Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Creating and Destroying Objects
• Chapter 3: Methods Common to All Objects
• Chapter 4: Classes and Interfaces
• Chapter 5: Generics
• Chapter 6: Enums and Annotations
• Chapter 7: Lambdas and Streams
• Chapter 8: Methods
• Chapter 9: General Programming
• Chapter 10: Exceptions
• Chapter 11: Concurrency
• Chapter 12: Serialization
• References
• Index

About the Author

Joshua Bloch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was formerly the chief Java architect at Google, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a senior systems designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in computer science from Columbia University.