Core Java Tutorial

Termed as simple, secure, object oriented, platform independent and portable Java Programming language was developed by James Gosling. It is an extremely popular programming language, useful for software programmers.

Core Java Tutorial

Learn Java Programming Language with our complete and interesting Core Java Tutorial. Covering all the basic concept of Core Java, this tutorial covers practical examples and programs on Core Java Programming.

Who is this Core Java Tutorial designed for?

This tutorial is designed for the beginners in Java Programming Language. All freshers, BCA, BE, BTech, MCA and college students will be benefitted by the Java Programming concepts taught in this tutorial. They can use it for developing notes, exam preparation, lab exercises, assignments and viva questions.

What do I need to know to begin with?

A basic knowledge of C will be very helpful to get understand the concepts of Core Java quickly.

Core Java syllabus covered in this tutorial

This tutorial covers:

Core Java Introduction, Classes & Objects, Wrapper class, Packages & Interfaces, Inheritance & Access Modifiers, Abstraction & Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Exception , Handling, Multithreading in Java, Strings, Java Annotations, Collection Framework, Java Input/output Stream, Generic in Java, Serialization in Java, Networking in Java, AWT and Swing, Applet Programming in Java.

This covers almost everything you need to know in Core Java Programming. So, let begin learning!

Introduction

  • Java is a pure object oriented programming language.
  • It was developed by ‘James Gosling’ at Sun Microsystems.
  • First version of Java was released in 1995.
  • Java provides the functionality of ‘write once, run anywhere’ (WORA).
  • The latest released version of Java standard edition is 1.8.

Functionalities of Java

Java provides important functionalities like:
  • Java provides a huge library.
  • Auto memory cleanup process i.e. automatic garbage collection.
  • Platform independent means it is portable on every operating system.
  • Code reusability which allows us to use the previous methods in next class.

Features of Java

Simple: Java is simple to understand because it eliminates lot of confusing properties like pointer, operator overloading, header files, goto statement etc.

Portable: When we compile Java code it generates byte-code that can be run on any operating system.

Object-Oriented: Java is a pure object-oriented programming language. It is totally based on object and class. It follows all basic concepts of  OOP e.g. inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation and polymorphism.

Secure: Java doesn’t support pointer, so without authorization we cannot access memory location. It also uses some cryptography for data security. JVM provides a virtual machine for running the Java programs.

Platform independent: It is one of the most important features of Java as it follows ‘write once and run anywhere’ function. After compilation Java code gets converted into byte-code and this code can run on any operating system.

Multithreaded: Java is a multithreaded programming language because it allows multiple tasks to be performed simultaneously to share the same memory.

Robust: Java uses strong memory management which is handled by automatic garbage collection. Exception handling provides the code checking mechanism.

High Performance: JIT compiler which interprets the Java code into byte-code will increase the performance of java.

Distributed: Java is basically designed for internet to have the distributed nature.

Dynamic: Java can carry lots of information on run time as it provides a link on different classes and objects dynamically.

Interpreted: Java compiler accepts the source code, converts it into byte-code and in second stage it converts into machine code with the help of interpreter.

JDCB RowSet: For sending the tabular format between remote components to distributed application JDBC RowSet is used as it provides direct access to the database.

Difference between Java and C++

JavaC++
Java does not support pointer.C++ supports the pointer concept.
Java doesn’t support structure and union.Structure and union are supported in C++.
Header file is not required. Header file is necessary in C++.
Java does not support operator overloading.It supports operator overloading.
Java uses finalize() method for memory cleanup.C++ uses destructor for memory destroying.
Java is pure object oriented language.C++ is only an extension of object oriented language.
Java does not support multiple inheritance.Multiple inheritance is supported by C++.
Java does not support global variable.C++ supports global variable.
Java uses instanceof operator for identifying an object.instanceof operator is not available in C++.
Write once, run anywhere (WORA).Write once, compile anywhere (WOCA)
Java has no goto statement.C++ has goto statement.
Java supports documentation comment.C++ does not support documentation comment.
Java doesn’t have any preprocessor.Preprocessor concept is available in C++, so it supports the #define or macros.
Java uses right shift operator (>>>) for inserting zeros at the top end.C++ uses right shift operator (>>).
Java supports the multithreading concept.C++ does not support any built in function for multithreading.