyClass implements MyInterface { … }
MyInterface mi = new MyClass();

Call Through Interface Variable
Using the interface type variable, we can call any method in the interface:
interface MyInterface {
void myMethod(…) ;
…
}
class MyClass implements MyInterface { … }
…
MyInterface mi = new MyClass();
…
mi.myMethod();
The correct version of the method will be called based on the actual instance
of the interface being referred to.
Example: Call Through Interface 1
Declaration of the Callback interface:
interface Callback {
void callback(int param);
}
Client class implements the Callback interface:

}
}
Example: Call Through Interface 2
TestIface declares the Callback interface variable, initializes it with the
new Client object, and calls the callback method through this variable:
class TestIface {
Callback c = new Client();
c.callback(42);
}
}
Call Through Interface Variable 2
Call through an interface variable is one of the key features of interfaces:
1) the method to be executed is looked up dynamically at run-time

2) the calling code can dispatch through an interface without having to
know anything about the callee
Allows classes to be created later than the code that calls methods on them.
Example: Interface Call 1
Another implementation of the Callback interface:
class AnotherClient implements Callback {

System.out.println("Another version of callback");
System.out.println("p squared is " + (p*p));
}
}
Example: Interface Call 2
Callback variable c is assigned Client and later AnotherClient
objects and the corresponding callback is invoked depending on its value:
class TestIface2 {
Callback c = new Client();
c.callback(42);
AnotherClient ob = new AnotherClient();
c = ob;
c.callback(42);
}
}
Compile-Time Method Binding
Normally, in order for a method to be called from one class to another, both
classes must be present at compile time.
This implies:
1) a static, non-extensible classing environment

2) functionality gets pushed higher and higher in the class hierarchy to
make them available to more sub-classes
Run-Time Method Binding
Interfaces support dynamic method binding.
Interface disconnects the method definition from the inheritance hierarchy:
1) interfaces are in a different hierarchy from classes

2) it is possible for classes that are unrelated in terms of the class
hierarchy to implement the same interface
Interface and Abstract Class
A class that claims to implement an interface but does not implement all its
methods must be declared abstract.
Incomplete class implements the Callback interface but not its

callback method, so the class is declared abstract:
abstract class Incomplete implements Callback {

int a, b;
void show() {
}
}
Example: Stack Interface
Many ways to implement a stack but one interface:
interface IntStack {
void push(int item);
int pop();
}
Lets look at two implementations of this interface:
1) FixedStack – a fixed-length version of the integer stack

2) DynStack – a dynamic-length version of the integer stack
Example: FixedStack 1
A fixed-length stack implements the IntStack interface with two private
variables, a constructor and two public methods:
class FixedStack implements IntStack {

private int stck[];
private int tos;
FixedStack(int size) {
stck = new int[size]; tos = -1;
}
public void push(int item) {
if (tos==stck.length-1)
System.out.println("Stack is full.");
}
public int pop() {

if (tos < 0) {
return 0;
}
}
}
A testing class creates two stacks:
class IFTest {
FixedStack mystack1 = new FixedStack(5);
FixedStack mystack2 = new FixedStack(8);
It pushes and them pops off some values from those stacks:

for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
for (int i=0; i<8; i++)
}
}
Example: DynStack 1
Another implementation of an integer stack.
A dynamic-length stack is first created with an initial length. The stack is

doubled in size every time this initial length is exceeded.
class DynStack implements IntStack {

private int stck[];
private int tos;
DynStack(int size) {
stck = new int[size];
tos = -1;
}
Example: DynStack 2
If stack if full, push creates a new stack with double the size of the old stack:
public void push(int item) {

if (tos==stck.length-1) {
int temp[] = new int[stck.length * 2];
for (int i=0; i<stck.length; i++)
temp[i] = stck[i];
stck = temp;
stck[++tos] = item;
}
}
Example: DynStack 3
If the stack is empty, pop returns the zero value:
public int pop() {

if(tos < 0) {
return 0;
}
}
}
Example: DynStack 4
The testing class creates two dynamic-length stacks:
class IFTest2 {
DynStack mystack1 = new DynStack(5);
DynStack mystack2 = new DynStack(8);
Example: DynStack 5
It then pushes some numbers onto those stacks, dynamically increasing
their size, then pops those numbers off:

for (int i=0; i<12; i++)
for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
}
}
Example: Two Stacks 1
Testing two stack implementations through an interface variable.
First, some numbers are pushed onto both stacks:
class IFTest3 {
IntStack mystack;
DynStack ds = new DynStack(5);
FixedStack fs = new FixedStack(8);
mystack = ds;
for (int i=0; i<12; i++) mystack.push(i);
mystack = fs;
for (int i=0; i<8; i++) mystack.push(i);
Example: Two Stacks 2
Then, those numbers are popped off:
mystack = ds;
System.out.println("Values in dynamic stack:");
for (int i=0; i<12; i++)
System.out.println(mystack.pop());
mystack = fs;
System.out.println("Values in fixed stack:");
for (int i=0; i<8; i++)
System.out.println(mystack.pop());
}
}
Which stack implementation is the value of the mystack variable, therefore

which version of push and pop are used, is determined at run-time.
Interface Variables
Variables declared in an interface must be constants.
A technique to import shared constants into multiple classes:
1) declare an interface with variables initialized to the desired values

2) include that interface in a class through implementation
As no methods are included in the interface, the class does not implement
anything except importing the variables as constants.
Example: Interface Variables 1
An interface with constant values:
import java.util.Random;
interface SharedConstants {
int NO = 0;
int YES = 1;
int MAYBE = 2;
int LATER = 3;
int SOON = 4;
int NEVER = 5;
}
Question implements SharedConstants, including all its constants.
Which constant is returned depends on the generated random number:
class Question implements SharedConstants {

Random rand = new Random();
int ask() {
int prob = (int) (100 * rand.nextDouble());
if (prob < 30) return NO;
else if (prob < 60) return YES;
else if (prob < 75) return LATER;
else if (prob < 98) return SOON;
else return NEVER;
}
}
AskMe includes all shared constants in the same way, using them to display
the result, depending on the value received:
class AskMe implements SharedConstants {

static void answer(int result) {
switch(result) {
case NO: System.out.println("No"); break;
case YES: System.out.println("Yes"); break;
case MAYBE: System.out.println("Maybe"); break;
case LATER: System.out.println("Later"); break;
case SOON: System.out.println("Soon"); break;
case NEVER: System.out.println("Never"); break;
}
}
The testing function relies on the fact that both ask and answer methods,
defined in different classes, rely on the same constants:

Question q = new Question();
answer(q.ask());
answer(q.ask());
answer(q.ask());
answer(q.ask());
}
}
Interface Inheritance
One interface may inherit another interface.
The inheritance syntax is the same for classes and interfaces.
interface MyInterface1 {
void myMethod1(…) ;
}
interface MyInterface2 extends MyInterface1 {
void myMethod2(…) ;
}
When a class implements an interface that inherits another interface, it must

provide implementations for all methods defined within the interface
inheritance chain.
Inheritance and Implementation
When a class implements an interface that inherits another interface, it must
provide implementations for all inherited methods:
class MyClass implements MyInterface2 {

void myMethod1(…) { … }
void myMethod1(…) { … }
…
}
Example: Interface Inheritance 1
Consider interfaces A and B.
interface A {
void meth1();
void meth2();
}
B extends A:
interface B extends A {
void meth3();
}
MyClass must implement all of A and B methods:
class MyClass implements B {

public void meth1() {
System.out.println("Implement meth1().");
}
}
}
}
Create a new MyClass object, then invoke all interface methods on it:
class IFExtend {
public static void main(String arg[]) {
MyClass ob = new MyClass();
ob.meth1();
ob.meth2();
ob.meth3();
}
}
Exercise: Interface
1) Define two interfaces:
a) an interface CardUse for card use with methods read to read the
state and reduceBy with a parameter amount to change the state of
the card. The user has to identify himself by a PIN for this operation;
b) an interface CardChange for the administration of the card by
authorized people, that need a method reset to reset the card
state, a method fill to fill the card with an amount of money and a
method changePIN to change the PIN for the card.
2) Define a third interface CardAll that includes all card operation (Use
inheritance).
3) Change the interface CardAll into an abstract class that implements

the balance of the card and a basic solution for the methods fill and
reduceBy leaving the rest of the methods abstract. Choose the correct
access specifier to make the balance accessible to subclasses but not to
the public; Check this;
80 $ ) .
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Exceptions
Exception is an abnormal condition that arises when executing a program.
In the languages that do not support exception handling, errors must be

checked and handled manually, usually through the use of error codes.
In contrast, Java:
1) provides syntactic mechanisms to signal, detect and handle errors

2) ensures a clean separation between the code executed in the
absence of errors and the code to handle various kinds of errors
3) brings run-time error management into object-oriented programming
Exception Handling
An exception is an object that describes an exceptional condition (error) that
has occurred when executing a program.
Exception handling involves the following:

1) when an error occurs, an object (exception) representing this error is
created and thrown in the method that caused it
2) that method may choose to handle the exception itself or pass it on
3) either way, at some point, the exception is caught and processed
Exception Sources
Exceptions can be:
1) generated by the Java run-time system
Fundamental errors that violate the rules of the Java language or the
constraints of the Java execution environment.
2) manually generated by programmer’s code
Such exceptions are typically used to report some error conditions to

the caller of a method.
Exception Constructs
Five constructs are used in exception handling:
1) try – a block surrounding program statements to monitor for

exceptions
2) catch – together with try, catches specific kinds of exceptions and
handles them in some way
3) finally – specifies any code that absolutely must be executed
whether or not an exception occurs
4) throw – used to throw a specific exception from the program
5) throws – specifies which exceptions a given method can throw
Exception-Handling Block
General form:
try { … }
catch(Exception1 ex1) { … }
catch(Exception2 ex2) { … }
…
finally { … }
where:
1) try { … } is the block of code to monitor for exceptions

2) catch(Exception ex) { … } is exception handler for the
exception Exception
3) finally { … } is the block of code to execute before the try
block ends
Exception Hierarchy
All exceptions are sub-classes of the build-in class Throwable.
Throwable contains two immediate sub-classes:
1) Exception – exceptional conditions that programs should catch
The class includes:
a) RuntimeException – defined automatically for user programs

to include: division by zero, invalid array indexing, etc.
b) use-defined exception classes
2) Error – exceptions used by Java to indicate errors with the run-

time environment; user programs are not supposed to catch them
Uncaught Exception
What happens when exceptions are not handled?
class Exc0 {
int d = 0;
int a = 42 / d;
}
}
When the Java run-time system detects the attempt to divide by zero, it
constructs a new exception object and throws this object.
This will cause the execution of Exc0 to stop – once an exception has been
thrown it must be caught by an exception handler and dealt with.
Default Exception Handler
As we have not provided any exception handler, the exception is caught by
the default handler provided by the Java run-time system.
This default handler:

1) displays a string describing the exception,
2) prints the stack trace from the point where the exception occurred
3) terminates the program
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at Exc0.main(Exc0.java:4)
Any exception not caught by the user program is ultimately processed by the
default handler.
Stack Trace Display
The stack trace displayed by the default error handler shows the sequence
of method invocations that led up to the error.
Here the exception is raised in subroutine() which is called by main():
class Exc1 {
static void subroutine() {
int d = 0;
int a = 10 / d;
}
Exc1.subroutine();
}
}
Own Exception Handling
Default exception handling is basically useful for debugging.
Normally, we want to handle exceptions ourselves because:
1) if we detected the error, we can try to fix it

2) we prevent the program from automatically terminating
Exception handling is done through the try and catch block.

