Java Programming

Course Number: 558-JK
Recommended Duration: 5 days

Intended Audience
Experienced programmers (COBOL, Visual Basic, or some other language). A three-day, abbreviated version of this course is available for experienced C++ programmers.

Course Overview
Experienced programmers are introduced to Java. Participants will create, test, and deploy Java applications. Servlets, and JSPs will be introduced in exercises at the end of the course. Exercises include creating classes, inheritance, JDBC, and Java best practices. There are 22 machine exercises. Exercises use text editor, Sun Java J2SE and J2EE JDKs. IDEs such as Eclipse, IBM RAD, JDeveloper, JBuilder, etc... may be used upon request.

Course appropriate for Java 5.0 (Java 1.5) and J2EE 1.4. Course covers Java 2 (aka. Java 1.4) with some new Java 5.0 features being introduced. Most topics and examples also apply to Java 1.1, Java 1.2, Java 1.3, Java 1.4., and J2EE 1.3.

Objectives
Participants will learn object oriented basics, and how to create, test, and deploy programs using the Java language. Students write applications, servlets, and JSPs as part of the hands-on exercises. Upon request coverage of the locally available IDE (e.g. Eclipse, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, JDeveloper, JBuilder, etc... may be added.

Prerequisites
Students must have programming experience. Experience with text editor, manipulating files and directories, and using a browser are required.

Topics

Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Java Security
Applications, Applets, Servlets, JSPs
Classes, Methods, and Variables
Compilation and testing
Object-oriented principles (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, etc…)
Packages, naming, and Import
Comments and Javadoc
Datatypes and variables
Primitive types and Strings
Reference vs. Non-Reference types
Classes and Objects: creating new classes, garbage collection
Arrays and Collection objects
Operators and Expressions
Conditions: if-then-else, switch
Loops: for/while/do while
Exceptions: try, throw, catch
Inheritance: Subclasses and Superclasses
Class vs. Instance variables/methods
Constructors
Multi-threading Intro.
Java's built-in class libraries
Java networking Intro.
Java File I/O Basics
Introduction to Java SQL access using JDBC (Oracle or DB2 UDB extensions optionally covered)
Java Beans
Servlet basics
JSP introduction

Java Programming

Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Java Security

Applications, Applets, Servlets, JSPs

Classes, Methods, and Variables

Compilation and testing

Object-oriented principles (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, etc…)

Packages, naming, and Import

Comments and Javadoc

Datatypes and variables

Primitive types and Strings

Reference vs. Non-Reference types

Classes and Objects: creating new classes, garbage collection

Arrays and Collection objects

Operators and Expressions

Conditions: if-then-else, switch

Loops: for/while/do while

Exceptions: try, throw, catch

Inheritance: Subclasses and Superclasses

Class vs. Instance variables/methods

Constructors

Multi-threading Intro.

Java's built-in class libraries

Java networking Intro.

Java File I/O Basics

Introduction to Java SQL access using JDBC (Oracle or DB2 UDB extensions optionally covered)

Java Beans

Servlet basics

JSP introduction