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JAVA

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BEGINNERS TO ADVANCE

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 Java language Syntax
 “Hello World” program example
 Compiling, Running and Debugging Java code
 Inheritance
 Threading
 Synchronization

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 Some buzzwords for Java
 “Write Once, Run Anywhere”
 Simple
 Object oriented
 Distributed
 Multithreaded
 Dynamic
 Architecture neutral
 Portable
 High performance
 Robust
 Secure
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 Everything is in a class
 One file, one public class
 In the runnable public class:
 public static void main(String [] args)
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 Primitive Data Types: byte, short, int, long, float, double,
boolean, char
 Arrays are also a class
long [] a = new long[5];
 You can get the length by visiting the length field of array object a,
like this: a.length
 String class is very commonly used to represents character

strings, for example
String s1 = “Hello ”, s2 = “Wolrd!”;
String s3 = s1 + s2;
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 ++,-- Auto increment/decrement
 +,- Unary plus/minus
 *,/ Multiplication/division
 % Modulus
 +,- Addition/subtraction
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int n = 1;
char ch = ‘A’;
String s = “Hello”;
Long L = new Long(100000);
boolean done = false;
final double pi = 3.14159265358979323846;
Employee joe = new Employee();
char [] a = new char[3];
Vector v = new Vector();
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 Java has no:
 pointers
 typedef
 preprocessor
 struct
 unions
 multiple inheritance
 goto
 operator overloading
 malloc
 …
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 package
 Class name
 Constructor
 Fields
 methods
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.java => .class => JVM execution
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 Downloading Java Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle
 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is usually included in the JDK
installation file.
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 Setting JAVA_HOME (Windows):
 E.g., C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45
 Setting path and classpath
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Eclipse Download from here.
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 Debugging means “run a program interactively while watching
the source code and the variables during the execution.” [5]
 Set breakpoints to stop the program at the middle of execution
 Eclipse has a Debug Mode
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Table courtesy: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseDebugging/article.html 19
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 Java classes can be derived from other
classes, thereby inheriting fields and
methods from those classes.
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http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/ArrayList.html
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 A thread is a thread of execution in a program [6]
 JVM allows an application to have multiple threads
running concurrently.
 Apache Harmony example:
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http://harmony.apache.org/subcomponents/drlvm/TM.html
1. Extends Thread
class
2. Implements
Runnable
interface
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html 28
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 Using Thread.interrupt() method:
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7786305/stopping-a-specific-java-thread
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 Increment operation is translated
to multiple steps by the virtual
machine :
1. Retrieve the current value
of c.
2. Increment the retrieved
value by 1.
3. Store the incremented value
back in c.
Example from: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/interfere.html 32

 Assume we have 2 threads, A and B.
 A increments c, and B decrements c.
 Thread A and B runs together.
 One possible order of the low-level steps:
1. Thread A: Retrieve c.
2. Thread B: Retrieve c.
3. Thread A: Increment retrieved value; result is 1.
4. Thread B: Decrement retrieved value; result is -1.
5. Thread A: Store result in c; c is now 1.
6. Thread B: Store result in c; c is now -1.
 Is the result correct?
 What if the thread A and B are bank transactions?
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 Threads are visiting one field (resource) at the same time.
 Multiple steps of an operation
 No enforced “happen-before” relationship
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Example: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/syncmeth.html
 Enforce the ‘happen-before’ relationship in the method level.
 Either one of the below instance will happen. But result is always 0,
which is correct.
1. Thread A: Retrieve c. 1. Thread B: Retrieve c.

2. Thread A: Increment retrieved value; 2. Thread B: Decrement retrieved value;
result is 1. result is -1.
3. Thread A: Store result in c; c is now 1. 3. Thread B: Store result in c; c is now -
4. Thread B: Retrieve c. OR 1.
5. Thread B: Decrement retrieved value; 4. Thread A: Retrieve c.
result is 0. 5. Thread A: Increment retrieved value;
6. Thread B: Store result in c; c is now 0. result is 0.
6. Thread A: Store result in c; c is now 0.
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 Every object has an intrinsic lock associated with it
 Primitive types (e.g., int, char) do not have intrinsic locks.
 We can combine object intrinsic locks and synchronized
keyword to create fine-grained synchronization control.
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http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/locksync.html
 Boolean has only two instances of Boolean
 If another thread also synchronizes on the same Boolean
instance, like this:
 private final Boolean someLock = Boolean.FALSE;
 The lock will be reused.

 The system might be deadlock or unresponsive.
 It is hard to detect this type of bugs!
More examples:
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/java/LCK01-J.+Do+not+synchronize+on+objects+that+may+be+
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 Another example of the wrong way of using locks:
What will happen another thread also synchronizes on an integer

instance with the 0 integer value?
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 Correct way of using locks: using new to instantiate an object
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1. Thinking in Java 4th Ed, Bruce Eckel
2. Oracle Java tutorial
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html)
3. www.cs.drexel.edu/~spiros/teaching/CS575/slides/java.pp
t
4. http://eclipsetutorial.sourceforge.net/Total_Beginner_Comp
anion_Document.pdf
5. http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseDebugging/article
.html
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 String class is very commonly used to represents character

 Setting path and classpath

Example from: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/interfere.html 32

1. Thread A: Retrieve c. 1. Thread B: Retrieve c.

 The lock will be reused.

What will happen another thread also synchronizes on an integer

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