Try and Catch 1
Try and catch:
1) try surrounds any code we want to monitor for exceptions

2) catch specifies which exception we want to handle and how.
When an exception is thrown in the try block:
try {
d = 0;
a = 42 / d;
System.out.println("This will not be printed.");
}
Try and Catch 2
control moves immediately to the catch block:
catch (ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("Division by zero.");
}
The exception is handled and the execution resumes.
The scope of catch is restricted to the immediately preceding try statement -

it cannot catch exceptions thrown by another try statements.
Try and Catch 3
Resumption occurs with the next statement after the try/catch block:
try { … }
catch (ArithmeticException e) { … }
System.out.println("After catch statement.");
Not with the next statement after a = 42/d; which caused the exception!
a = 42 / d;
System.out.println("This will not be printed.");
Catch and Continue 1
The purpose of catch should be to resolve the exception and then continue
as if the error had never happened.
Try/catch block inside a loop:
import java.util.Random;
class HandleError {
int a=0, b=0, c=0;
Random r = new Random();
Catch and Continue 2
After exception-handling, the program continues with the next iteration:
for (int i=0; i<32000; i++) {

try {
b = r.nextInt();
c = r.nextInt();
a = 12345 / (b/c);
} catch (ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("Division by zero.");
a = 0; // set a to zero and continue
}
System.out.println("a: " + a);
}
}
}
Exception Display
All exception classes inherit from the Throwable class.
Throwable overrides toString() to describe the exception textually:
try { … }
catch (ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println(“Exception: “ + e);
}
The following text will be displayed:
Exception: java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero

Multiple Catch Clauses
When more than one exception can be raised by a single piece of code,
several catch clauses can be used with one try block:
1) each catch catches a different kind of exception

2) when an exception is thrown, the first one whose type matches that
of the exception is executed
3) after one catch executes, the other are bypassed and the
execution continues after the try/catch block
Example: Multiple Catch 1
Two different exception types are possible in the following code: division by
zero and array index out of bound:
class MultiCatch {
try {
int a = args.length;
int b = 42 / a;
int c[] = { 1 };
c[42] = 99;
}
Example: Multiple Catch 2
Both exceptions can be caught by the following catch clauses:
catch(ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("Divide by 0: " + e);
} catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
System.out.println("Array index oob: " + e);
}
System.out.println("After try/catch blocks.");
}
}
Order of Multiple Catch Clauses
Order is important:
1) catch clauses are inspected top-down

2) a clause using a super-class will catch all sub-class exceptions
Therefore, specific exceptions should appear before more general ones.
In particular, exception sub-classes must appear before super-classes.

Example: Multiple Catch Order 1
A try block with two catch clauses:
class SuperSubCatch {
try {
int a = 0;
int b = 42 / a;
This exception is more general but occurs first:
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Generic Exception catch.");
}
Example: Multiple Catch Order 2
This exception is more specific but occurs last:
catch(ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println("This is never reached.");
}
}
}
The second clause will never get executed. A compile-time error

(unreachable code) will be raised.
Nested try Statements
The try statements can be nested:
1) if an inner try does not catch a particular exception

2) the exception is inspected by the outer try block
3) this continues until:
a) one of the catch statements succeeds or
b) all the nested try statements are exhausted
4) in the latter case, the Java run-time system will handle the exception
Example: Nested try 1
An example with two nested try statements:
class NestTry {
Outer try statement:
try {
Division by zero when no command-line argument is present:
int b = 42 / a;
Inner try statement:
try {
Division by zero when one command-line argument is present:
if (a==1) a = a/(a-a);
Array index out of bound when two command-line arguments are present:
if (a==2) {
int c[] = { 1 };
c[42] = 99;
}
Catch statement for the inner try statement, catches the array index out of
bound exception:
System.out.println(e);
}
Catch statement for the outer try statement, catches both division-by-zero
exceptions for the inner and outer try statements:
} catch(ArithmeticException e) {
}
}
}
Method Calls and Nested try 1
Nesting of try statements with method calls:
1) method call is enclosed within one try statement

2) the method includes another try statement
Still, the try blocks are considered nested within each other.
class MethNestTry {
Method nesttry contains the try statement:
static void nesttry(int a) {

try {
if (a==1) a = a/(a-a);
if (a==2) {
int c[] = { 1 }; c[42] = 99;
}
System.out.println(e);
}
}
Method main contains another try block which includes the call to nesttry:

try {
int b = 42 / a;
nesttry(a);
}
} catch(ArithmeticException e) {
}
}
}
Throwing Exceptions
So far, we were only catching the exceptions thrown by the Java system.
In fact, a user program may throw an exception explicitly:
throw ThrowableInstance;
ThrowableInstance must be an object of type Throwable or its

subclass.
throw Follow-up
Once an exception is thrown by:
throw ThrowableInstance;
1) the flow of control stops immediately

2) the nearest enclosing try statement is inspected if it has a catch
statement that matches the type of exception:
1) if one exists, control is transferred to that statement
2) otherwise, the next enclosing try statement is examined
3) if no enclosing try statement has a corresponding catch clause,
the default exception handler halts the program and prints the stack
Creating Exceptions
Two ways to obtain a Throwable instance:
1) creating one with the new operator
All Java built-in exceptions have at least two constructors: one

without parameters and another with one String parameter:
throw new NullPointerException("demo");
2) using a parameter of the catch clause
try { … } catch(Throwable e) { … e … }
Example: throw 1
class ThrowDemo {
The method demoproc throws a NullPointerException exception

which is immediately caught in the try block and re-thrown:
static void demoproc() {

try {
throw new NullPointerException("demo");
} catch(NullPointerException e) {
System.out.println("Caught inside demoproc.");
throw e;
}
}
Example: throw 2
The main method calls demoproc within the try block which catches and
handles the NullPointerException exception:

try {
demoproc();
System.out.println("Recaught: " + e);
}
}
}
throws Declaration
If a method is capable of causing an exception that it does not handle, it
must specify this behavior by the throws clause in its declaration:
type name(parameter-list) throws exception-list {

…
}
where exception-list is a comma-separated list of all types of

exceptions that a method might throw.
All exceptions must be listed except Error and RuntimeException or

any of their subclasses, otherwise a compile-time error occurs.
Example: throws 1
The throwOne method throws an exception that it does not catch, nor
declares it within the throws clause.
class ThrowsDemo {
static void throwOne() {
System.out.println("Inside throwOne.");
throw new IllegalAccessException("demo");
}
throwOne();
}
}
Therefore this program does not compile.

Example: throws 2
Corrected program: throwOne lists exception, main catches it:
class ThrowsDemo {
static void throwOne() throws IllegalAccessException {
System.out.println("Inside throwOne.");
throw new IllegalAccessException("demo");
}
try {
throwOne();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
System.out.println("Caught " + e);
}
}
}
Motivating finally
When an exception is thrown:
1) the execution of a method is changed

2) the method may even return prematurely.
This may be a problem is many situations.
For instance, if a method opens a file on entry and closes on exit; exception
handling should not bypass the proper closure of the file.
The finally block is used to address this problem.

finally Clause
The try/catch statement requires at least one catch or finally clause,
although both are optional:
try { … }
catch(Exception1 ex1) { … } …
finally { … }
Executed after try/catch whether of not the exception is thrown.
Any time a method is to return to a caller from inside the try/catch block via:
1) uncaught exception or
2) explicit return
the finally clause is executed just before the method returns.

Example: finally 1
Three methods to exit in various ways.
class FinallyDemo {
procA prematurely breaks out of the try by throwing an exception, the

finally clause is executed on the way out:
static void procA() {

try {
System.out.println("inside procA");
throw new RuntimeException("demo");
} finally {
System.out.println("procA's finally");
}
}
Example: finally 2
procB’s try statement is exited via a return statement, the finally
clause is executed before procB returns:
static void procB() {

try {
System.out.println("inside procB");
return;
} finally {
System.out.println("procB's finally");
}
}
Example: finally 3
In procC, the try statement executes normally without error, however the
finally clause is still executed:
static void procC() {

try {
System.out.println("inside procC");
} finally {
System.out.println("procC's finally");
}
}
Example: finally 4
Demonstration of the three methods:

try {
procA();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception caught");
}
procB();
procC();
}
}
Java Built-In Exceptions
The default java.lang package provides several exception classes, all
sub-classing the RuntimeException class.
Two sets of build-in exception classes:
1) unchecked exceptions – the compiler does not check if a method

handles or throws there exceptions
2) checked exceptions – must be included in the method’s throws
clause if the method generates but does not handle them
Unchecked Built-In Exceptions 1
Methods that generate but do not handle those exceptions need not
declare them in the throws clause:
ArithmeticException arithmetic error such as divide-by-

zero
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException array index out of bounds
ArrayStoreException assignment to an array element of

the wrong type
ClassCastException invalid cast
IllegalArgumentException illegal argument used to invoke a

method
IllegalMonitorStateException illegal monitor behavior, e.g.
waiting on an unlocked thread
IllegalStateException environment of application is in
incorrect state
Unchecked Built-In Exceptions 2
IllegalThreadStateException requested operation not compatible
with current thread state
IndexOutOfBoundsException some type of index is out-of-bounds
NegativeArraySizeException array created with a negative size
NullPointerException invalid use of null reference
NumberFormatException invalid conversion of a string to a

numeric format
SecurityException attempt to violate security
StringIndexOutOfBounds attempt to index outside the the bounds

of a string
UnsupportedOperationException an unsupported operation was
encountered
Checked Built-In Exceptions
Methods that generate but do not handle those exceptions must declare
them in the throws clause:
ClassNotFoundException class not found
CloneNotSupportedException attempt to clone an object that does not

implement the Cloneable interface
IllegalAccessException access to a class is denied
InstantiationException attempt to create an object of an abstract

class or interface
InterruptedException one thread has been interrupted by another
thread
NoSuchFieldException a requested field does not exist
NoSuchMethodException a requested method does not exist

Creating Own Exception Classes
Build-in exception classes handle some generic errors.
For application-specific errors define your own exception classes.
How? Define a subclass of Exception:
class MyException extends Exception { … }
MyException need not implement anything – its mere existence in the type
system allows to use its objects as exceptions.
Throwable Class 1
Exception itself is a sub-class of Throwable.
All user exceptions have the methods defined by the Throwable class:
1) Throwable fillInStackTrace() – returns a Throwable object that

contains a completed stack trace; the object can be rethrown.
2) Throwable getCause() – returns the exception that underlies the
current exception. If no underlying exception exists, null is returned.
3) String getLocalizedMessage() – returns a localized description of
the exception.
4) String getMessage() – returns a description of the exception
5) StackTraceElement[] getStackTrace() – returns an array that
contains the stack trace; the method at the top is the last one called
before exception.
Throwable Class 2
More methods defined by the Throwable class:
6) Throwable initCause(Throwable causeExc) – associates

causeExc with the invoking exception as its cause, returns the
exception reference
7) void printStackTrace() – displays the stack trace
8) void printStackTrace(PringStream stream) – sends the stack
trace to the specified stream
9) void setStackTrace(StackTraceElement elements[]) – sets
the stack trace to the elements passed in elements; for specialized
applications only
10) String toString() – returns a String object containing a
description of the exception; called by print() when displaying a
Throwable object.
Example: Own Exceptions 1
A new exception class is defined, with a private detail variable, a one-
parameter constructor and an overridden toString method:
class MyException extends Exception {

private int detail;
MyException(int a) {
detail = a;
}
public String toString() {

return "MyException[" + detail + "]";
}
}
class ExceptionDemo {
The static compute method throws the MyException exception whenever

its a argument is greater than 10:
static void compute(int a) throws MyException {

System.out.println("Called compute(" + a + ")");
if (a > 10) throw new MyException(a);
System.out.println("Normal exit");
}
The main method calls compute with two arguments within a try block
that catches the MyException exception:

try {
compute(1);
compute(20);
} catch (MyException e) {
System.out.println("Caught " + e);
}
}
}
Chained Exceptions 1
The chained exception allows to associate with a given exception another
exception that describes its cause.
Throwable class includes two constructors to handle chained exceptions:
Throwable(Throwable causeExc)
Throwable(String msg, Throwable causeExc)
They both create an exception with causeExc being its underlying reason
and optional msg providing the textual description.
Chained Exceptions 2
Throwable class also includes two methods to handle chained exceptions:
1) Throwable getCause() – returns an exception that is the cause of the

current exception, or null if there is no underlying exception.
2) Throwable initCause(Throwable causeExc) – associates
causeExc with the invoking exception and returns a reference to the
exception:
a) initCause allows to associate a cause with an existing exception

b) the cause exception can be set only once
c) if the cause exception was set by a constructor, it is not possible to
set it again with initCause
Example: Chained Exceptions 1
class ChainExcDemo {
The demoproc method creates a new NullPointerException exception

e, associates ArithmethicException as its cause, then throws e:
static void demoproc() {

NullPointerException e =
new NullPointerException(“top layer”);
e.initCause(new ArithmeticException(“cause”));
throw e;
}
Example: Chained Exceptions 2
The main method calls demoproc within the try block that catches
NullPointerException, then displays the exception and its cause:

try {
demoproc();
System.out.println(“Caught: “ + e);
System.out.println(“Cause: “ + e.getCause());
}
}
}
A cause exception may itself have a cause. In fact, the cause-chain of

exceptions may be arbitrarily long.
Exceptions Usage
New Java programmers should break the habit of returning error codes to
signal abnormal exit from a method.
Java provides a clean and powerful way to handle errors and unusual
boundary conditions through its:
1) try
2) catch
3) finally
4) throw and
5) throws statements.
However, Java’s exception-handling should not be considered a general

mechanism for non-local branching!
Exercise: Exception-Handling
1) Create exception classes called Even and Odd
2) Generate numbers within an endless loop. Print the generated numbers.
3) If the number is even, throw the Even exception with the message “The
number thrown an even number” along with the number.
4) If the number is odd, throw the Odd exception with the message “The
number thrown an odd number” along with the number.
5) Catch the Even exception within the endless loop and print the
message.
6) Catch the Odd exception outside of the loop and print the message.
( .
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Multi-Tasking
Two kinds of multi-tasking:
1) process-based multi-tasking
2) thread-based multi-tasking
Process-based multi-tasking is about allowing several programs to execute

concurrently, e.g. Java compiler and a text editor.
Processes are heavyweight tasks:
1) that require their own address space

2) inter-process communication is expensive and limited
3) context-switching from one process to another is expensive and limited
Thread-Based Multi-Tasking
Thread-based multi-tasking is about a single program executing concurrently
several tasks e.g. a text editor printing and spell-checking text.
Threads are lightweight tasks:
1) they share the same address space

2) they cooperatively share the same process
3) inter-thread communication is inexpensive
4) context-switching from one thread to another is low-cost
Java multi-tasking is thread-based.

