Brief Contents Foreword Preface List of Projects Discussed in Detail in This Book Acknowledgements Part 1: Foundations of object orientation Objects and classes Understanding class definitions Object interaction Grouping objects Functional Processing of Collections (Advanced) More-sophisticated behavior Fixed-size collections – arrays Designing classes Well-behaved objects Part 2: Application structures Improving structure with inheritance More about inheritance Further abstraction techniques Building graphical user interfaces Handling errors Designing applications A case study Appendices Working with a BlueJ project Java data types Operators Java control structures Running Java without BlueJ Using the debugger Unit unit-testing tools Teamwork tools Javadoc Program style guide Important library classes Index