Java Programming with J2SE 5: Generics and Annotations

Course details

To explain what metadata is and how it can be used to provide annotation source to third-party tools and to outline J2SE 1.5 tool changes

• Introducing generics
• identify the advantages and disadvantages of using generics in code, and outline how generics are used to make raw code type safe.
• Using generics
• specify the generic, type safe version of a given piece of legacy code.
• Building a simple generic class
• specify the code involved in building a generic class for a given scenario.
• Implementing generic class hierarchies
• specify the code required to declare a generic subclass, test generic object types, and cast a generic object.
• Developing applications using generics
• convert a given application's legacy code into a generic type safe equivalent.
• Introducing annotations
• associate Java's retention policies and built-in annotations with their corresponding features and functionality.
• Using Java's standard annotations
• specify the code to annotate an overriding method, a deprecated method, and to suppress compiler warnings.
• Declaring custom and meta-annotations
• specify the code to declare custom and meta-annotations.
• Implementing custom annotations
• specify the code to inspect and represent a custom annotation, write an annotation processor, and run the processor against a set of annotations.
• Developing custom annotations
• create and implement a custom annotation for a given scenario.