Complete List of Core

Java Topics

if-elseif-else

switch

Loop/Iteration Statement

Keywords
o

this

abstract

Core Java
JDK, JRE, JVM

for

Abstract Classes

while

Java Identifiers

do-while

Abstract
Methods

Java Keywords

for-each

super

Java Naming Conventions

final

Commands

Branching/Jump
Statement
break

javac

java

continue

javap

return

javapackager

javaws

jconsole

jmap

jhat

jinfo

Object, Class and Package

Variable

Local Variables

Class Variables (Static

Variables)

Instance Variables (NonStatic Variables)

Fields

Methods

Datatypes

Java Literals

Escape Sequence Characters

Casting

Operators

Assignment

Relational

Arithmetic

Conditional

Logical

Bitwise

Instance of

Multi Line

Control Statements
o

Selection/DecisionMaking Statement
if

if-else

Final Method

Final Class

Static Variable

Access Modifiers

Static Method

Non-Access Modifiers

Static Import

OOPS Concepts and their

implementation in Java
o Association
o

Aggregation

Abstraction

Encapsulation

Polymorphism

Compile time

Runtime

Inheritance

Relationship
o

IS-A

HAS-A

volatile

transient

String Handling
o

String Pool

String Class

StringBuffer Class

StringBuilder Class

CharSequence

Assertion

Thread & Concurrency

Defining, Instantiating
and Starting threads
Thread States

Cohesion

Thread Properties

Coupling

Thread Priorities

Overloading

Interrupting Threads

Overriding

Multi-Threading

Constructor

Using Thread Dump

Command Line Arguments

Locks

Array

Deadlock

Var-Args

Wrapper Classes

Auto-Boxing ( Boxing, UnBoxing)

Interfaces

Inter-Thread
Communication
Worker Thread

Daemon Thread

join() method

wait(), notify(), notifyAll()

methods
sleep() method

Single Line

Comments
o

Final Variable

static

Modifiers

Functional Interfaces
(New in Java 8)
Marker Interfaces

Classpath

Initializer Block
o

Instance Initializer Block

Static Initializer Block

Order of Execution

o
o
o
o

Synchronization (block &

Method)
Concurrent API
(java.util.concurrent)
Blocking Queue

Thread Pool

HashSet

Enum Types (Enumeration)

Thread Safe collection

LinkedHashSet

Data Formatting

Callables and Futures

TreeSet

Fork/Join

SortedSet

Executor

NavigableSet

Date and Calender

classes
Numbers and Currencies

Synchronizers

EnumSet

Locale

Parsing

Exception

Map

Exception Hierarchy

HashMap

Tokenizing

Hashtable

Formatting

TreeMap

Resource Bundles

LinkedHashMap

Annotations

SortedMap

Memory Management

NavigableMap

Compile-time and
Runtime Exception
Checked and
Unchecked
try, catch, finally, throw,
throws
try with resources (new
in Java 7)
multi-catch (new in Java
7)
Exception overriding

User Defined Exception

JVM thrown exception

o
o
o
o

Programmatically thrown
exception
Nested Classes
o

Static Nested Class

Inner Classes

Regular Inner
Class
Method Local
Inner Class
Anonymous
Inner Class
Serialization and Deserialization

Important Package

o
o
o

java.lang

java.util

java.math

Object class and its methods

Regular Expressions

Collection
o

hashCode() and equals()

Iterator and ListIterator

Enumeration

List

Set

Queue

Garbage Collection

Heap Size

PriorityQueue

Stack Size

Deque

Java Start-up Args

ArrayDeque

Utility Classes

Collections

Arrays

Ordered and Sorted

Collections
Comparator and
Comparable interfaces
Properties class

JDBC

GUI - Swing, AWT, Applet

Lambda Expressions (new in

Java 8)
Different ways to create Java
Objects
Other

Java 7 new features

Diamond Operator

fail-fast and fail-safe

properties
Diamond Syntax (new in
Java 7)
Backed Collection

Using String in switch statement

Automatic Resource
Management
Numeric literals with underscores

Multi-catch feature

Thread Safe Collection

New File API (NIO2.0)

CopyOnWriteArr
ayList
ConcurrentHash
Map
CopyOnWriteArr
aySet
Synchronized Wrappers

Unmodifiable wrappers

Collection Related
Exception ( i.e.
ConcurrentModificationE
xception )

o
o
o

Cloning

ArrayList

Reflection

Vector

Class Loaders

LinkedList

I/O and NIO API

Stack

RMI

Generics

Working with path

File change notification

Fork and Join

Supporting Dynamism

invokedynamic

java.lang.invoke

Java 8 new features

o

Lambda Expressions

Stream Collection Types

(java.util.stream)
Functional Interface
(java.util.function)
Nashorn - node.js on
JVM
Date/Time Changes
(java.time)
Type annotation

Default Methods

o
o
o