Reasons for Multi-Threading
Multi-threading enables to write efficient programs that make the maximum
use of the CPU, keeping the idle time to a minimum.
There is plenty of idle time for interactive, networked applications:
1) the transmission rate of data over a network is much slower than the rate
at which the computer can process it
2) local file system resources can be read and written at a much slower rate
than can be processed by the CPU
3) of course, user input is much slower than the computer
Single-Threading
In a single-threaded environment, the program has to wait for each of these
tasks to finish before it can proceed to the next.
Single-threaded systems use event loop with pooling:
1) a single thread of control runs in an infinite loop

2) the loop pools a single event queue to decide what to do next
3) the pooling mechanism returns an event
4) control is dispatched to the appropriate event handler
5) until this event handler returns, nothing else can happen
Threads: Model
Thread exist in several states:
1) ready to run
2) running
3) a running thread can be suspended
4) a suspended thread can be resumed
5) a thread can be blocked when waiting for a resource
6) a thread can be terminated
Once terminated, a thread cannot be resumed.

Threads: Priorities
Every thread is assigned priority – an integer number to decide when to
switch from one running thread to the next (context-switching).
Rules for context switching:
1) a thread can voluntarily relinquish control (sleeping, blocking on I/O, etc.),

then the highest-priority ready to run thread is given the CPU.
2) a thread can be preempted by a higher-priority thread – a lower-priority
thread is suspended
When two equal-priority threads are competing for CPU time, which one is
chosen depends on the operating system.
Threads: Synchronization
Multi-threading introduces asynchronous behavior to a program. How to
ensure synchronous behavior when we need it?
For instance, how to prevent two threads from simultaneously writing and
reading the same object?
Java implementation of monitors:
1) classes can define so-called synchronized methods

2) each object has its own implicit monitor that is automatically entered
when one of the object’s synchronized methods is called
3) once a thread is inside a synchronized method, no other thread can call
any other synchronized method on the same object
Thread Class
To create a new thread a program will:
1) extend the Thread class, or

2) implement the Runnable interface
Thread class encapsulates a thread of execution.
The whole Java multithreading environment is based on the Thread class.

Thread Methods
getName obtain a thread’s name
getPriority obtain a thread’s priority
isAlive determine if a thread is still running
join wait for a thread to terminate
run entry-point for a thread
sleep suspend a thread for a period of time
start start a thread by calling its run method

The Main Thread
The main thread is a thread that begins as soon as a program starts.
The main thread:
1) is invoked automatically
2) is the first to start and the last to finish
3) is the thread from which other “child” threads will be spawned
It can be obtained through the
public static Thread currentThread()
method of Thread.
Example: Main Thread 1
class CurrentThreadDemo {
The main thread is obtained, displayed, its name changed and re-displayed:
Thread t = Thread.currentThread();
System.out.println("Current thread: " + t);
t.setName("My Thread");
System.out.println("After name change: " + t);
Example: Main Thread 2
A loop performs five iterations pausing for a second between the iterations.
It is performed within the try/catch block – the sleep method may throw
InterruptedException if some other thread wanted to interrupt:
try {
for (int n = 5; n > 0; n--) {
System.out.println(n);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.out.println("Main thread interrupted");
}
}
}
Example: Thread Methods
Thread methods used by the example:
1) static void sleep(long milliseconds)

throws InterruptedException
Causes the thread from which it is executed to suspend execution for the
specified number of milliseconds.
2) final String getName()

Allows to obtain the name of the current thread.
3) final void setName(String threadName)

Sets the name of the current thread.
Creating a Thread
Two methods to create a new thread:
1) by implementing the Runnable interface

2) by extending the Thread class
We look at each method in order.

New Thread: Runnable
To create a new thread by implementing the Runnable interface:
1) create a class that implements the run method (inside this method, we
define the code that constitutes the new thread):
public void run()
2) instantiate a Thread object within that class, a possible constructor is:
Thread(Runnable threadOb, String threadName)
3) call the start method on this object (start calls run):
void start()
Example: New Thread 1
A class NewThread that implements Runnable:
class NewThread implements Runnable {

Thread t;
Creating and starting a new thread. Passing this to the Thread

constructor – the new thread will call this object’s run method:
NewThread() {
t = new Thread(this, "Demo Thread");
System.out.println("Child thread: " + t);
t.start();
}
This is the entry point for the newly created thread – a five-iterations loop
with a half-second pause between the iterations all within try/catch:
public void run() {

try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
System.out.println("Child Thread: " + i);
Thread.sleep(500);
}
System.out.println("Child interrupted.");
}
System.out.println("Exiting child thread.");
}
}
class ThreadDemo {
A new thread is created as an object of NewThread:
new NewThread();
After calling the NewThread start method, control returns here.

Both threads (new and main) continue concurrently.
Here is the loop for the main thread:
try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
System.out.println("Main Thread: " + i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
System.out.println("Main thread interrupted.");
}
System.out.println("Main thread exiting.");
}
}
New Thread: Extend Thread
The second way to create a new thread:
1) create a new class that extends Thread

2) create an instance of that class
Thread provides both run and start methods:
1) the extending class must override run

2) it must also call the start method
The new thread class extends Thread:
class NewThread extends Thread {
Create a new thread by calling the Thread’s constructor and start

method:
NewThread() {
super("Demo Thread");
System.out.println("Child thread: " + this);
start();
}
NewThread overrides the Thread’s run method:
public void run() {

try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
System.out.println("Child Thread: " + i);
Thread.sleep(500);
}
System.out.println("Child interrupted.");
}
System.out.println("Exiting child thread.");
}
}
class ExtendThread {
After a new thread is created:
new NewThread();
the new and main threads continue concurrently…

This is the loop of the main thread:
try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
System.out.println("Main Thread: " + i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
}
}
}
New Thread: Which Approach?
The Thread class defines several methods that can be overriden.
Of these methods, only run must be overriden.
Creating a new thread:
1) implement Runnable if only run is overriden

2) extend Thread if other methods are also overriden
Example: Multiple Threads 1
So far, we were using only two threads - main and new, but in fact a
program may spawn as many threads as it needs.
NewThread class implements the Runnable interface:

String name;
Thread t;
NewThread(String threadname) {
name = threadname;
t = new Thread(this, name);
System.out.println("New thread: " + t);
t.start();
}
Here is the implementation of the run method:
public void run() {

try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
System.out.println(name + ": " + i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
System.out.println(name + "Interrupted");
}
System.out.println(name + " exiting.");
}
}
The demonstration class creates three threads then waits until they all finish:
class MultiThreadDemo {
new NewThread("One");
new NewThread("Two");
new NewThread("Three");
try {
Thread.sleep(10000);
System.out.println("Main thread Interrupted");
}
}
}
Using isAlive and join Methods
How can one thread know when another thread has ended?
Two methods are useful:
1) final boolean isAlive() - returns true if the thread upon which it

is called is still running and false otherwise
2) final void join() throws InterruptedException – waits until
the thread on which it is called terminates
Example: isAlive and join 1
Previous example improved to use isAlive and join methods.
New thread implements the Runnable interface:

String name;
Thread t;
name = threadname;
t.start();
}
Here is the new thread’s run method:
public void run() {

try {
for (int i = 5; i > 0; i--) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
System.out.println(name + " interrupted.");
}
}
}
class DemoJoin {
Creating three new threads:
NewThread ob1 = new NewThread("One");

NewThread ob2 = new NewThread("Two");
NewThread ob3 = new NewThread("Three");
Checking if those threads are still alive:
System.out.println(ob1.t.isAlive());
Waiting until all three threads have finished:
try {
System.out.println("Waiting to finish.");
ob1.t.join();
ob2.t.join();
ob3.t.join();
}
Testing again if the new threads are still alive:

}
}
Thread Priorities
Priority is used by the scheduler to decide when each thread should run.
In theory, higher-priority thread gets more CPU than lower-priority thread

and threads of equal priority should get equal access to the CPU.
In practice, the amount of CPU time that a thread gets depends on several
factors besides its priority.
Setting and Checking Priorities
Setting thread’s priority:
final void setPriority(int level)
where level specifies the new priority setting between:
1) MIN_PRIORITY (1)
2) MAX_PRIORITY (10)
3) NORM_PRIORITY (5)
Obtain the current priority setting:
final int getPriority()

Example: Priorities 1
A new thread class with click and running variables:
class Clicker implements Runnable {

int click = 0;
Thread t;
private volatile boolean running = true;
A new thread is created, its priority initialised:
public Clicker(int p) {
t = new Thread(this);
t.setPriority(p);
}
When running, click is incremented. When stopped, running is false:
public void run() {

while (running) {
click++;
}
}
public void stop() {
running = false;
}
public void start() {

t.start();
}
}
class HiLoPri {
The main thread is set at the highest priority, the new threads at two above
and two below the normal priority:
Thread.currentThread().
setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
clicker hi = new clicker(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY + 2);
clicker lo = new clicker(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY - 2);
The threads are started and allowed to run for 10 seconds:
lo.start();
hi.start();
try {
Thread.sleep(10000);
}
After 10 seconds, both threads are stopped and click variables printed:
lo.stop();
hi.stop();
try {
hi.t.join();
lo.t.join();
System.out.println("InterruptedException");
}
System.out.println("Low-priority: " + lo.click);

System.out.println("High-priority: " + hi.click);
}
}
Volatile Variable
The volatile keyword is used to declare the running variable:
private volatile boolean running = true;
This is to ensure that the value of running is examined at each iteration of:
while (running) {
click++;
}
Otherwise, Java is free to optimize the loop in such a way that a local copy
of running is created. The use of volatile prevents this optimization.
Synchronization
When several threads need access to a shared resource, they need some
way to ensure that the resource will be used by only one thread at a time.
This way is called synchronization.
Synchronization uses the concept of monitors:
1) only one thread can enter a monitor at any one time

2) other threads have to wait until the threat exits the monitor
Java implements synchronization in two ways: through the synchronized

methods and through the synchronized statement.
Synchronized Method
All objects have their own implicit monitor associated with them.
To enter an object’s monitor, call this object’s synchronized method.
While a thread is inside a monitor, all threads that try to call this or any other
synchronized method on this object have to wait.
To exit the monitor, it is enough to return from the synchronized method.
Consider first an example without synchronization…

Example: No Synchronization 1
The call method tries to print the message string inside brackets, pausing
the current thread for one second in the middle:
class Callme {
void call(String msg) {
System.out.print("[" + msg);
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch(InterruptedException e) {
System.out.println("Interrupted");
}
System.out.println("]");
}
}
Caller constructor obtains references to the Callme object and String,
stores them in the target and msg variables, then creates a new thread:
class Caller implements Runnable {

String msg;
Callme target;
Thread t;
public Caller(Callme targ, String s) {

target = targ;
msg = s;
t.start();
}
The Caller’s run method calls the call method on the target instance of
Calllme, passing in the msg string:
public void run() {

target.call(msg);
}
}
Synch class creates a single instance of Callme and three of Caller,
each with a message. The Callme instance is passed to each Caller:
class Synch {
Callme target = new Callme();
Caller ob1 = new Caller(target, "Hello");
Caller ob2 = new Caller(target, "Synchronized");
Caller ob3 = new Caller(target, "World");
Waiting for all three threads to finish:
try {
ob1.t.join();
ob2.t.join();
ob3.t.join();
}
}
}
No Synchronization
Output from the earlier program:
[Hello[Synchronized[World]
]
]
By pausing for one second, the call method allows execution to switch to
another thread. A mix-up of the outputs from of the three message strings.
In this program, nothing exists to stop all three threads from calling the same
method on the same object at the same time.
Synchronized Method
To fix the earlier program, we must serialize the access to call:
class Callme {
synchronized void call(String msg) {
…
}
}
This prevents other threads from entering call while another thread is using
it. The output result of the program is now as follows:
[Hello]
[Synchronized]
[World]
Synchronized Statement
How to synchronize access to instances of a class that was not designed for
multithreading and we have no access to its source code?
Put calls to the methods of this class inside the synchronized block:
synchronized(object) {
…
}
This ensures that a call to a method that is a member of the object occurs
only after the current thread has successfully entered the object’s monitor.
Example: Synchronized 1
Now the call method is not modified by synchronized:
class Callme {
void call(String msg) {
System.out.print("[" + msg);
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
System.out.println("]");
}
}
class Caller implements Runnable {
String msg;
Callme target;
Thread t;
public Caller(Callme targ, String s) {

target = targ;
msg = s;
t.start();
}
The Caller’s run method uses the synchronized statement to include
the call the target’s call method:
public void run() {

synchronized(target) {
target.call(msg);
}
}
}
class Synch1 {
Callme target = new Callme();
Caller ob1 = new Caller(target, "Hello");
Caller ob2 = new Caller(target, "Synchronized");
Caller ob3 = new Caller(target, "World");
try {
ob1.t.join();
ob2.t.join();
ob3.t.join();
}
}
}
Inter-Thread Communication
Inter-thread communication relies on three methods in the Object class:
1) final void wait() throws InterruptedException

tells the calling thread to give up the monitor and go to sleep until some
other thread enters the same monitor and calls notify().
2) final void notify()

wakes up the first thread that called wait() on the same object
3) final void notifyAll()

wakes up all the threads that called wait() on the same object; the
highest-priority thread will run first.
All three must be called from within a synchronized context.

