Books:

1. Object-Oriented Software Development in Java -- Principles, Patterns, and Frameworks,  Xiaoping Jia, 1/ed. Addison-Wesley 2000. (Primary Text)
2. The Java Programming Language, Ken Arnold, and James Gosling. 2/ed. Addison-Wesley 1997. (Reference)

• Java language
• Java architecture and run-time environment
• apps and applets
• JVM and bytecode
• security
• Classes and objects
• declararions
• object creation and initialization
• method invocation
• garbage collection
• equality and identity
• inner classes
• Interfaces and abstract classes
• abstract methods
• Inheritance
• extention and implementation
• single and multiple inheritance
• overloading, overriding, and hiding
• down-casting
• Packages
• organization
• naming convention
• Threads
• Race hazard
• creating threads
• synchronization
• wait and notify
• Using Java class libraries
• Wrapper classe
• Input and output
• byte streams and character streams (writers)
• Abstract Windows Toolkit (AWT) and Swing
• components and containers
• lightweight and native components
• animation, drawing, double-bufferring
• layout managers
• event listeners and event handling
• Collections
• sets, lists, maps, and hash tables
• iterators
• Networking
• client and and server sockets
• URL (protocol, host, and port)
• limitations of applets
• Object-oriented design
• The principles of abstraction and encapsulation
• Using abstract classes and interfaces
• Separation of concerns
• Reuseability, extensibility, and flexibility