Java™ Programming

Duration: 5 days
Price: Contact us for pricing.

Description:  This hands on course introduces experienced programmers to Sun's Java™ technology and Java programming techniques. The Java platform provides an object-oriented, portable and robust framework for application development. Attendees will learn how to integrate Java technology into corporate web pages and how Java can be used as a powerful cross-platform distributed development engine. The course also covers designing classes and objects, inheritance and polymorphism, and the details about creating programs for use on a distributed network, with emphasis on JSP, Servlets, and JDBC. The course is designed to leverage the participants' existing programming skills and to highlight the new and extended features of the Java programming framework as compared to other common languages. Comprehensive lab exercises using the Java 1.5 Development Kit provide hands on practice crucial to developing competence and confidence with the new skills being learned.

The final day of this class includes thorough coverage of GUI programming using the Swing library.

Prerequisites: Basic programming skills in a structured language. Knowledge and experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD) is helpful, but not required.

Introduction to Java Cornerstones of the Java Platform Java Advantages The Java Programming Language The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Core Java Libraries Extension Libraries		Developing Software Using Java Applications, Applets, Web Components Java SE, Java EE, Java ME Installing the JDK Compiling and Running Java from the Command Line The main() Method package and import Statements JAR Files Class Loading and CLASSPATH Online API Documentation JDK Tools Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
Java Syntax Fundamentals Comments Identifiers Reserved Words Classes Statements and Blocks Variables, Constants, Literals Scope of Variables Methods Method Overloading static Members Static Import (Java SE 5+) Naming Conventions		Data Types and Operators Primitive Types Boolean, Integer, Floating-Point and Character Types Unicode Characters and Strings Type Conversion and Casting Expressions and Operators Arithmetic Operators Increment/Decrement Operators Division and Remainder Operators Assignment Operators Relational Comparison and Logical Operators Conditional Operator Bitwise Operators Order of Evaluation Operator Precedence and Associativity
Flow of Control if/else statement Combining ifs while and do/while Loops for Loop and Loop Counters break and continue Break to Labeled Loops switch Statement return Statement Exit Sstatus		Using Java Classes and Objects Classes as Data Types Objects and References Memory in the JVM Object Initialization Objects as Arguments to Methods Objects as Return Values Garbage Collection Primitive Wrapper Classes - Integer, Double, etc. Autoboxing and Unboxing (Java SE 5+)
Strings String Manipulation StringBuffer and StringBuilder Simple Number/String Conversion		Arrays Declaring and Allocating Arrays Multi-Dimensional Array Array Literals The java.util.Arrays Class Command-Line Arguments Enhanced for Loop (Java SE 5+) Arrays as Method Arguments Variable-Length arglists (varargs) (Java SE 5+) Autoboxing and varargs
Developing Java Classes Object-Oriented (OO) Concepts Methods, member variables Accessing Members Tight Encapsulation Access Control Modifiers Constructors and Finalizer Using this Class Variables - Static Members and Static Blocks Instance Variables Local Variables Variables and Initialization Inner Classes Anonymous Classes JavaBeans Driver Classes		Inheritance Extending Java Classes Accessing Superclass Constructors and Members Overriding Methods Abstract CLasses and Methods Polymorphism Overriding Methods of java.lang.Object equals(), toString(), hashCode(); Final Classes and Methods Multiple Inheritance Interfaces Casting Object References Documenting Classes with the javadoc Utility Unit Testing
Type Safety Annotations (Java SE 5+) Java SE Built-In Annotations Defining New Annotations Enumerated Types (Java SE 5+) Constants and Contrained Values Defining and Declaring enums enum Values enums and switch Statements values() and valueOf() Generic Classes (Java SE 5+) Generic Type Parameters Using Type Parameters inClass, Variable and Method Declarations Using a Generic Class Bounded Type Parameters		The Collections Framework The java.util Package Container Objects Arrays as Containers Legacy Container Classes - Vector, Hashtable, Enumeration Legacy Container Generic forms (Java SE 5+) Collections Interfaces - Collection<E>, List<E>, Set<E>, SortedSet<E> Map Interfaces - Map<K,V> Coding to the Interface List<E>, Set<E>, Queue<E> and Map<K,V> implementations Iterating Collections with the Iterator<E> Interface Collections and the Enhanced for Loop Choosing the Correct Implementation and Interface The java.util.Collections Utility Class Sorting Using the Comparable Interface
Exceptions and Exception Handling The Throwable Hierarchy: Error, RuntimeException and Checked Exception Methods that Throw Exceptions Handling Exceptions with try-catch-finally Blocks Application-Defined Exceptions Throwing an Exception Assertions (Java 1.4+) Enabling Assertions at Run-Time		Basic Input and Output (I/O) The java.io Package Using Stream Classes Combining Streams flush() and close() Console Input and Output Navigating the File System File Streams Character File Input and Output Reader and Writer Interfaces BufferedReader and BufferedWriter Binary File I/O - DataOutputStream and DataInputStream Object Streams - ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream Serialization and Versioning Random Access Files Formatted Iinput and Output Formatter (Java SE 5+) Format specifiers, printf() and format() java.text Classes for Formatting Dates, Mumbers, Currencies Input with Scanner (Java SE 5+)
Network Programming The java.net Package IP Addresses and Port Numbers Client/Server Socket Programming URL and URLConnection classes Communicating with Web Servers HTTP GET and POST Operations Posting to a Server-Side Program		Threads Life and States of a Thread Creating and Starting a Thread java.lang.Runnable and java.lang.Thread Stopping a Thread Inter-Thread Communication Thread-Safe Access to Shared Objects and Variables Synchronized Code Sleeping Interrupting a Blocked Thread wait(), notify(), notifyAll() Example Thread Scheduling Thread Groups Writing a Multithreaded Server
Java Database Connectivity The java.sql Package JDBC Architecture and Drivers SQL Exceptions DriverManager, Connection, Statement and ResultSet interfaces Examining database MetaData Basic Query and Update Improving Performance with PreparedStatement and CallableStatement Interfaces JDBC Transaction Management		Java Web Applications Java Enterprise Edition Java EE Application Servers Web Application Directory and WAR files Deploying a Web Application - the web.xml file Servlet Architecture The javax.servlet Package Servlet Classes and Interfaces Writing a Servlet HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse Handling HTML Forms Retrieving Request Parameters
JavaServer Pages (JSPs) JSP Lifecycle Elements of a JSP Directives, Declarative, Scriptlets Writing a JSP Objects Available in a JSP Repeated content in JSPs Translation-Time and Request-Time Includes Using JavaBeans in a JSP Session Management Mixing JSPs and Servlets Installing and Using Tag Libraries The JSP taglib Directive The Tag Library Descriptor

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