Queuing Problem
Consider the classic queuing problem where one thread (producer) is
producing some data and another (consumer) is consuming this data:
1) producer should not overrun the consumer with data
2) consumer should not consume the same data many times
We consider two solutions:
1) incorrect with synchronized only

2) correct with synchronized and wait/notify
Example: Incorrect Queue 1
The one-place queue class Q, with the variable n and methods get and
put. Both methods are synchronized:
class Q {
int n;
synchronized int get() {

System.out.println("Got: " + n);
return n;
}
synchronized void put(int n) {
this.n = n;
System.out.println("Put: " + n);
}
}
Producer creates a thread that keeps producing entries for the queue:
class Producer implements Runnable {

Q q;
Producer(Q q) {
this.q = q;
new Thread(this, "Producer").start();
}
public void run() {
int i = 0;
while(true) {
q.put(i++);
}
}
}
Consumer creates a thread that keeps consuming entries in the queue:
class Consumer implements Runnable {

Q q;
Consumer(Q q) {
this.q = q;
new Thread(this, "Consumer").start();
}
public void run() {
while(true) {
q.get();
}
}
}
The PC class first creates a single Queue instance q, then creates a
Producer and Consumer that share this q:
class PC {
Q q = new Q();
new Producer(q);
new Consumer(q);
System.out.println("Press Control-C to stop.");
}
}
Why Incorrect?
Here is the output:
Put: 1
Got: 1
Got: 1
Put: 2
Put: 3
Get: 3
…
Nothing stops the producer from overrunning the consumer, nor the
consumer from consuming the same data twice.
Example: Corrected Queue 1
The correct producer-consumer system uses wait and notify to
synchronize the behavior of the producer and consumer.
The queue class introduces the additional boolean variable valueSet

used by the get and put methods:
class Q {
int n;
boolean valueSet = false;
Inside get, wait is called to suspend the execution of Consumer until
Producer notifies that some data is ready:
synchronized int get() {

if (!valueSet)
try {
wait();
}
catch(InterruptedException e) {
}
After the data has been obtained, get calls notify to tell Producer that it
can put more data on the queue:
System.out.println("Got: " + n);

valueSet = false;
notify();
return n;
}
Inside put, wait is called to suspend the execution of Producer until
Consumer has removed the item from the queue:
synchronized void put(int n) {

if (valueSet)
try {
wait();
}
After the next item of data is put in the queue, put calls notify to tell
Consumer that it can remove this item:
this.n = n;
valueSet = true;
System.out.println("Put: " + n);
notify();
}
}
Producer creates a thread that keeps producing entries for the queue:
class Producer implements Runnable {

Q q;
Producer(Q q) {
this.q = q;
new Thread(this, "Producer").start();
}
public void run() {
int i = 0;
while(true) {
q.put(i++);
}
}
}
Consumer creates a thread that keeps consuming entries in the queue:
class Consumer implements Runnable {

Q q;
Consumer(Q q) {
this.q = q;
new Thread(this, "Consumer").start();
}
public void run() {
while(true) {
q.get();
}
}
}
The PCFixed class first creates a single Queue instance q, then creates a
Producer and Consumer that share this q:
class PCFixed {
Q q = new Q();
new Producer(q);
new Consumer(q);
System.out.println("Press Control-C to stop.");
}
}
Deadlock
Multi-threading and synchronization create the danger of deadlock.
Deadlock: a circular dependency on a pair of synchronized objects.
Suppose that:
1) one thread enters the monitor on object X
2) another thread enters the monitor on object Y
3) the first thread tries to call a synchronized method on object Y
4) the second thread tries to call a synchronized method on object X
The result: the threads wait forever – deadlock.

Example: Deadlock 1
Class A contains the foo method which takes an instance b of class B as a
parameter. It pauses briefly before trying to call the b’s last method:
class A {
synchronized void foo(B b) {
String name = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(name + " entered A.foo");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
System.out.println("A Interrupted");
}
System.out.println(name + " trying B.last()");
b.last();
}
Example: Deadlock 2
Class A also contains the synchronized method last:
synchronized void last() {

System.out.println("Inside A.last");
}
}
Example: Deadlock 3
Class B contains the bar method which takes an instance a of class A as a
parameter. It pauses briefly before trying to call the a’s last method:
class B {
synchronized void bar(A a) {
String name = Thread.currentThread().getName();
System.out.println(name + " entered B.bar");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
System.out.println("B Interrupted");
}
System.out.println(name + " trying A.last()");
a.last();
}
Example: Deadlock 4
Class B also contains the synchronized method last:
synchronized void last() {

System.out.println("Inside A.last");
}
}
Example: Deadlock 5
The main Deadlock class creates the instances a of A and b of B:
class Deadlock implements Runnable {
A a = new A();
B b = new B();
Example: Deadlock 6
The constructor creates and starts a new thread, and creates a lock on the a
object in the main thread (running foo on a) with b passed as a parameter:
Deadlock() {
Thread.currentThread().setName("MainThread");
Thread t = new Thread(this, "RacingThread");
t.start();
a.foo(b);
System.out.println("Back in main thread");
}
Example: Deadlock 7
The run method creates a lock on the b object in the new thread (running
bar on b) with a passed as a parameter:
public void run() {

b.bar(a);
System.out.println("Back in other thread");
}
Create a new Deadlock instance:

new Deadlock();
}
}
Deadlock Reached
Program output:
MainThread entered A.foo

RacingThread entered B.bar
MainThread trying to call B.last()
RacingThread trying to call A.last()
RacingThread owns the monitor on b while waiting for the monitor on a.

MainThread owns the monitor on a while it is waiting for the monitor on b.
The program deadlocks!

Suspending/Resuming Threads
Thread management should use the run method to check periodically
whether the thread should suspend, resume or stop its own execution.
This is usually accomplished through a flag variable that indicates the

execution state of a thread, e.g.
1) running – the thread should continue executing

2) suspend – the thread must pause
3) stop – the thread must terminate
Example: Suspending/Resuming 1
NewThread class contains the boolean variable suspendFlag to control
the execution of a thread, initialized to false:

String name;
Thread t;
boolean suspendFlag;
name = threadname;
suspendFlag = false;
t.start();
}
The run method contains the synchronized statement that checks
suspendFlag. If true, the wait method is called.
public void run() {

try {
for (int i = 15; i > 0; i--) {
Thread.sleep(200);
synchronized(this) {
while(suspendFlag) wait();
}
}
}
catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.out.println(name + " interrupted.");
}
}
The mysuspend method sets suspendFlag to true:
void mysuspend() {
suspendFlag = true;
}
The myresume method sets suspendFlag to false and invokes notify

to wake up the thread:
synchronized void myresume() {

suspendFlag = false;
notify();
}
}
SuspendResume class creates two instances ob1 and ob2 of NewThread,
therefore two new threads, through its main method:
class SuspendResume {

NewThread ob1 = new NewThread("One");
NewThread ob2 = new NewThread("Two");
The two threads are kept running, then suspended, then resumed from the
main thread:
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
ob1.mysuspend();
System.out.println("Suspending thread One");
Thread.sleep(1000);
ob1.myresume();
System.out.println("Resuming thread One");
ob2.mysuspend();
System.out.println("Suspending thread Two");
Thread.sleep(1000);
ob2.myresume();
System.out.println("Resuming thread Two");
}
The main thread waits for the two child threads to finish, then finishes itself:
try {
System.out.println("Waiting to finish.");
ob1.t.join();
ob2.t.join();
}
}
}
The Last Word on Multi-Threading
Multi-threading is a powerful tool to writing efficient programs.
When you have two subsystems within a program that can execute
concurrently, make them individual threads.
However, creating too many threads can actually degrade the performance
of your program because of the cost of context switching.
Exercise: Multi-Threading 1
1) Create a new main class called MultiThread
2) Create a new class called MemoryThread . This class should
implement the interface Runnable so that it can be run as a thread.
This Thread will monitor the memory usage on the system.
a) Add void start(), stop() and run() methods.
b) The run() method should print to the screen every 5 seconds the
amount of memory presently being used. This can be done using
these two lines of code:
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
long memoryUsed = r.totalMemory()- r.freeMemory();
3) Create a new class called ClockThread. This class should implement

the interface Runnable so that it can be run as a thread. This Thread
will monitor what the time is.
a) The constructor for ClockThread should take an argument that
sets the time (in seconds) that this thread will run for.
b) Add void start(), stop() and run() methods.
c) The run() method should print the current time to the screen every
5 seconds. This can be done using the built in Date class.
import java.util.Date;
Date timeNow = new Date();
System.out.println(timeNow.toString());
The run() method should stop when the elapsed time set in the
constructor has been reached.
4) In the main() method of MultiThread create the two thread objects
and start them; using the start() method.
5) Add a while loop, that will print the number of active Threads every one
second. A one second pause can be implemented as follows:
while (true) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
6) The number of threads can be monitored using the ThreadGroup class
as follows:
int numThreads =
Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup().activeCount();
7) This while loop should terminate after one minute and the two threads
stopped by invoking their stop() methods.
8) When printing to the screen - the Threads names should be appended so
that it is clear from which process the data is originating.
9) The MemoryThread thread should be assigned a maximum priority and

the ClockThread thread a minimum priority.
) 9 -+
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Horizontal Libraries
Horizontal libraries are APIs that are used across the language.
Java provides a rich set of horizontal libraries:
a) String handling – for handling sequence of characters

b) event handling – helps to handle how programs respond to actions
generated by the user.
c) Object collection – handling a group of objects
/ .) .
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
String Object
String is a sequence of characters.
Unlike many other programming languages that implements string as

character arrays, Java implements strings as object of type String.
This provides a full compliment of features that make string handling

convenient. For example, Java String has methods to:
1) compare two strings

2) Search for a substring
3) Concatenate two strings and
4) Change the case of letters within a string
5) Can be constructed a number of ways making it easy to obtain a string
when needed
String is Immutable
Once a String Object has been created, you cannot change the characters
that comprise that string.
This is not a restriction. It means each time you need an altered version of an
existing string, a new string object is created that contains the modification.
It is more efficient to implement immutable strings than changeable ones.
To solve this, Java provides a companion class to String called

StringBuffer.
StringBuffer objects can be modified after they are created.

String Constructors 1
String supports several constrictors:
1) to create an empty String
String s = new String();
2) to create a string that have initial values

String(char chars[])
Example:
char chars[] = {‘a’,’b’,’c’};
String s = new String(chars);
3) to create a string as a subrange of a character array
String(char chars[], int startindex, int numchars)
Here, startindex specifies the index at which the subrange begins,

and numChars specifies the number of characters to use.
Example:
char chars[] = {‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’,’e’,’f’};
String s = new String(chars,2,3);
This initializes s with the characters cde.

4) to construct a String object that contains the same character sequence
as another String object
String(String obj)
Example
class MakeString {
char c[] = {'J', 'a', 'v', 'a'};
String s1 = new String(c);
String s2 = new String(s1);
System.out.println(s1);
System.out.println(s2);
}
}
String Length
The length of a string is the number of characters that it contains.
To obtain this value call the length()method:

int length()
The following fragment prints “3”, since there are three characters in the
string s.

