Effective Java 3rd Edition

Index

• Introduction
• 1 Prefix
• 2 Creating and Destroying Objects
  • Item 1: Consider static factory methods instead of constructors
  • Item 2: Consider a builder when faced with many constructor parameters
  • Item 3: Enforce the singleton property with a private constructor or an enum type
  • Item 4: Enforce noninstantiability with a private constructor
  • Item 5: Perfer dependecy injection to hardwiring resources
  • Item 6: Avoid creating unnecessary objects
  • Item 7: Eliminate obsolete object references
  • Item 8: Avoid finalizers and cleaners
  • Item 9: Prefer try-with-resources to try-finally
• 3 Methods Common to All Objects
  • Item 10: Obey the general contract when overriding equals
  • Item 11: Always override hashCode when you override equals
  • Item 12: Always override toString
  • Item 13: Override clone judiciously
  • Item 14: Consider implementing Comparable
• 4 Classes and Interfaces
  • Item 15: Minimize the accessibility of classes and members
  • Item 16: In public classes, use accessor methods, not public fields
  • Item 17: Minimize mutability
  • Item 18: Favor composition over inheritance
  • Item 19: Design and document for inheritance or else prohibit it
  • Item 20: Prefer interfaces to abstract classes
  • Item 21: Design interfaces for posterity
  • Item 22: Use interfaces only to define types
  • Item 23: Prefer class hierarchies to tagged classes
  • Item 24: Favor static member classes over nonstatic
  • Item 25: Limit source files to a single top-level class
• 5 Generics
  • Item 26: Don't use raw types
  • Item 27: Eliminate unchecked warnings
  • Item 28: Prefer lists to arrays
  • Item 29: Favor generic types
  • Item 30: Favor generic methods
  • Item 31: Use bounded wildcards to increase API flexibility
  • Item 32: Combine generics and varargs judiciously
  • Item 33: Consider typesafe heterogeneous containers
• 6 Enums and Annotations
  • Item 34: Use enums instead of int constants
  • Item 35: Use instance fields instead of ordinals
  • Item 36: Use EnumSet instead of bit fields
  • Item 37: Use EnumMap instead of ordinal indexing
  • Item 38: Emulate extensible enums with interfaces
  • Item 39: Prefer annotations to naming patterns
  • Item 40: Consistently use the Override annotation
  • Item 41: Use marker interfaces to define types
• 7 Lambdas and Streams
  • Item 42: Prefer lambdas to anonymous classes
  • Item 43: Prefer method references to lambdas
  • Item 44: Favor the use of standard functional interfaces
  • Item 45: Use streams judiciously
  • Item 46: Prefer side-effect-free functions in streams
  • Item 47: Prefer Collection to Stream as a return type
  • Item 48: Use caution when making streams parallel
• 8 Methods
  • Item 49: Check parameters for validity
  • Item 50: Make defensive copies when needed
  • Item 51: Design method signatures carefully
  • Item 52: Use overloading judiciously
  • Item 53: Use varargs judiciously
  • Item 54: Return empty collections or arrays, not nulls
  • Item 55: Return optionals judiciouslly
  • Item 56: Write doc comments for all exposed API elements
• 9 General Programming
  • Item 57: Minimize the scope of local variables
  • Item 58: Prefer for-each loops to traditional for loops
  • Item 59: Know and use the libraries
  • Item 60: Avoid float and double if exact answsers are required
  • Item 61: Prefer primitive types to boxed primitives
  • Item 62: Avoid strings where other types are more appropriate
  • Item 63: Beware the performance of string concatenation
  • Item 64: Refer to objects by their interfaces
  • Item 65: Prefer interfaces to reflection
  • Item 66: Use native methods judiciously
  • Item 67: Optimize judiciously
  • Item 68: Adhere to generally accepted naming conventions
• 10 Exceptions
  • Item 69: Use exceptins only for exceptional conditions
  • Item 70: Use checked exceptions for recoverable conditions and runtime exceptions for programming errors
  • Item 71: Avoid unnecessary use of checked exceptions
  • Item 72: Favor the use of standard exceptions
  • Item 73: Throw exceptions appropriate to the abstractions
  • Item 74: Document all exceptins thrown by each method
  • Item 75: Include failure-capture information indetail messages
  • Item 76: Strive for failure atomicity
  • Item 77: Don't ignore exceptions
• 11 Concurrency
  • Item 78: Synchronize access to shared mutable data
  • Item 79: Avoid excessive synchronization
  • Item 80: Prefer executors, tasks, and streams to threads
  • Item 81: Prefer concurrency utilities to wait and notify
  • Item 82: Document thread safety
  • Item 83: Use lazy initialization judiciously
  • Item 84: Don't depend on the thread scheduler
• 12 Serialization
  • Item 85: Prefer alternatives to Java serialization
  • Item 86: Implement Serialzable with great caution
  • Item 87: Condider using a custom serialized form
  • Item 88: Write readObject methods defensively
  • Item 89: For instance control, prefer enum types to readResovle
  • Item 90: Consider serialization proxies instead of serialized instances