JAVA Programming

Unit-1
1. Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

The C language is structured, efficient and high level language. Whenever a new programming
language is designed some trade-offs are made, such as

 ease-of-use verses power

 safety verses efficiency
 Rigidity versus extensibility

Prior to the c language, there are many languages:

 FORTRAN, which is efficient for scientific applications, but is not good for system
code.
 BASIC, which is easy to learn, but is not powerful, it is lack of structure.
 Assembly Language, which is highly efficient, but is not easy to learn.

These languages are designed to work with GOTO statement. As a result programs
written using these languages tend to produce "spaghetti code", which is impossible to
understand.

Dennis Ritchie, during his implementation of UNIX operating system, he developed C

language, which similar to an older language called BCPL, which is developed by Martin
Richards. The BCPL was influenced by a language called B, invented by Ken Thomson. C was
formally standardized in December 1989, when the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standard for C was adopted.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, C became the dominant computer programming
language, and it is still widely used today. Since C is a successful and useful language, you might
ask why a need for something else existed. The answer is complexity. A the program complexity
is increasing it demanded the better way to manage the complexity.

When computers were first programming was done by manually toggling in the binary
machine instructions by use of the front panel. As long as programs were just a few hundred
instructions long, this approach worked. As programs grew, assembly language was invented so
that a programmer could deal with larger, increasingly complex programs by using symbolic
representations of the machine instructions. As programs continued to grow, high-level
languages were introduced that gave the programmer more tools with which to handle
complexity.

The 1960s gave birth to structured programming. This is the method of programming
championed by languages such as C. The use of structured languages enabled programmers to

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write, for the first time, moderately complex programs fairly easily. However, even with
structured programming methods, once a project reaches a certain size, its complexity exceeds
what a programmer can manage. To solve this problem, a new way to program was invented,
called object-oriented programming (OOP). OOP is a programming methodology that helps
organize complex programs through the use of inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism.

2. The Three OOP Principles

All object-oriented programming languages provide mechanisms that help you implement the
object-oriented model. They are encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Encapsulation

Encapsulation is the mechanism that binds together code and the data it manipulates, and
keeps both safe from outside interference and misuse. One way to think about encapsulation is as
a protective wrapper that prevents the code and data from being arbitrarily accessed by other
code defined outside the wrapper. Access to the code and data inside the wrapper is tightly
controlled through a well-defined interface. In Java, the basis of encapsulation is the class. A
class defines the structure and behavior (data and code) that will be shared by a set of objects.
Each object of a given class contains the structure and behavior defined by the class. The objects
are sometimes referred to as instances of a class. Thus, a class is a logical construct; an object
has physical reality.

When you create a class, you will specify the code and data that constitute that class.
Collectively, these elements are called members of the class. Specifically, the data defined by the
class are referred to as member variables or instance variables. The code that operates on that
data is referred to as member methods or just methods. The members can be public or private.
When a member is made public any code outside the class can access them. If the members are
declared, then only the members of that class can access its members.

Inheritance

Inheritance is the process by which one object acquires the properties of another object. This is
important because it supports the concept of hierarchical classification. Without the use of
hierarchies, each object would need to define all of its characteristics explicitly. However, by use
of inheritance, an object need only define those qualities that make it unique within its class. It
can inherit its general attributes from its parent. Thus, it is the inheritance mechanism that makes
it possible for one object to be a specific instance of a more general case. The Class from which
the properties are acquired is called super class, and the class that acquires the properties is
called subclass. This is mainly used for Method overloading and Code reusability.

Polymorphism

Polymorphism (from Greek, meaning “many forms”) is a feature that allows one interface
to be used for a general class of actions. More generally, the concept of polymorphism is often
expressed by the phrase “one interface, multiple methods.” This means that it is possible to
design a generic interface to a group of related activities. This helps reduce complexity by

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allowing the same interface to be used to specify a general class of action. It is the compiler’s
job to select the specific action (that is, method) as it applies to each situation.