String s = new String(chars);
System.out.println(s.lenght());
String Operations
Strings are a common and important part of programming.
Java provides several string operations within the syntax of the language.
These operations include:

1) automatic creation of new String instances from literals
2) concatenation of multiple String objects using the + operator
3) conversion of other data types to a string representation
There are explicit methods to perform all these functions, but Java does them
automatically for the convenience of the programmer and to add clarity.
String Literals
Using String literals is an easier way of creating Strings Objects.
For each String literal, Java automatically constructs a String object.

You can use String literal to initialize a String object.
Example:
String s1 = new String(chars);
Using String literals

String s2 = “abc”;
String Concatenation
Java does not allow operations to be applied to a String object.
The one exception to this rule is the + operator, which concatenates two
strings producing a string object as a result.
With this you ca chain together a series of + operations.
Example:
String age = “9”;

String s = “He is ” + age + “ years old.”;
System.out.println(s);
Concatenation Usage
One practical use is found when you are creating very long strings.
Instead of letting long strings wrap around your source code, you can break
them into smaller pieces, using the + to concatenate them.
Example:
class ConCat {
String longStr = "This could have been " +
"a very long line that would have " +
"wrapped around. But string concatenation "
+ "prevents this.";
System.out.println(longStr);
}
}
Concatenation & Other Data Type
You can concatenate Strings with other data types.
Example:
int age = 9;
String s = “He is ” + age + “ years old.”;
The compiler will convert an operand to its string equivalent whenever the
other operand of the + ia an instance of String.
Be careful:
String s = “Four:” + 2 + 2;
Prints Four:22 rather than Four: 4.
To achieve the desired result, bracket has to be used.
String s = “Four:” + (2 + 2);
Conversion and toString() Method
When Java converts data into its string representation during concatenation,
it does so by calling one of its overloaded valueOf() method defined by
String.
valueOf() is overloaded for

1) simple types – which returns a string that contains the human –
readable equivalent of the value with which it is called.
2) object types – which calls the toString() method of the object.
Example: toString() Method 1
Override toString() for Box class
class Box {
double width;
double height;
double depth;

width = w;
height = h;
depth = d;
}
public String toString() {
return "Dimensions are " + width + " by " +
depth + " by " + height + ".";
}
}
class toStringDemo {
Box b = new Box(10, 12, 14);
String s = "Box b: " + b; // concatenate Box object
System.out.println(b); // convert Box to string

}
}
Box’s toString() method is automatically invoked when a Box object is
used in a concatenation expression or in a Call to println().
Character Extraction
String class provides a number of ways in which characters can be extracted
from a String object.
String index begin at zero.
These extraction methods are:

1) charAt()
2) getChars()
3) getBytes()
4) toCharArray()
Each will considered.

charAt()
To extract a single character from a String.
General form:
char charAt(int where)
where is the index of the character you want to obtain. The value of where
must be nonnegative and specify alocation within the string.
Example:
char ch;
ch = “abc”.charAt(1);
Assigns a value of “b” to ch.
getChars()
Used to extract more than one character at a time.
General form:
void getChars(int sourceStart, int sourceEnd, char[]
target, int targetStart)
sourceStart – specifies the index of the beginning of the substring

sourceEnd – specifies an index that is one past the end of the desired
subString
target – is the array that will receive the characters
targetStart – is the index within target at which the subString will be
copied is passed in this parameter
getChars()
class getCharsDemo {
String s = "This is a demo of the getChars method.";
int start = 10;
int end = 14;
char buf[] = new char[end - start];
s.getChars(start, end, buf, 0);
System.out.println(buf);
}
}
getBytes()
Alternative to getChars() that stores the characters in an array of bytes. It
uses the default character-to-byte conversions provided by the platform.
General form:
byte[] getBytes()
Usage:
Most useful when you are exporting a String value into an environment that
does not support 16-bit Unicode characters.
For example, most internet protocols and text file formats use 8-bit ASCII for
all text interchange.
toCharArray()
To convert all the characters in a String object into character array.
It returns an array of characters for the entire string.
General form:
char[] toCharArray()
It is provided as a convenience, since it is possible to use getChars() to

achieve the same result.
String Comparison
The String class includes several methods that compare strings or substrings
within strings.
They are:
1) equals() and equalsIgnoreCase()
2) regionMatches()
3) startWith() and endsWith()
4) equals() Versus ==
5) comapreTo()
Each will be considered.

equals()
To compare two Strings for equality, use equals()
General form:
boolean equals(Object str)
str is the String object being compared with the invoking String object.
It returns true if the string contain the same character in the same order, and
false otherwise.
The comparison is case-sensitive.

equalsIgnoreCase()
To perform operations that ignores case differences.
When it compares two strings, it considers A-Z as the same as a-z.
General form:
boolean equalsIgnoreCase(Object str)
str is the String object being compared with the invoking String object.
It returns true if the string contain the same character in the same order,
and false otherwise.
The comparison is case-sensitive.

equals and equalsIgnoreCase() 1
Example:
class equalsDemo {
String s1 = "Hello";
String s3 = "Good-bye";
String s4 = "HELLO";
System.out.println(s1 + " equals " + s2 + " -> " +
s1.equals(s2));
s1.equals(s3));
equals and equalsIgnoreCase() 2
s1.equals(s4));
System.out.println(s1 + " equalsIgnoreCase " + s4 +
" -> " + s1.equalsIgnoreCase(s4));
}
}
regionMatches() 1
Compares a specific region inside a string with another specific region in
another string.
There is an overloaded form that allows you to ignore case in such
comparison.
General form:
boolean regionMatches(int startindex, String str2,
int str2StartIndex, int numChars)
boolean regionMatches(boolean ignoreCase, int

startindex, String str2, int str2StartIndex,
int numChars)
regionMatches() 2
In both versions, startIndex specifies the index at which the region begins
within the invoking String object.
The string object being compared is specified as str.
The index at which the comparison will start within str2 is specified by
str2StartIndex.
The length of the substring being comapred is passed in numChars.
In the second version, if the ignoreCase is true, the case of the

characters is ignored. Otherwise case is significant.
startsWith() and endsWith() 1
String defines two routines that are more or less the specialised forms of
regionMatches().
The startsWith() method determines whether a given string begins with

a specified string.
Conversely, endsWith() method determines whether the string in question
ends with a specified string.
General form:
boolean startsWith(String str)
boolean endsWith(String str)
str is the String being tested. If the string matches, true is returned,
otherwise false is returned.
Example:
“Foobar”.endsWith(“bar”);
and
“Foobar”.startsWith(“Foo”);
are both true.
A second form of startsWith(), let you specify a starting point:
General form:
boolean startWith(String str, int startIndex)
Where startIndex specifies the index into the invoking string at which
point the search will begin.
Example:
“Foobar”.startsWith(“bar”, 3);
returns true.
equals() Versus ==
It is important to understand that the two metyhod performs different
functions.
1) equals() method compares the characters inside a String object.

2) == operator compares two object references to see whether they refer to
the same instance.
Example: equals() Versus ==
class EqualsNotEqualTo {
String s2 = new String(s1);
System.out.print(s1 + " equals " + s2 + " -> “);
System.out.println(s1.equals(s2));
System.out.print(s1 + " == " + s2 + " -> “)
System.out.println((s1 == s2));
}
}
compareTo() 1
It is not enough to know that two Strings are identical. You need to know
which is less than, equal to, or greater than the next.
A string is less than the another if it comes before the other in the dictionary
order.
A string is greater than the another if it comes after the other in the dictionary
order.
The String method compareTo() serves this purpose.

compareTo() 2
General form:
int compareTo(String str)
str is the string that is being compared with the invoking String. The result
of the comparison is returned and is interpreted as shown here:
Less than zero The invoking string is less than str
Greater than zero The invoking string is greater than str

Zero The two strings are equal
Example: compareTo()
class SortString {
static String arr[] =
{"Now", "is", "the", "time", "for", "all", "good,”
“men","to", "come", "to", "the", "aid", "of","their",
"country"};
for(int j = 0; j < arr.length; j++) {
for(int i = j + 1; i < arr.length;
i++) {
if(arr[i].compareTo(arr[j]) < 0)
{
String t = arr[j];
arr[j] = arr[i];
arr[i] = t;
Searching String 1
String class provides two methods that allows you search a string for a
specified character or substring:
1) indexOf() – Searches for the first occurrence of a character or

substring.
2) lastIndexOf() – Searches for the last occurrence of a charater or
substring.
These two methods are overloaded in several different ways. In all cases, the
methods return the index at which the character or substring was found, or
-1 on failure.
Searching String 2
To seach for the first occurrence of a character, use
int indexOf(int ch)
To search for the last occurrence of a character, use
int lastIndexOf(int ch)
To search for the first and the last occurence of a substring, use
int indexOf(String str)
int lastIndexOf(String str)
Here str specifies the substring.
Searching String 3
You can specify a starting point for the serach using these forms:
int indexOf(int ch, int startIndex)

int lastIndexOf(int ch, int startIndex)
int indexOf(String str, int startIndex)

int lastIndexOf(String str, int startIndex)
startIndex – specifies the index at which point the search begins.
For indexOf(), the search runs from startIndex to the end of the string.
For lastIndexOf(), the search runs from startIndex to zero.
Example: Searching String 1
class indexOfDemo {
String s = "Now is the time for all good men " +
"to come to the aid of their country.";
System.out.println("indexOf(t) = " +
s.indexOf('t'));
System.out.println("lastIndexOf(t) = " +
s.lastIndexOf('t'));
System.out.println("indexOf(the) = " +
s.indexOf("the"));
System.out.println("lastIndexOf(the) = " +
s.lastIndexOf("the"));
Example: Searching String 2
System.out.println("indexOf(t, 10) = " +
s.indexOf('t', 10));
System.out.println("lastIndexOf(t, 60) = " +
s.lastIndexOf('t', 60));
System.out.println("indexOf(the, 10) = " +
s.indexOf("the", 10));
System.out.println("lastIndexOf(the, 60) = " +
s.lastIndexOf("the", 60));
}
}
Modifying a String
String object are immutable.
Whenever you want to modify a String, you must either copy it into a
StringBuffer or use the following String methods,, which will construct a new
copy of the string with your modification complete.
They are:
1) subString()
2) concat()
3) replace()
4) trim()
Each will be discussed.

subString() 1
You can extract a substring using subString().
It has two forms:
String substring(int startIndex)
startIndex specifies the index at which the substring will begin. This form
returns a copy of the substring that begins at startIndex and runs to the end
of the invoking string.
subString() 2
The second form allows you to specify both the beginning and ending index
of the substring.
String substring(int startIndex, int ensIndex)
startIndex specifies the index beginning index, and

endIndex specifies the stopping point.
The string returned contains all the characters from the beginning index, up
to, but not including, the ending index.
Example: subString()
class StringReplace {
String org = "This is a test. This is, too.";
String search = "is";
String sub = "was";
String result = "";
int i;
do { // replace all matching substrings
System.out.println(org);
i = org.indexOf(search);
if(i != -1) {
result = org.substring(0, i);
Example: subString()
result = result + sub;
result = result + org.substring(i +
search.length());
org = result;
}
} while(i != -1);
}
}
concat()
You can concatenate two string using concat()
General form:
String concat(String str)
This method creates a new object that contains the invoking string with the
contents of str appended to the end.
concat() performs the same function as +.

Example:
String s1 =“one”;
String s2 = s1.concat(“two”);
Or
String s2 = s1 + “two”;
replace()
Replaces all occurences of one character in the invoking string with another
character.
General form:
String replace(char original, char replacement)
original – specifies the character to be replaced by the charscter

specified by replacement. The resulting string is returned.
Example:
String s = “Hello”.replace(‘l’,’w’);
Puts the string “Hewwo” into s.

trim()
Returns a copy of the involving string from which any leading and trailing
whitespace has been removed.
General form:
String trim();
Example:
String s = “ Hello world “.trim();
This puts the string “Hello world” into s.

