IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) v6.x: for experienced Java Developers

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06/04/10

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25/05/10

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19/07/10

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13/09/10

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Course Overview

This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.

Audience

Developers, Analysts, and anyone else who has to work with IBM's Rational Application Developer (RAD).

Skills Gained

On completion of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Appreciate the possibilities of RAD as IDE for the development of all the elements in a J2EE environment.
• Describe the different perspectives, views and editors of RAD.
• Discuss the fundamentals of Java development using RAD, including the development of GUIs with the Visual Editor for Java.
• Describe the fundamentals of web application development using RAD by means of Page Designer, HTML, cascading style sheets, servlets and JSPs.
• Understand the tools and wizards for manipulating EJB, XML, RDBMS, web services, etc. using RAD.
• Describe the integration of RAD with the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) test environment.
• Understand team development.

Prerequisites

A good understanding of J2SE APIs and OO principles in Java. Attending our Java Programming and XML Intro courses would provide suitable background.

Course Outline

Rational Application Developer (RAD)

• History and overview of the Rational development platform;
• introduction to development tools;
• navigation in the workbench: perspectives, views, editors;
• debugging: incremental compilation, code import and export.

Java development

• use of the different Java perspectives and editors;
• testing and debugging;
• development of GUI using the Visual Editor;
• JUnit testing;
• using UML, Visual Editor.

Database development

• principles of database access;
• JDBC;
• database connections;
• database servers;
• database access from Java and web applications;
• SQLJ support.

Web application development

• page designer; HTML;
• cascading style sheets;
• • servlets and JavaServer Pages;
  • testing and debugging;
• Struts tools;
• JavaServer Face (JSF) tools.

XML

• defining, generating, manipulating the different XML formats (XML, DTD, XSD, ...);
• XSL, XSLT (and debugging), Xpath.

EJB development

• development of Enterprise Java Beans;
• database connectivity;
• setting up the server.

Team Development

• team development process;
• repository management;
• editions and versions;
• CVS or ClearCase LT