pt. 1. The Java language. The history and evolution of Java -- An overview of Java -- Data types, variables, and arrays -- Operators -- Control statements -- Introducing classes -- A closer look at methods and classes -- Inheritance -- Packages and interfaces -- Exception handling -- Multithreaded programming -- Enumerations, autoboxing, and metadata (annotations) -- I/O, applets, and other topics -- Generics -- pt. 2. The Java library. String handling -- Exploring java.lang -- java.util part 1: the collections framework -- java.util part 2: more utility classes -- Input/output: exploring java.io -- Networking -- The applet class -- Event handling -- Introducing the AWT: working with windows, graphics and text -- Using AWT controls, layout managers, and menus -- Images -- The concurrent utilities -- NIO, regular expressions, and other packages -- pt. 3. Software development using Java. Java beans -- A tour of swing -- Servlets -- pt. 4. Applying Java. Financial applets and servlets -- Creating a download manager in Java -- Using Java's documentation comments.