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Intermediate Java

This course will present you with some advanced concepts in Java.

From string manipulation using regular expressions, through threading to exception handling, among others.

We will look at these concepts and give you examples and with excercises give you a good start to begin using these techniques.

Target audience

Developers with a couple of years' experience of Java, who want to delve deeper into the language.

You should have taken *Beginning Java*, or have corresponding knowledge.

What you will learn

Java recap
- We repeat the basics of the Java language
Generics
- We take a closer look at generics in Java
- Generic classes
- Generic methods
String Manipulation
- We take a look at advanced string manipulation
- The String classes
- Localization

Boxing/Unboxing, Enums och Nested Classes
- We take a look at these basic concepts of Java
Regular Expressions
- We take a look at the RegEx language and how it is used in Java
Exceptions
- How to use exception handling
- Best practices
XML
- What is XML
- Parsing XML
- Manipulating XML using DOM

Threads
- We explain the concept of Threads
- The Thread pool
- Concurrency
- Synchronization
Annotations
- The basics of annotations
- Creating annotations
- Reflection
Lambda expressions (Java 8)
- From method to lambda
- The lambda syntax
- Functional interfaces

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