IS 313 Review

Arrays

• Declaring an array
• Initializing an array
• Searching through an array
• Storing and retrieving objects an array

Collection classes

Kinds of collections

• Set (implemented with HashSet)
• List (implemented with ArrayList and LinkedList)
• Map (implemented with HashMap)

What you should know

• Basic operations of each (e.g. get, add, put, contains)
• How each are used
• Properties of each collection (e.g. ordered?, duplicates?, associations?)
• How to use an iterator
• Taking a collection of objects and storing them in an array
• Reading data from a file and storing it in one of the collections

Database access

• Accessing elements from a result set
• Properties of a scrollable result set
• Properties of an updatable result set
• Getting the meta-data of a table

Graphical User Interfaces

• Swing components versus AWT components
• Implementing and associating an event listener (e.g. ActionListener) with a graphical component
• Adding components to a JFrame object
• Extending the JFrame class to create an interface
• Basic swing components (e.g. JButton, JTextField, JLabel, JComboBox)
• Layout managers and how to use them
  • FlowLayout
  • GridLayout
  • BorderLayout
  • BoxLayout

Threads

• Uses of threads (e.g. multi-threaded servers, user interaction)
• Starting threads by extending the thread class
• Starting threads using the Runnable interface
• Using the synchronized statement to prevent different threads from accessing the same memory at the same time

Network programming

General terminology (see Kalin section 9.1)

• Client and server
• Hostname, IP address and Domain Name Server (DNS)
• Port number
• TCP/IP layers
  • Application layer
  • Transport layer
  • Internet layer
  • Network access layer

Client/server technologies

• Socket programming
  • socket classes for client and server
  • Using classes and methods to read and write bewteen client and server
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
  • When RMI can be used
  • How the RMI registry, the server and the client interact
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
  • When CORBA can be used
  • Properties of CORBA (location and language transparency)
  • Role of Interface Definition Language (IDL)
  • How the ORB, server and client interact