Computer Laboratory – Course material 2009

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Further Java

Lecturers: Dr A.R. Beresford and Dr A.C. Rice

No. of practical classes: 5 $\times$ 2-hour sessions

Prerequisite course: Programming in Java

Aims

The goal of this course is to provide students with the ability to understand the advanced programming features available in the Java programming language, completing the coverage of the language started in the Programming in Java course.

Practicals

Generic classes and communication via TCP/UDP.
Reflection and serialisation.
Class loaders.
Threads and synchronisation.
Transactions and weak references.

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

understand different mechanisms for communication between applications and evaluate their trade-offs in different scenarios;
understand how Java Generics improve software usability and readability;
be able to write a custom class loader;
understand the need for and implementation of concurrency control;
understand the concept of transactions and their application in a range of systems.

Recommended reading

* Lea, D. (1999). Concurrent programming in Java. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Bracha, G., Gosling, J., Joy, B. & Steele, G. (2000). The Java language specification. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/
Bacon, J. & Harris, T. (2003). Operating systems or Bacon, J. (1997) Concurrent systems (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley.

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