3. Procedural language Vs OOP

All computer programs consist of two elements: code and data. Furthermore, a program can
be conceptually organized around its code or around its data. That is, some programs are written
around “what is happening” and others are written around “who is being affected.” These are the
two paradigms that govern how a program is constructed. The first way is called the process-
oriented model or procedural language. This approach characterizes a program as a series of
linear steps (that is, code). The process-oriented model can be thought of as code acting on data.
Procedural languages such as C employ this model to considerable success.

To manage increasing complexity, the second approach, called object-oriented programming,

was designed. Object-oriented programming organizes a program around its data (that is,
objects) and a set of well-defined interfaces to that data. An object-oriented program can be
characterized as data controlling access to code.

4. Applications of OOP
There are mainly 4 type of applications that can be created using java programming:

1) Standalone Application

It is also known as desktop application or window-based application. An application that we

need to install on every machine such as media player, antivirus etc. AWT and Swing are used in
java for creating standalone applications.

2) Web Application

An application that runs on the server side and creates dynamic page, is called web application.
Currently, servlet, jsp, struts, etc. technologies are used for creating web applications in java.

3) Enterprise Application

An application that is distributed in nature, such as banking applications etc. It has the advantage
of high level security, load balancing and clustering. In java, EJB is used for creating enterprise
applications.

4) Mobile Application

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An application that is created for mobile devices. Currently Android and Java ME are used for
creating mobile applications.

5. History of JAVA
1. Brief history of Java
2. Java Version History

Java history is interesting to know. The history of java starts from Green Team. Java team
members (also known as Green Team), initiated a revolutionary task to develop a language for
digital devices such as set-top boxes, televisions etc. For the green team members, it was an
advance concept at that time. But, it was suited for internet programming. Later, Java technology
as incorporated by Netscape. Currently, Java is used in internet programming, mobile devices,
games, e-business solutions etc. There are given the major points that describes the history of
java.

1) James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in
June 1991. The small team of sun engineers called Green Team.

2) Originally designed for small, embedded systems in electronic appliances like set-top boxes.

3) Firstly, it was called "Greentalk" by James Gosling and file extension was .gt.

4) After that, it was called Oak and was developed as a part of the Green project.

Why Oak name for java language?

5) Why Oak? Oak is a symbol of strength and choosen as a national tree of many countries like
U.S.A., France, Germany, Romania etc. During 1991 to 1995 many people around the world
contributed to the growth of the Oak, by adding the new features. Bill Joy, Arthur van Hoff,
Jonathan Payne, Frank Yellin, and Tim Lindholm were key contributors to the original
prototype.

6) In 1995, Oak was renamed as "Java" because it was already a trademark by Oak
Technologies.

Why Java name for java language?

7) Why they choosed java name for java language? The team gathered to choose a new name.
The suggested words were "dynamic", "revolutionary", "Silk", "jolt", "DNA" etc. They wanted
something that reflected the essence of the technology: revolutionary, dynamic, lively, cool,

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unique, and easy to spell and fun to say. According to James Gosling "Java was one of the top
choices along with Silk". Since java was so unique, most of the team members preferred java.

8) Java is an island of Indonesia where first coffee was produced (called java coffee).

9) Notice that Java is just a name not an acronym.

10) Originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which is now a subsidiary of
Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995.

11) In 1995, Time magazine called Java one of the Ten Best Products of 1995.

12) JDK 1.0 released in(January 23, 1996).

Java Version History

There are many java versions that has been released. Current stable release of Java is Java SE 8.

1. JDK Alpha and Beta (1995)

2. JDK 1.0 (23rd Jan, 1996)
3. JDK 1.1 (19th Feb, 1997)
4. J2SE 1.2 (8th Dec, 1998)
5. J2SE 1.3 (8th May, 2000)
6. J2SE 1.4 (6th Feb, 2002)
7. J2SE 5.0 (30th Sep, 2004)
8. Java SE 6 (11th Dec, 2006)
9. Java SE 7 (28th July, 2011)
10. Java SE 8 (18th March, 2014)

6. Java Virtual Machine

The key that allows Java to solve both the security and the portability problems is the byte
code. The out of Java Compiler is not directly executable. Rather, it contains highly optimized
set of instructions. This set of instructions is called, "byte code". This byte code is designed to be
executed by Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JVM also called as the interpreter for byte code.
JVM also helps to solve many problems associated with web-based programs.

