G

F

Façade 746

Factory 746

factory class 607

interfaces involved to employ 686

factory class pattern

in action 602

factory pattern

example code 692

false 129

faux-composite component 393

File class 508

using 513

file I/O 508

ASCII 509

buffer

flushing 511

BufferedInputStream 521

BufferedOutputStream 516

BufferedReader 528

BufferedWriter 525

buffering

purpose of 511

write operations 511

byte streams 515

categorizing I/O classes 510

character streams 524

choosing the right class 510

DataInputStream 522

DataOutputStream 517

File class

using 513

file terminal classes 511

FileInputStream 521

FileOutputStream 515

FileReader 527

FileWriter 524

fixed-length-record

locking with lock_token 534

InputStreamReader 527

InputStreams 520

intermediate classes 511

Object

calling notifyAll() method 534

calling wait() method 534

ObjectInputStream 523

ObjectOutputStream 518

OutputStreamWriter 526

PrintStream 520

PrintWriter 526

Properties class

example of use 529

RandomAccessFile class

use of 531–544

Reader classes 527

sink

term defined 508

source

term defined 508

synchronized keyword usage 534

Unicode characters 509

user fronting classes 511

UTF-8 encoding 509

files

reading bytes into byte array 521

reading contents into character array 527

final 128

final class 285

example of 714

final method 285

final variable 132

finalize method 581

finalize()

use of 618

finalize() method

alternative approach 710

time-sensitive issues 710

finally 128

Float 149

float 128

floor 66

flow 10

achieving 10

concept of 10

stages 10

FlowLayout 318

alignment options 318

for 128

for each loop 501

for-each loop 501

frame 309

fundamental language features 64