Using Collections and Strings in a Reusable Class - Java Programming: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques - page 537

CHAPTER

9

U sing C ollections and S trings

in a R eusable C lass

Objectives

You will have
mastered the material in
this chapter when you can:

• Develop a class for reuse
• Understand class and instance variables
• Use the final qualifier
• Understand the Collections Framework
• Create an ArrayList object
• Create overloaded constructors
• Code accessor (get) methods
• Code mutator (set) methods
• Code accessor methods for read-only attributes
• Understand when to use public and private methods
• Code public instance methods
• Use an ArrayList method
• Understand and use the String and StringBuffer classes
• Code private helper methods
• Test a reusable class
• Use a JPassword field