Translating a Java program into byte code makes it much easier to run a program in a
wide variety of environments because only the JVM needs to be implemented for each platform.
Once the run-time package exists for a given system, any Java program can run on it. Remember,
although the details of the JVM will differ from platform to platform, all understand the same

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Java byte code. Thus, the execution of byte code by the JVM is the easiest way to create truly
portable programs.

The fact that a Java program is executed by the JVM also helps to make it secure. Because the
JVM is in control, it can contain the program and prevent it from generating side effects outside
of the system.

In general, when a program is compiled to an intermediate form and then interpreted by a virtual
machine, it runs slower than it would run if compiled to executable code. However, with Java,
the differential between the two is not so great. Because byte code has been highly optimized, the
use of byte code enables the JVM to execute programs much faster than you might expect

To give on-the-fly performance, the Sun began to design HotSpot Technology for Compiler,
which is called, Just-In-Time compiler. The JIT, Compiler also produces output immediately
afetr compilation.

7. Features of Java

There is given many features of java. They are also known as java buzzwords. The Java Features
given below are simple and easy to understand.

o Simple
o Secure
o Portable
o Object-oriented
o Robust
o Multithreaded
o Architecture-neutral
o Interpreted
o High performance
o Distributed
o Dynamic

Simple

Java was designed to be easy for the professional programmer to learn and use effectively.
According to Sun, Java language is simple because: syntax is based on C++ (so easier for
programmers to learn it after C++). removed many confusing and/or rarely-used features e.g.,
explicit pointers, operator overloading etc. No need to remove unreferenced objects because
there is Automatic Garbage Collection in java.

Secure
Once the byte code generated, the code can be transmitted to other computer in the world with
knowing the internal details of the source code.

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Portable

The byte code can be easily carried from one machine to other machine.

Object Oriented

Everything in Java is an Object. The object model in Java is simple and easy to extend, while
primitive types, such as integers, are kept as high-performance non-objects.

Robust

The multi-plat-formed environment of the Web places extraordinary demands on a program,

because the program must execute reliably in a variety of systems. Thus, the ability to create
robust programs was given a high priority in the design of Java. Java also frees from having
worry about many errors. Java is Robust in terms of memory management and mishandled
exceptions. Java provides automatic memory management and also provides well defined
exception handling mechanism.

Multithreaded

Java was designed to meet the real-world requirement of creating interactive, networked
programs. To accomplish this, Java supports multithreaded programming, which allows you to
write programs that do many things simultaneously.

Architecture-neutral

The Java designers made several hard decisions in the Java language and the Java Virtual
Machine in an attempt to alter this situation. Their goal was “write once; run anywhere, any time,
forever.” To a great extent, this goal was accomplished.

Interpreted and High Performance

Java enables the creation of cross-platform programs by compiling into an intermediate
representation called Java byte code. This code can be executed on any system that implements
the Java Virtual Machine. Most previous attempts at cross-platform solutions have done so at the
expense of performance. As explained earlier, the Java byte code was carefully designed so that
it would be easy to translate directly into native machine code for very high performance by
using a just-in-time compiler.

Distributed

Java is designed for the distributed environment of the Internet because it handles TCP/IP
protocols. In fact, accessing a resource using a URL is not much different from accessing a file.
Java also supports Remote Method Invocation (RMI). This feature enables a program to invoke
methods across a network.

