Java fundamentals with Maven Training Course

Getting Started

• The Java Technology Phenomenon
• How to write basic "hello world" application
• How to compile and execute Java code
• How to make the code a bit more complex

Introducing Apache Maven

• Convention over Configuration
• Maven Plugins
• Conceptual Model of a Project

Installing and Running Maven

• Downloading and Installing Maven
• Testing a Maven Installation
• Getting Help with Maven

A Simple Maven Project

• Creating a Simple Project
• Building a Simple Project
• Simple Project Object Model

Java Syntax

• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Variables, arrays, data types, operators, and control flow
• What are reference variables
• Classes and objects
• What inheritance is and how it works
• What Interfaces are, why they are written and how
• How to use Java String and Number objects and how to format data for output
• What packages are for and why we must use import directive

Java Objects

• Java classes overview
• Java class life cycle
• Class modifiers and inheritance
• Overloading" and overriding
• Class constructors
• Polymorphism
• Relationships: IS and HAS
• 'static' keyword
• When to use static members
• Using objects within an application deployed with Maven

Customizing a Maven Project

• Customize Project Information
• Add New Dependencies
• Add Resources
• Building a Packaged Command-Line Application

Optimizing and Refactoring Maven POMs

• POM Cleanup
• Optimizing Dependencies
• Optimizing Plugins
• Final POMs

Java Collections

• Collection interface
• Lists, maps and sets
• Collections and arrays
• Concurrency
• Manage collections with an application deployed with Maven

Java Memory

• Garbage collector
• Heap and stack
• Object life cycle
• 'finalize()' method

Java Exceptions

• The general idea of Java Exceptions
• Runtime and 'real' exceptions
• Throwing an exception
• 'try...catch' statements
• 'throws' declaration
• Designing your own exceptions
• Test and manage exceptions with an application deployed with Maven

A multimodule project with Maven

• Building the Multimodule project
• Running the Multimodule application

Java Concurrency

• Threads and concurrency
• Threaded tasks
• Joining threads
• Class variables visibility
• Build and run a multithread application with Maven