In this course:

• the participant will deepen his knowledge of the Java programming language to build well structured applications
• we will focus on topics like String handling and formatting, i18n, NIO2, functional programming, logging, testing, generics and multithreading

• Advanced Functional Programming
  • predefined functional interfaces
  • advanced stream topics
  • use of Optional
• Comparing objects
  • equals() and hashCode()
• Collections and Generics
  • collections and functional programming
  • custom generic classes and methods
• Working with Strings
  • String vs. StringBuilder
  • formatting
  • tokenizing
• Date/Time and I18N
  • Java SE8 DateTime API
  • Date and Number formatting
  • Localization and I18N
• Advanced I/O Topics
  • Files and Paths
  • I/O enhancements in Java SE8 for reading/writing files
  • File manipulation: file attributes - moving and copying files - directory walking and searching
• Multithreading and Concurrency
  • creating threads
  • thread interaction
  • Executors and ThreadPools
  • concurrent collections
  • parallel streams
• Logging and Testing basics
  • log4j2
  • JUnit testing

Classroom instruction and demonstrations. A lot of time is spent on exercises.

Delivered as a live, interactive training: available in-person or online, or in a hybrid format. Training can be implemented in English, Dutch, or French.

Participants should be familiar (at least 3 months of practice) with the basic Java SE environment (see course Java programming).

Developers who are going to use Java to build well structured applications on a Java SE platform.