Dynamic

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Java programs carry with them substantial amounts of run-time type information that is used to
verify and resolve accesses to objects at run time. This makes it possible to dynamically link
code in a safe and expedient manner.
8. Program Structures
Simple Java Program
Example.java

class Example
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}

Entering the Program

We can use any text editor such as "notepad' or "dos text editor". The source code is typed and is
saved with ".java" as extension. The source code contains one or more class definitions. The
program name will be same as class name in which main function is written. This in not
compulsory, but by convention this is used. The source file is officially called as compilation
unit. We can even uses our choice of interest name for the program. If we use a different name
than the class name, then compilation is done with program name, and running is done with class
file name. To avoid this confusion and organize the programs well, it is suggested to put the
same name for the program and class name, but not compulsory.

Compiling the Program

To compile the program, first execute the compiler, "javac", specifying the name of the source
file on the command line, as shown bellow:

c:\>javac Example.java

The javac compiler creates the file called "Example.class", that contains the byte code version of
the source code. This byte code is the intermediate representation of the source code that
contains the instructions that the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) will execute. Thus the output of
the javac is not the directly executable code.
To actually run the program, we must use Java interpreter, called "java". This is
interpreter the "Example.class" file given as input.
When the program is run with java interpreter, the following output is produced:

Hello World

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Description of the every line of the program

The first line contains the keyword class and class name, which actually the basic unit for
encapsulation, in which data and methods are declared.

Second line contains "{" which indicates the beginning of the class.

Third line contains the

public static void main(String args[])

where public is access specifier, when a member of a class is made public it can be accessed by
the outside code also. The main function is the beginning of from where execution starts. Java is
case-sensitive. "Main" is different from the "main". In main there is one parameter, String args,
which is used to read the command line arguments.

Fourth line contains the "{", which is the beginning of the main function.

Fifth line contains the statement

System.out.println("Hello World");

Here "System" is the predefined class, that provides access to the system, and out is the output
stream that is used to connect to the console. The println(), is used to display string passed to it.
This can even display other information to.

9. Installation of JDK 1.6

Installing the JDK Software

If you do not already have the JDK software installed or if JAVA_HOME is not set, the Java CAPS installation will not
be successful. The following tasks provide the information you need to install JDK software and set JAVA_HOME on
UNIX or Windows systems.

The following list provides the Java CAPS JDK requirements by platform.

Solaris

JDK5: At least release 1.5.0_14

JDK6: At least release 1.6.0_03

IBM AIX

JDK5: The latest 1.5 release supported by IBM AIX

Linux (Red Hat and SUSE)

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JDK5: At least release 1.5.0_14

JDK6: At least release 1.6.0_03

Macintosh

JDK5: The latest 1.5 release supported by Apple

Microsoft Windows

JDK5: At least release 1.5.0_14

JDK6: At least release 1.6.0_03

To Install the JDK Software and Set JAVA_HOME on a

Windows System
1. Install the JDK software.
a. Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

Note: java.sun.com now owned by oracle corporation

b. Select the appropriate JDK software and click Download.

The JDK software is installed on your computer, for example, at C:\Program

Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02. You can move the JDK software to another location if desired.

2. To set JAVA_HOME:
a. Right click My Computer and select Properties.

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b. On the Advanced tab, select Environment Variables, and then edit JAVA_HOME to point to where the JDK
software is located, for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02.

Installation of the 32-bit JDK on Linux Platforms

This procedure installs the Java Development Kit (JDK) for 32-bit Linux, using an archive binary file (.tar.gz).

These instructions use the following file:

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jdk-8uversion-linux-i586.tar.gz
1. Download the file.

Before the file can be downloaded, you must accept the license agreement. The archive binary can be installed
by anyone (not only root users), in any location that you can write to. However, only the root user can install the
JDK into the system location.

2. Change directory to the location where you would like the JDK to be installed, then move the .tar.gz archive
binary to the current directory.

3. Unpack the tarball and install the JDK.

4. % tar zxvf jdk-8uversion-linux-i586.tar.gz

The Java Development Kit files are installed in a directory called jdk1.8.0_version in the current directory.

5. Delete the .tar.gz file if you want to save disk space.

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