Java 5 Tiger

Java's 1.5 Tiger incorporates several significant changes to the java language that is intended to make programming clearer and safer. The Java 5 Tiger course will introduce all the new language constructs, including the generics and annotations. This course is for Java Programmers who want to come up to speed on new Java 5 Tiger features.

• Java programming knowledge

• Duration: 24 hours

• Span for Weekdays: 2 weeks

Introduction

• Java 5 Tiger Overview

Variable-length Argument Lists

• How it works

• Creation of variable argument Lists

• Iteration of variable argument Lists

Autoboxing

• Primitives to Wrapper Types

• Wrapper Types to Primitives

• Method Overload Resolution

Foreach

• Ditching Iterators

• Iterating over Arrays

• Iterating over Collections

• Making Your Classes Work with for/in

Enum

• Enumerated Types

• Using Enumerated Types

• Adding methods

• Switching on enums

Static Imports

• Using Static imports

• Importing Enumerated Type Values

• When to avoid

Generics

• Using Generics

• Defining simple generics

• Using wild-cards

• Extending generics

Meta-data (Annotations)

• Using Standard Annotation types

• Defining annotation classes

• Accessing annotations via the introspection APIs