Java Programming Language Workshop

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Course Overview

The Java Programming Language Workshop course (SL-285) provides students with practical experience in designing a vertical solution for a distributed, multitier application. Students use graphical user interface (GUI) design principles and network-communications capabilities to code a functional Java application that interacts with a networked database server. The significant amount of lab time illustrates the workshop nature of this course.

Skills Gained

• Implement and test a from-the-ground-up program that could be used in a commercial intranet application
• Develop classes to connect programs to SQL database systems by using the core aspects of the Java Database Connectivity application programming interface (API) (JDBC API)
• Apply design patterns to create reusable classes
• Organize and set up the infrastructure to support a Java technology project
• Create two-tier and three-tier Java technology applications
• Create remote objects by using the Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI)
• Create a multithreaded server

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Develop applications by using the Java programming language
• Understand basic Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams
• Understand basic Structured Query Language (SQL) statements
• Understand how to implement interfaces and handle Java programming exceptions
• Use object-oriented programming techniques
• Understand GUI design
• Understand basic Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) communication
• Program with sockets or streams

Course Outline

Module 1 - Introducing the BrokerTool Project

• Explain the problem statement of the BrokerTool project

Module 2 - Model View Controller Design Pattern

• Explain design patterns
• Explain the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern
• Analyze how the MVC design pattern can be used in applications

Module 3 - BrokerTool Design

• Begin the analysis and design of the BrokerTool project
• Apply the MVC design pattern
• Develop a build plan for the project

Module 4 - Introduction to Java Database Connectivity API

• Describe the JDBC API
• Explain how using the abstraction layer provided by the JDBC API can make a database front end portable across platforms
• Describe the five major tasks involved with the JDBC programmer's interface
• State the requirements of a JDBC driver and its relationship to the JDBC driver manager
• Describe the data access objects (DAO) pattern and its applicability to a given scenario

Module 5 - Creating Client Software: Part 1

• Apply the principles of good GUI design
• Differentiate, at a high level, between the new Java Foundation Classes/Swing components (Swing components) and the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) model
• Explain how you can create the class structure needed for an object-oriented GUI
• Design and implement a GUI for the BrokerTool project using your choice of containers, components, and layout managers
• Apply the Composite Design pattern to build the BrokerTool GUI

Module 6 - Creating Client Software: Part 2

• Implement a view class
• Implement a controller class

Module 7 - Advanced GUI

• Use JTable and JTabbedPane classes in your application to build a sophisticated GUI

Module 8 - Logging Utility

• Use the logging API
• Examine a logging example
• Write a custom handler
• Set filters to a particular handler

Module 9 - Multiple-Tier Design

• Compare the BrokerTool two-tier design with the BrokerTool three-tier design
• Explain how you can use the Java technology package java.net to implement networking applications
• Demonstrate how to use the Command design pattern in the BrokerTool application
• Apply the Strategy design pattern to create reusable code
• Describe how you can implement the BrokerTool network client
• Describe how you can implement the BrokerTool network server

Module 10 - Advanced Multiple-Tier Design

• Use the new Java concurrency APIs to create a multithreaded server
• Examine a thread pool
• Identify integrity problems in multithreaded servers

Module 11 - Remote Objects

• Create remote objects
• Use Java RMI to create a multitier application

Java Programming Language Workshop / SL-285