It is quite useful when you process user commands.
Example: trim() 1
import java.io.*;
class UseTrim {
public static void main(String args[]) throws
IOException{
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
String str;
System.out.println("Enter 'stop' to quit.");
System.out.println("Enter State: ");
do {
str = br.readLine();
Example: trim() 2
str = str.trim(); // remove whitespace
if(str.equals("Illinois"))
System.out.println("Capital is pringfield.");
else if(str.equals("Missouri"))
System.out.println("Capital is Jefferson
City.");
else if(str.equals("California"))
System.out.println("Capital is Sacramento.");
else if(str.equals("Washington"))
System.out.println("Capital is Olympia.");
} while(!str.equals("stop"));
}
}
Data Conversion Using valueOf()
Converts data from its internal format into human-readable form.
It is a static method that is overloaded within String for all of Java’s built-in
types, so that each of the type can be converted properly into a String.
valueOf() can be overloaded for type Object so an object of any class

type you create can also be used as an argument.
General forms:
static String valueOf(double num)
static String valueOf(long num)
static String valueOf(Object obj)
static String valueOf(char chars[])
Case of Characters
The method toLowerCase() converts all the characters in a string from
uppercase to lowercase.
The toUpperCase() method converts all the characters in a string from

lowercase to uppercase.
Non-alphabetical characters, such as digits are unaffected.
General form:
String toLowercase()
String toUppercase()
Example: Case of Characters
class ChangeCase {
String s = "This is a test.";
System.out.println("Original: " + s);
String upper = s.toUpperCase();
String lower = s.toLowerCase();
System.out.println("Uppercase: " + upper);
System.out.println("Lowercase: " + lower);
}
}
StringBuffer
StringBuffer is a peer class of string that provides much of the
functionality of Strings.
String is immutable. StringBuffer represents growable and writable

character sequence.
StringBuffer may have characters and substring inserted in the middle

or appended to the end.
StringBuffer will automatically grow to make room for such additions

and often has more characters preallocated than are actually needed, to
allow room for growth.
StringBuffer Constructors
Defines three constructors:
1) StringBuffer() – default and reserves room for 16 characters without

reallocation
2) StringBuffer(int size) – accepts an integer argument that

explicitly sets the size of the buffer
3) StringBuffer(String str) – accepts a String argument that

initially sets the content of the StringBuffer Object and reserves room
for more16 characters without reallocation.
Length() and capacity()
Current length of a StringBuffer can be found via the length() method,
while the total allocated capacity can be found throught the capacity()
method.
General form:
int length()
Int capacity()
Example: Length() and capacity()
class StringBufferDemo {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Hello");
System.out.println("buffer = " + sb);

System.out.println("length = " + sb.length());
System.out.println("capacity = " + sb.capacity());
}
}
ensureCapacity()
Use ensureCapacity() to set the size of the buffer in order to preallocate
room for a certain number of characters after a StringBuffer has been
constructed.
General form:
void ensureCapacity(int capacity)

Here, capacity specifies the size of the buffer.
Usage:
Useful if you know in advance that you ill be appending a large number of
small strings to a StringBuffer.
setLength()
To set the length of the buffer within a StringBuffer object.
General form:
void setlengthint len)
Here, len specifies the lenght of the buffer.
Usage:
When you increase the length of the buffer, null characters are added to the
end of the existing buffer. If you call setLength() with a value less than the
current value returned by length(), then the characters stored beyond the
new length will be lost.
charAt() and setCharAt()
To obtain the value of a single character, use CharAt().
To set the value of a character within StringBuffer, use setCharAt().
General form:
char charAt(int where)
void setCharAt(int where, char ch)
For charAt(), where specifies the index of the characters being obtained.
For setCharAt(), where specifies the index of the characters being set,
and ch specifies the new value of that character.
where must be non negative and must not specify a location beyond the end
of the buffer.
Example:charAt() and setCharAt()
class setCharAtDemo {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Hello");
System.out.println("buffer before = " + sb);
System.out.println("charAt(1) before = " +
sb.charAt(1));
sb.setCharAt(1, 'i');
sb.setLength(2);
System.out.println("buffer after = " + sb);
System.out.println("charAt(1) after = " +
sb.charAt(1));
}
}
getChars()
To copy a substring of a StringBuffer into an array.
General form:
void getChars(int srcBegin, int srcEnd, char[] dst,
int dstBegin)
Where:
srcBegin - start copying at this offset.
srcEnd - stop copying at this offset.
dst - the array to copy the data into.
dstBegin - offset into dst.
append()
Concatenates the string representation of any other type of data to the end of
the invoking StringBuffer object.
General form:
StringBuffer append(Object obj)
StringBuffer append(String str)
StringBuffer append(int num)
String.valueOf() is called for each parameter to obtain its string

representation. The result is appended to the current StringBuffer
object.
Example: append()
class appendDemo {
String s;
int a = 42;
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(40);
s = sb.append("a =
").append(a).append("!").toString();
}
}
insert()
Inserts one string into another. It is overloaded to accept values of all the
simple types, plus String and Objects.
General form:
StringBuffer insert(int index, String str)
StringBuffer insert(int index, char ch)
StringBuffer insert(int index, Object obj)
Here, index specifies the index at which point the String will be inserted
into the invoking StringBuffer object.
Example: insert()
class insertDemo {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("I Java!");
sb.insert(2, "like ");

System.out.println(sb);
}
}
reverse()
To reverse the character within a StringBuffer object.
General form:
StringBuffer reverse()
This method returns the reversed on which it was called.
For example:
class ReverseDemo {
StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer("abcdef");
s.reverse();
}
}
replace()
Replaces one set of characters with another set inside a StringBuffer object.
General form:
StringBuffer replace(int startIndex, String endIndex,
String str)
The substring being replaced is specified by the indexes startIndex and

endIndex. Thus, the substring at startIndex through endIndex-1
is replaced. The replacement string is passed in str. The resulting
StringBuffer object is returned.
Example: replace()
class replaceDemo {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("This is a
test.");
sb.replace(5, 7, "was");
System.out.println("After replace: " + sb);
}
}
substring()
Returns a portion of a StringBuffer.
General form:
String substring(int startIndex)
String substring(int startIndex, int endIndex)
The first form returns the substring that starts at startIndex and runs to
the end of the invoking StringBuffer object.
The second form returns the substring that starts at startIndex and runs
through endIndex-1.
These methods work just llike those defined for String that were
described earlier.
Exercise: String Handling
1.) Write a program that computes your initials from your full name and
displays them.
2.) Write a program to test if a word is a palindrome.
3.) Write a program to read English text to end-of-data, and print a count of
word lengths, i.e. the total number of words of length 1 which occurred,
the number of length 2, and so on.
Type in question 3 as input to test your program.
4.) An anagram is a word or a phrase made by transposing the letters of

another word or phrase; for example, "parliament" is an anagram of
"partial men," and "software" is an anagram of "swear oft." Write a
program that figures out whether one string is an anagram of another
string. The program should ignore white space and punctuation.
8* ) .
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Event Handling
For the user to interact with a GUI, the underlying operating system must
support event handling.
1) operating systems constantly monitor events such as keystrokes,

mouse clicks, ink input, voice command, etc.
2) operating systems sort out these events and report them to the
appropriate application programs
3) each application program then decides what to do in response to these
events
Complexity vs. Power
Many programming languages have their ways of implementing events:
1) Visual Basic
a) Each component responds to a fixed set of events
2) C
a) A giant loop with a massive switch statement
3) Java
a) Event delegation model – events are transmitted from event
sources to event listeners
b) You can designate any object to be an event listener
Event Handling Components 1
Event handling involves three components:
1) listener object is an instance of a class that implements a special
interface called a listener interface.
2) event source is an object that can register listener objects and send
them event objects
3) event source sends out event objects to all registered listeners
when that event occurs.
The listener objects reacts based on the information in the event.

Event Handling Process 1
Register listener object with the event source object
eventSourceObject.addEventListener(eventListenerObject);
For example
ActionListener listener = …;
JButton button = new JButton(“OK”);
button.addActionListener(listener);
The listener object is notified whenever an action event occurs in the

button (i.e., a button click)
The class to which the listener object belongs should implement the
appropriate interface (in this case, the ActionListener interface)
Listener class must have a method actionPerformed that receives an

ActionEvent object as a parameter
For Example:
class MyListener implements ActionListener {
...
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
{
// reaction to button click goes here
...
}
}
Whenever the user clicks the button,
the JButton object creates an ActionEvent object and
calls listener.actionPerformed(event), passing that event object
It is possible for multiple objects to be added as listeners to an event

source by using the addActionListener(listener).
The actionPerformed methods of all listeners will be called.

ActionEvent Handling Example
MyPanel
new
JButton
new
addActionListener
MyListener
actionPerformed
Event and Listener Objects
Different event sources can produce different kinds of events
a) ActionEvent – sent by JButton click and other components

b) WindowEvent – sent by JFrame
Different listener objects implement different required methods from

interfaces
1) ActionListener – action performed

2) WindowListener – activated, closed, closing, deactivated,
deiconified, iconified, opened
Example: JButton
Object
Component
Container
JComponent Window
JPanel AbstractButton Frame
JFrame
JButton
Example: JButton Event 1
class ButtonPanel extends JPanel {
public ButtonPanel( ) {
JButton yellowButton = new JButton(“Yellow");
JButton blueButton = new JButton(“Blue");
JButton redButton = new JButton(“Red");
add(yellowButton);
add(blueButton);
add(redButton);
}
}
Constructors – button with a label string, an icon, or both a label string and
an icon
JButton blueButton = new JButton(“Blue");
JButton blueButton = new JButton(new ImageIcon(“blue-
ball.gif”));
Event Hierarchy 1
All events in Java descend from the EventObject class in the java.util
package
a) The EventObject class has a subclass AWTEvent, which is the

parent of all AWT event classes
b) Some of the Swing components generate event objects that directly
extend EventObject, not AWTEvent
c) You can add your own custom events by subclassing EventObject
or any of the subclasses
The event objects encapsulate information about the event that the event
source communicates to its listeners.
Event Hierarchy 2
Event
AWTEvent
Object
Action Adjustment Component Item

Event Event Event Event
Focus Input Paint Window

Event Event Event Event
Key Mouse
Event Event
MouseWheel
Event
Example: AWT Event Objects
Commonly used AWT event types
1) ActionEvent
2) AdjustmentEvent
3) FocusEvent
4) ItemEvent
5) KeyEvent
6) MouseEvent
7) MouseWheelEvent
8) WindowEvent
Example: AWT Listener Interfaces
The following interfaces listen to these events
1) ActionListener
2) AdjustmentListener
3) FocusListener
4) ItemListener
5) KeyListener
6) MouseListener
7) MouseMotionListener
8) MouseWheelListener
9) WindowListener
10) WindowFocusListener
11) WindowStateListener
Adapter Classes
Adapter Class exists as convenience for creating a listener object.
Extend this class to create a listener for a particular listener interface and
override the methods for the events of interest.
It defines null methods for all of the methods in the listener interface, so
you can only have to define methods for events you care about.
Commonly used adapter classes:

1) FocusAdapter
2) KeyAdapter
3) MouseAdapter
4) MouseMotionAdapter
5) WindowAdapter
Event Types
There are two types of events:
1) Semantic event – expresses what the user is doing
a) ActionEvent – button click, menu selection, list item
selection, press ENTER in a text field
b) AdjustmentEvent – scrollbar adjustment
c) ItemEvent – selection from a set of checkbox or list items
2) Low-level event –makes user interactions possible
a) FocusEvent – a component got focus or lost focus
b) KeyEvent – key was pressed or released
c) MouseEvent – mouse button pressed, released, moved, dragged
d) MouseWheelEvent – mouse wheel rotated
e) WindowEvent – window state changed
Event Handling Summary
Event 1..*
Event
Source <<set of one or more>>
Listener
<<implements>>
Listener
Interface
Implementation:
Exercise: Event Handling
1) What listener would you implement to be notified when a particular
component has appeared on screen? What method tells you this
information?
2) What listener would you implement to be notified when the user has
finished editing a text field by pressing Enter?
3) What listener would you implement to be notified as each character is
typed into a text field? Note that you should not implement a general-
purpose key listener, but a listener specific to text.
4) What listener would you implement to be notified when a spinner’s value
has changed? How would you get the spinner’s new value?
5) The default behavior for the focus subsystem is to consume the focus
traversal keys, such as Tab and Shift Tab. Say you want to prevent this
from happening in one of your application’s components. How would you
accomplish this?
4+7 5
Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Overview 1
1) Introduction - tells you what collections are, and how they will make your
job easier and your programs better.
2) Interfaces - describes the core collection interfaces, which are the heart
and soul of the Java Collections Framework. You will learn:
a) general guidelines for effective use of these interfaces, including
when to use which interface
b) idioms for each interface that will help you get the most out of the
interfaces.
Overview 2
3) Implementations - describes the JDK's general-purpose collection
implementations and tells you when to use which implementation.
4) Algorithms - describes the polymorphic algorithms provided by the JDK

to operate on collections. With any luck you will never have to write your
own sort routine again!
What Is a Collection?
Collection (sometimes called a container) is simply an object that groups
multiple elements into a single unit.
Usage:
1) to store and retrieve data
2) to manipulate data
3) to transmit data from one method to another
Collections typically represent data items that form a natural group like:
1) a poker hand (a collection of cards)
2) a mail folder (a collection of letters)
3) a telephone directory (a collection of name-to-phone-number mappings)
Collection Framework 1
A collections framework is a unified architecture for representing and
manipulating collections.
All collections frameworks contain three things:

