Table of Contents

Foreword By James Gosling, Sun Microsystems Preface To The Instructor List Of Projects Discussed In Detail In This Book Acknowledgements PART 1 FOUNDATIONS OF OBJECT-ORIENTATION Chapter 1 Objects And Classes Chapter 2 Understanding Class Definitions Chapter 3 Object Interatction Chapter 4 Grouping Objects Chapter 5 More Sophisticated Behaviour Chapters 6 Well-Behaved Objects Chapter 7 Designing Classes PART 2 APPLICATION STRUCTURES Chapter 8 Improving Structure With Inheritance Chapter 9 More About Inheritance Chapter 10 Further Abstraction Techniques Chapter 11 Handling Errors Chapter 12 Designing Applications Chapter 13 A Case Study Appendices A Working With A Bluej Project B Java Data Types C Java Control Structures D Operators E Running Java Without Bluej F Configuring Bluej Index

About the Author

Michael Kolling is one of the developers of the BlueJ software, and is currently based at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. David J. Barnes is at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and is the author of Object-Oriented Programming with Java, also published by Prentice Hall.