Java Programming for C# Developers

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Course Description

This Java Programming for C# Developers training course helps C# developers get up to speed quickly with the Java programming language and the Java Standard Edition (SE) 7 development platform. The course focuses on the differences between the C# and Java languages, and also explains how the .NET Framework library maps to the Java SDK.

What you Will learn

•     Understanding core differences between Java and C++
•     Defining and using classes
•     Using arrays, collections, and generics
•     Implementing inheritance and polymorphism
•     Working with exceptions
•     Multithreading
•     Using common Java APIs and techniques

Course Outline

Getting Started with Java

•     Compiling and running Java applications
•     JVM options
•     JAR files vs. .NET assemblies
•     Understanding Ant and Maven
•     Where to get more information about Java in online communities
•     Common open-source libraries

Core Language Differences between C# and Java

•     Primitive types in Java vs. struct types in C#
•     Packages vs namespaces
•     Miscellaneous language differences

Defining and Using Classes

•     Classes in Java
•     Differences in how to declare data members and member functions
•     Differences in initialization and construction
•     Parameter passing modes in Java vs. C#

Arrays

•     Declaring and using arrays
•     Traversing arrays
•     Using the Arrays class
•     Multi-dimensional arrays

Inheritance and Interfaces

•     Things you can do in C# that you can’t do in Java
•     Things you can do in Java that you can’t do in C#
•     Miscellaneous language differences

Collections and Generics

•     Overview of collections and generics
•     Using Java collection classes vs. .NET collection classes
•     Defining generic classes and generic methods vs. C# generics
•     Java generic specifiers

Exceptions and Assertions

•     Overview of exception handling
•     Throwing and catching exceptions
•     Standard exception classes
•     Defining new exception classes
•     Working with assertions

Going Further with the Java Language

•     Autoboxing and unboxing
•     Varargs
•     Type-safe enumerations
•     Static imports

Inner Classes

•     Overview of inner classes
•     Regular inner classes
•     Method-local inner classes
•     Anonymous inner classes vs. C# delegates
•     Static nested classes

Multithreading

•     Creating multiple threads
•     Synchronizing threads
•     Synchronization classes
•     Concurrency API

Additional Multithreading Issues

•     Using concurrent collections
•     Using synchronizers and locks
•     Thread pooling techniques
•     Using the executor framework
•     Using pooling effectively

Common Java APIs

•     Reading and writing files
•     Accessing databases using JDBC
•     Calling Web Service

Reflection

•     Dynamic retrieval of information using reflection
•     Creating instances of extensibility objects
•     Class fields, methods and constructors

Tuning Garbage Collection

•     Essential concepts
•     Understanding object lifetimes
•     Generational collectors
•     Heap organization
•     Garbage collection options
•     Garbage collection monitoring and tuning

Learning Path

There are a number of options. Please Contact Us for further details.

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, check our schedule
• Private onsite Team training also available