1) Interfaces
a) abstract data types representing collections.
b) Interfaces allow collections to be manipulated independently of the
details of their representation.
2) Implementations
a. concrete implementations of the collection interfaces.
b. In essence, these are reusable data structures.
3) Algorithms
a) methods that perform useful computations like searching and
sorting, on objects that implement collection interfaces.
b) they are polymorphic because the same method can be used on
many different implementations of the appropriate collections
interface.
c) In essence, they are reusable functionality.
Benefits 1
Collection Framework offers the following benefits:
1) It reduces programming effort

a) Powerful data structures and algorithms
2) It increases program speed and quality

a) High quality implementations
b) Fine tuning by switching implementations
3) It allows interoperability among unrelated APIs

a) Passing objects around from one API to another
Benefits 2
4) It reduces the effort to learn and use new APIs
a) Uniformity of the framework
b) APIs of applications
5) It reduces effort to design new APIs
6) It fosters software reuse

a) New data structures and algorithms
Core Collection Interfaces 1
These are interfaces used to manipulate collections, and pass them from
one method to another.
Purpose:
1)To allow collections to be manipulated independently of the details of
their representation.
Note:
1) They are the heart and soul of the collections framework.
2) When you understand how to use these interfaces, you know most of
what there is to know about the framework.
The core collections interfaces are shown below:
There are four basic core collection interfaces:
1) Collection
2) Set
3) List
4) Map
Collection
The Collection interface is the root of the collection hierarchy.
Usage:
To pass around collections of objects where maximum generality is
desired.
Behaviors:
1) Basic Operations
2) Bulk Operations
3) Array Operations
Collection Methods 1
public interface Collection {
// Basic Operations
int size();
boolean isEmpty();
boolean contains(Object element);
boolean add(Object element); // Optional
boolean remove(Object element); // Optional
Iterator iterator();
// Bulk Operations
boolean containsAll(Collection c);
boolean addAll(Collection c); // Optional
boolean removeAll(Collection c); // Optional
boolean retainAll(Collection c); // Optional
void clear(); // Optional
Collection Methods 2
// Array Operations
Object[] toArray();
Object[] toArray(Object a[]);
}
It has methods to tell you:
1) how many elements are in the collection (size, isEmpty)

2) to check if a given object is in the collection (contains)
3) to add and remove an element from the collection (add, remove),
4) and to provide an iterator over the collection (iterator)
Set 1
A Set is a Collection that cannot contain duplicate elements.
Set models the mathematical set abstraction.
Example:
1) Set of Cars - {BMW, Ford, Jeep, Chevrolet, Nissan, Toyota, VW}
2) Nationalities in the class - {Chinese, American, Canadian, Indian}
It extends Collection and contains no methods other than those inherited

from Collection.
Set 2
Set extends Collection to add the following functionality:
a) stronger contract on the behavior of the equals and hashCode

operations,
b) allowing Set objects with different implementation types to be
compared meaningfully.
Two Set objects are equal if they contain the same elements.
Set Methods 1
The Set interface is shown below:
public interface Set {
// Basic Operations
int size();
boolean isEmpty();
boolean contains(Object element);
boolean add(Object element); // Optional
boolean remove(Object element); // Optional
Iterator iterator();
// Bulk Operations
boolean containsAll(Collection c);
boolean addAll(Collection c); // Optional
boolean removeAll(Collection c); // Optional
Set Methods 2
boolean retainAll(Collection c); // Optional
void clear(); // Optional
// Array Operations
Object[] toArray();
Object[] toArray(Object a[]);
}
Provides two general purpose implementations:

1) HashSet - which stores its elements in a hash table, is the best-
performing
2) TreeSet - which stores its elements in a red-black tree, guarantees
the order of iteration.
Example: Set
import java.util.*;
public class FindDups {

Set s = new HashSet();
for (int i=0; i<args.length; i++)
if (!s.add(args[i]))
System.out.print("Duplicate”)
System.out.println(“detected: "+args[i]);
System.out.println(s.size()+" distinct”)
System.out.println(“words detected: "+s);
}
}
List 1
An ordered collection (sometimes called a sequence)
Lists may contain duplicate elements
Collection operations:
1) remove operation removes the first occurrence of the specified
element
2) add and addAll operations always appends new elements to the end
of the list.
3) Two List objects are equal if they contain the same elements in the
same order.
List 2
1) New List operations
a) Positional access
b) Search
c) Iteration (ordered, backward)
d) Range-view operations
2) General Purpose Implementation

a) ArrayList
b) ListIterator
Example: List
private static void swap(List a, int i, int j)
{
Object tmp = a.get(i);
a.set(i, a.get(j));
a.set(j, tmp);
}
for (ListIterator i=l.listIterator(l.size());

i.hasPrevious(); ) {
Foo f = (Foo)i.previous();
...
}
Exampe: List
public static void replace(List l, Object val, List
newVals){
for (ListIterator i = l.listIterator(); i.hasNext() ;
) {
if (val==null ? i.next()==null :
val.equals(i.next())) {
i.remove();
for (Iterator j = newVals.iterator(); j.hasNext();
)
i.add(j.next());
}
}
}
Iterator
A mechanism for iterating over a collection’s elements.
Represented by the Iterator interface.
Iterator allows the caller to remove elements from the underlying collection
during the iteration with well-defined semantics
The only safe way to modify a collection during iteration
Location: java.util.Iterator
Example: Iterator
static void filter(Collection c)
{
for (Iterator it = c.iterator() ; it.hasNext(); )
if (!cond(it.next()))
it.remove();
}
static void filter(Collection c)

{
Iterator it = c.iterator();
while (it.hasNext())
if (!cond(it.next()))
it.remove();
}
Map 1
A Map is an object that maps keys to values. Maps cannot contain duplicate
keys.
1) Each key can map to at most one value
2) A map cannot contain duplicate keys.
3) Two Map objects are equal if they
represent the same key-value mappings
A 1
B 2
Examples: C 3
a) Think of a dictionary:
D Illegal mapping
word <-> description
b) address book
Map
name <-> phone number
Map 2
1) Collection-view methods allow a Map to be viewed as a Collection
a) keySet – The Set of keys contained in the Map
b) values – The Collection of values contained in the Map
c) entrySet – The Set of key-value pairs contained in the Map
2) With all three Collection-views, calling an Iterator's remove operation

removes the associated entry from the backing Map.
a) This is the only safe way to modify a Map during iteration.
3) Every object can be used as a hash key
4) Two Map objects are equal if they represent the same key-value
mappings
Example: Map 1
import java.util.*;
public class Freq {
private static final Integer ONE = new Integer(1);
public static void main(String args[]){
Map m = new HashMap();
for (int i=0; i<args.length; i++) {
Integer freq = (Integer)m.get(args[i]);
m.put(args[i], (freq==null ?
ONE : new Integer(freq.intValue() + 1)));
}
System.out.println(m.size() + " distinct words
detected:");
System.out.println(m);
} }
Example: Map 2
for (Iterator i = m.keySet().iterator() ;
i.hasNext() ; )
System.out.println(i.next());
for (Iterator i = m.values().iterator();

i.hasNext() ; )
System.out.println(i.next());
for (Iterator i = m.entrySet().iterator();

i.hasNext() ; ) {
Map.Entry e = (Map.Entry)i.next();
System.out.println(e.getKey() + ": " +
e.getValue());
}
SortedSet Interface
1) A Set that maintains its elements in ascending order
a) according to elements' natural order
b) according to a Comparator provided at SortedSet creation
time
2) Set operations
a) Iterator traverses the sorted set in order
3) Additional operations
a) Range view – range operations
b) Endpoints – return the first or last element
c) Comparator access
4) Location: java.util.SortedSet
SortedMap Interface
1) A Map that maintains its entries in ascending order
a) According to keys' natural order
b) According to a Comparator provided at creation time.
2) Map operations
a) Iterator traverses elements in any of the sorted map's
collection-views in key-order.
3) Additional Operations
a) Range view
b) End points
c) Comparator access
4) Location: java.util.SortedMap
Implementations
1) Implementations are the actual data objects used to store elements
a) Implement the core collection interfaces
2) There are three kinds of implementations
a) General purpose implementations
b) Wrapper implementations
c) Convenience implementations
General Purpose Implementations
Implementations
Resizeable Balanced
Hash Table Linked List
Array Tree
Set HashSet TreeSet

Interfaces
List ArrayList LinkedList
Map HashMap TreeMap

Older Implementations
1) The collections framework was introduced in JDK1.2.
2) Earlier JDK versions included collection implementations that were not
part of any framework
a) java.util.Vector
b) java.util.Hashtable
3) These implementations were extended to implement the core interfaces
but still have all their legacy operations
a) Be careful to always manipulate them only through the core
interfaces.
Algorithms 1
Algorithms are pieces of reusable functionality provided by the JDK.
All of them come from the Collections class.
All take the form of static methods whose first argument is the collection
on which the operation is to be performed.
The great majority of the algorithms provided by the Java platform

operate on List objects,
A couple of them (min and max) operate on arbitrary Collection

objects.
Algorithms 2
The algorithms are described below:
1)Sorting
a) reorders a List so that its elements are ascending order
according to some ordering relation.
b) The important things to know about this algorithm are that it is:
• Fast: This algorithm is guaranteed to run in n log(n) time,
and runs substantially faster on nearly sorted lists.
• Stable: That is to say, it doesn't reorder equal elements.
2) Shuffling
a) does the opposite of what sort does - it destroys any trace of order
that may have been present in a List.
Algorithms 3
3) Routine Data Manipulation
a) The Collections class provides three algorithms for doing
routine data manipulation on List objects: Reverse, Fill and
Copy
4) Searching
a) The binarySearch algorithm searches for a specified element in
a sorted List using the binary search algorithm.
5) Finding Extreme Values

a) The min and max algorithms return, respectively, the minimum
and maximum element contained in a specified Collection.
Exercise: Object Collection
1) Write a class that stores an object of Building, HighBuilding, and
Skyscraper into a Map (either a HashMap or TreeMap)
2) Store each of these elements into an ArrayList.
3) Create another class that takes a variable ArrayList as a parameter.
4) Call a method on the class to Iterate through the ArrayList and call
enter method of each object. Direct your output to the console.
5) Write a program to count the number of different words occurring in a
text. Whenever we inspect the next word in the text we need to know if it
has already occurred or not, so we need to store the words that have
already occurred in some data structure in our program.
For this program we need a data structure that stores the words we have
already encountered in the text in order to look following words up and
decide whether to count one more different word or not.
Test your program with the text of exercise 5. Print out the content of the
data structure.
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
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d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
Overview
1) A Quick Start Guide
2) Swing Features and Concepts
3) Summary
Overview
3) Summary
A Quick Start Guide
1) Overview of Swing API 6. Layout Management
2) First Swing Application
3) Swing Application (SA)
a) Look and Feel
b) Setting up Button, Label
c) Handling Events
d) Border and Component
4) CelsiusConverter
a) Adding HTML
b) Adding an Icon
5) LunarPhases
a) Compound Border
b) Combo Boxes
c) Multiple Images
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public class SwingApplication {
private static String labelPrefix = "Number of
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private int numClicks = 0;
public Component createComponents() {
final JLabel label = new JLabel(labelPrefix +
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JTextField tempCelsius;
JLabel celsiusLabel, fahrenheitLabel;
JButton convertTemp;
public CelsiusConverter() {
converterFrame = new JFrame("Convert Celsius to
Fahrenheit");
converterPanel = new JPanel();
converterPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 2));
addWidgets();
converterFrame.getContentPane().add(
converterPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
converterFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.
EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
converterFrame.pack();
converterFrame.setVisible(true);
}
private void addWidgets() {
tempCelsius = new JTextField(2);
celsiusLabel = new JLabel("Celsius",
SwingConstants.LEFT);
convertTemp = new JButton("Convert...");
fahrenheitLabel = new JLabel("Fahrenheit",
SwingConstants.LEFT);
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}
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addAButton("Long-Named Button 4", pane);
addAButton("5", pane);
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contentPane.add(new JButton("5"));
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pane.add(new JButton("Button 1"));

