RAD v6 WebSphere

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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

RAD v6 WebSphere / RADP6 (RADP6GB)