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pane.add(new JButton("5"));
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button = new JButton("Button 1");

c.weightx = 0.5;
c.gridx = 0;
c.gridy = 0;
pane.add(button, c);
Exanmple: GrigBagLayout 2
c.gridx = 1;
c.gridy = 0;
c.gridx = 2;
c.gridy = 0;
button = new JButton("Long-Named Button 4");
c.ipady = 40; //make this component tall
c.weightx = 0.0;
c.gridwidth = 3;
c.gridx = 0;
c.gridy = 1;
Exanmple: GrigBagLayout 3
button = new JButton("5");
c.ipady = 0; //reset to default
c.weighty = 1.0; //request any extra vertical space
c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.PAGE_END; //bottom of
space
c.insets = new Insets(10,0,0,0); //top padding
c.gridx = 1; //aligned with button 2
c.gridwidth = 2; //2 columns wide
c.gridy = 2; //third row
Overview
3) Summary
Swing Features and Concepts
1) Components and the Containment Hierarchy
2) Event Handling
Components 1
1) SwingApplication.java creates four
commonly used Swing components
a) a frame, or main window (JFrame)

b) a panel, sometimes called a pane
(JPanel)
c) a button (JButton)
d) a label (JLabel)
2) The frame is a top-level container
a) exists mainly to provide a place for

other Swing components to paint
themselves
b) The other commonly used top-level
containers are dialogs (JDialog) and
applets (JApplet).
Components 2
1) The panel is an intermediate container
a) Its only purpose is to simplify the positioning of the button and
label
b) Other intermediate Swing containers, such as scroll panes
(JScrollPane) and tabbed panes (JTabbedPane), typically
play a more visible, interactive role in a program's GUI.
2) The button and label are atomic components

a) self-sufficient entities that present bits of information to the
user
b) atomic components also get input from the user
1) Combo boxes (JComboBox)
2) Text fields (JTextField)
3) Tables (JTable)
Components 3
Swing Components are divided into the following categories
1) Top-level Containers
2) General Purpose Containers
3) Special Purpose Containers
4) Basic Controls
5) Uneditable Information Display
6) Interactive Display of Highly Formatted Information (IDHFI)
Top-Level Containers
The components at the top of any Swing containment hierarchy
General Purpose Containers
Intermediate containers that can be used under many different
circumstances.
Special Purpose Container
Intermediate containers that play specific roles in the UI.
Basic Controls
Atomic components that exist primarily to get input from the user;
they generally also show simple state.
Uneditable Information Display
Atomic components that exist solely to give the user information.
Interactive Displays
Atomic components that display highly formatted information that (if
you choose) can be modified by the user.
Containment Hierarchy 1
1) The diagram shows the containment
hierarchy for the window shown by
SwingApplication.
2) The root of the containment hierarchy is

always a top-level container.
3) The top-level container provides a place

for its descendent Swing components to
paint themselves.
1) Every top-level container indirectly contains an intermediate
container known as a content pane.
2) the content pane contains, directly or indirectly, all of the visible

components in the window's GUI.
3) The big exception to the rule is that if the top-level container has a
menu bar, then by convention the menu bar goes in a special place
outside of the content pane.
Here is the code that adds the button and label to the panel, and the panel
to the content pane
frame = new JFrame(...);

button = new JButton(...);
label = new JLabel(...);
pane = new JPanel();
pane.add(button);
pane.add(label);
frame.getContentPane().add(pane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
Basic Swing Container Architecture
Architectural Underpinnings
1) A JRootPane object is made up of
a) a glassPane,
b) a contentPane, and
c) an optional menu bar
2) the layeredPane, contentPane, and

glassPane shown in this
diagram always exist
3) What happens when you invoke

getContentPane() method of a top-
level container?
1) Take for example a JFrame.
2) JFrame delegates the operation to it’s container. But how?
3) Consider the inheritance and implementation hierarchy

public interface RootPaneContainer
Implementation of getContentPane method
public Container getContentPane(){

return getRootPane().getContentPane();
}
JRootPane objects, in turn, delegates its getContentPane() methods

to their JLayeredPane instances.
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Course Outline
d) arrays e) access
b) applets
c) input/output
h) multi-threading
d) networking
6) summary
What is an Applet?
1) Program embedded in another application, generally a Web browser that provides
a JVM.
a) An applet’s host program provides an applet context in which the applet
executes.
b) Launched from an HTML document with an APPLET tag that specifies the URL
for the applet
2) A class that extends Applet or a descendant of the Applet class
a) javax.swing.JApplet extends Applet
The Hierarchy
1) An applet is an object whose class
descends ultimately from Applet or
JApplet.
2) An applet is an embeddable Panel, which
is a simple Container window.
3) An applet’s class must be public.
4) An applet typically overrides the inherited
init, start, paint, stop, and
destroy methods.
What does an applet do?
1) An applet can react to major events in the following ways:
a) It can initialize itself
• init() method called when an applet is first loaded
b) It can start running
• start() method called when browser receives focus
c) It can stop running.
• stop() method called when the browser minimized or user leaves
page
d) It can perform a final cleanup, in preparation for being unloaded.
• destroy() method called when browser closed
What to override?
1) If you don’t override one of the following methods, your applet will not do
anything!
a) init()
• Called once. Place “constructor code” here.
b) start()
• Usually performs applet’s work. Called many times.
c) paint(Graphics g)
• Can override to simply draw oneself
d) stop()
• Should stop execution of applet (ie: pause a timer thread)
e) destroy()
• Performs cleanup of resources (ie: release DB connection)
Where to put stuff
1) Where the applet class file must be, relative to the HTML document that
contains the <APPLET> tag.
Applet Lifecycle 1
1) When a Java-enabled browser encounters an <APPLET> tag…
a) it reserves a display area of the specified width and height for the applet
b) loads the bytecode for the specified Applet subclass,
c) creates an instance of the subclass
d) invokes the init method to enable once-only initialization (e.g., setting colors,
fonts, and the like)
Applet Lifecycle 2
a) invokes the start method.
• If the applet is multithreaded, other threads can be constructed
and started in this method.
• This results in the paint method being called If the page that
launched the applet is exited, the browser typically invokes the
stop method, which then can perform appropriate cleanup
operations.
b) If the launching page is entered again, the browser again invokes
start.
c) destroy method
• Ends the lifecycle when the browser window is closed
JApplet Methods
JApplet Methods
Applet Methods to Override
1) No main method
2) Methods init, start, and paint guaranteed to be invoked in sequence
3) To develop an applet
a) Override any/all of the methods above
b) Override stop and destroy to stop threads or free resources (eg: close
database connections)
Init and Paint Methods
1) init Method
a) Initializes variables
b) Gets data from user
c) Places various GUI components
2) paint Method
a) Performs output
Skeleton of a Java Applet
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
public class WelcomeApplet extends JApplet

{
}
Displaying Welcome Message
//Welcome Applet
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
public class WelcomeApplet extends JApplet {
public void paint(Graphics g) {

super.paint(g); // <-- make sure you always call this!
g.drawString(“Welcome to Java Programming”,30, 30);
}
}
HTML to Run Applet
<html>
<head>
<title>This title shows at the top of the browser
window</title>
</head>
<body>
<applet code=“WelcomeApplet” height=“100” width=“400”/>
</body>
</html>
class Font
1) Shows text in different fonts
2) Contained in package java.awt
3) Available fonts
a) Serif/SanSerif
b) Monospaced
c) Dialog/DialogInput
4) Arguments for constructor
a) String specifying the Font face name
b) int value specifying Font style
c) int value specifying Font size
• Expressed in points (72 points = 1 inch)
Methods of the class Font
class Color
1) Shows text in different colors
2) Changes background color of component
3) Contained in package java.awt
Constructors of the class Color
Methods of the class Color
Methods of the class Color
Color Constants
class Graphics
1) Provides methods for drawing items such as lines, ovals, and rectangles
on the screen
2) Contains methods to set the properties of graphic elements including
clipping area, fonts, and colors
3) Contained in the package java.awt
Graphics class
Graphics class
Graphics class
Graphics class
GUI Components and Applets
1) Applets inherit from Panel
2) Can add UI components
3) Call setLayout(LayoutManager lm) to change to a different layout
a) Default is BorderLayout
4) Place all adding of UI components in init() method
a) No longer need to override paint() as UI components will
automatically update themselves
b) Call validate() when done adding components
GUI Application vs. Applet
1) Applications extend JFrame 1) Applets extend JApplet
2) GUI components setup in
constructor 2) GUI components setup in init()
3) Things start in main method method
3) No main method, browser creates
4) Typically call setTitle, setSize, instance automatically
pack, setVisible, 4) Not called in applet, as it doesn’t
setDefaultCloseOperation
have it’s own window
System.out.print and Applets
1) When you use System.out to print text, it does not show up in an applet
2) Treated as debugging information
3) Most browsers have a way to view the output
a) IE has a Java console under “Tools” “Sun Java Console”
Applets and Security
1) Tight security called sandbox security
2) Every browser implements security policies to keep applets from
compromising system security.
3) The implementation of the security policies differs from browser to
browser.
4) Security policies are subject to change.
a) For example, if a browser is developed for use only in trusted
environments, then its security policies will likely be much more lax
than those described here.
Sandbox Security?
1) In general, applets loaded over the net are prevented from:
a) Reading and writing files on the client file system
b) Making network connections
• Except to the originating host
c) Starting other programs on the client
d) Loading libraries
e) Define native method calls
• If an applet could define native method calls, that would give the applet
direct access to the underlying computer.
The SecurityManager
1) Each browser has a SecurityManager object that implements its security
policies.
2) When a SecurityManager detects a violation, it throws a
SecurityException.
3) Your applet can catch this SecurityException and react appropriately.
What can applets do?
1) Make network connections to the host they came from.
2) Cause HTML documents to be displayed.
3) Invoke public methods of other applets on the same page.
4) (if loaded from the local file system, i.e. from a directory in the user's
), and Applet does not have the restrictions that applets loaded
over the network do
5) Play audio clips

Fundamental Concept For Java Programming

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Course Outline

1) introduction 3) object-orientation 4) horizontal libraries

Horizontal APIs are used across the language.

Presentation of selected horizontal APIs:

Presentation of selected vertical APIs:

1) graphical user interface

How this course provides a foundation for the remaining courses:

1) to adapt to changing environments and uses

The development of Java was driven by both in equal measures.

Many Java features are inherited from the earlier languages:

Before C, there was no language to reconcile: ease-of-use versus power,

C- structured, efficient, high-level language that could replace assembly

Designed, implemented and tested by programmers, not scientists.

Response to the increased complexity of programs and respective

C++ extends C by adding object-oriented features.

The original motivation is not Internet: platform-independent software

Java as an “Internet version of C++”? No.

Java Technology consists of:

• write the Java program

Compilation happens once.

Interpretation occurs each time the program is executed.

1) a large collection of ready-made software components that provide

1) desktop applications - Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE)

Each edition puts together a large collections of packages offering

The Java Virtual Machine remains essentially the same.

In the command line, type:

3) running the compiled program Java interpreter (java) installed takes

main is the method with one parameter args and no results:

public static void main(String[] args) {

println is a method in the standard System class:

System.out.println(“First Java program.");

Steps to carry out:

To test the environment, open the command window and run:

The current version number of the installed JVM should appear.

However, for presentation reasons explain it in two parts:

Each of them will be described in order.

A program could be written like this:

It could be also written like this:

Seven identifiers in this program:

2) Documentation comment (javadoc tool uses this kind of comment to

3) Ignore all text from // to the end of the line:

; semicolon terminating statements, chain statements inside the “for”

. period separate package names from subpackages and classes,

abstract continue goto package synchronize

5) Identify the literals, separators and identifiers in the progam below.

6) What's the difference between a brace {} and a bracket ()?

1) byte – 8-bit integer type

Range: -128 to 127.

Usage: particularly when working with data streams.

Range: -32768 to 32767.

Usage: probably the least used simple type.

Range: -2147483648 to 2147483647.

Range: -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.

Range: 1.4e-045 to 3.4e+038.

Range: 4.9e-324 to 1.8e+308.

The form of a literal depends on its type:

Integer literals are of type int by default.

Floating-point literals are of type double by default.

Those values do not convert to any numerical representation.

1) true is not equal to 1

String literals are character-sequences enclosed in double quotes.

To allocate memory space for a variable JVM requires:

All done as part of variable declaration.

type identifier [=value][, identifier [=value] …];

final double PI = 3.14;

Examples: identifier, userName, _sys_var1, $change

The code of Java programs is written in Unicode, rather than ASCII, so

1) variable names begin with a lowercase letter

The underscore character is used only to separate words in constants, as

Initialization can be static or dynamic:

1) static initialize with a literal:

2) dynamic initialize with an expression composed of any literals,

The types of the expression and variable must be the same.

In Java, scope is defined separately for classes and methods:

1) variables defined by a class have a 1global2 scope

We consider the scope of method variables only; class variables will be