Continuing Studies in Java Development

Move beyond the basics of developing a Java application into the following areas: Java and distributed objects, Java security, integrating Java with databases and messaging systems, performance, and testing.

• Note: This course is being updated to include more exciting topics for Java programmers. It will also start to make use of Rational Application Developer V6 as the Interactive Development Environment beginning with all classes starting November 1, 2005. The course title at that point will change to Continuing Studies in Java Development .
• This course does not cover servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), or Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB).

• Audience

  This is an advanced course for experienced Java developers, who want to obtain more advanced server-side developer skills.

Skills Gained

Define services and Application Programming Interfaces (API) used for developing distributed Java applications.

• • Describe design patterns used to create reusable Java classes for server-side programming
  • Develop and design classes to utilize Java integration to databases
  • Describe the Java 2 platform security model
  • Examine the many alternatives in the ways that exceptions can be used and subclassed for particular applications
  • Set locale using the Locale class
  • Describe some considerations in server application construction
  • Describe Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), J2EE, and Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)

• Course Outline

  Java editions

• • introduce the three Java 2 Platform editions
  • compare and contrast features of J2SE, J2EE and J2ME
  • describe the resulting technologies of each edition
  • Coding best practices
  • describe coding conventions
  • discuss rebinding parameters in Java
  • describe Java Big 4
  • discuss immutable and thread safe objects
  • describe the proper use of constructors and conditional code blocks
  • Examining networking with sockets
  • define and use protocols
  • define and use sockets
  • define and use Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  • Serialization
  • describe serialization
  • describe externalization
  • compare and contrast serialization and xxternalization
  • describe the process of versioning a class
  • Design patterns (part 1)
  • describe the purpose of using a design pattern in application development
  • compare and contrast design patterns and an application framework
  • Distributed objects (part 1)
  • describe Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
  • discuss the responsibilities of the RMIClassLoader
  • describe of dynamic code loading
  • explain garbage collection in RMI
  • describe the role of the rmiregistry
  • describe the different RMI configuration models
  • describe the process to customize a distributed RMI application to use dynamic class loading
  • Design patterns (part 2)
  • describe and compare the Factory, Singleton, State, Bridge and Flyweight design patterns
  • Distributed objects (part 2)
  • describe the role that Java Interface Definition Language (IDL) plays in Java application development
  • explain the major IDL components and their function
  • understand the relationship between Java IDL and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
  • describe an Object Request Broker (ORB)
  • describe the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP)
  • describe RMI-IIOP
  • compare and contrast Java IDL, RMI, and RMI-IIOP
  • Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
  • describe directory and naming services
  • explain the usefulness of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
  • describe the use of JNDI to provide an interface to different directory service vendors
  • Exception handling
  • describe and understand exception handling concerns
  • Java for databases
  • write basic JDBC Java code to query an SQL database
  • explain the functions of Driver, Connection, Statement, and ResultSet
  • explain the use of connection pooling and datasources
  • describe SQL for Java (SQLJ) technology
  • Java for messaging systems
  • define basic messaging concepts
  • describe the parts of a message from a Java perspective
  • describe Java Message Service (JMS) support
  • describe JavaMail support
  • introduce the JavaMail API
  • describe the JavaBeans Activation Framework
  • Java resource loading
  • describe resources
  • explain class loader responsibilities
  • describe the java.lang.Class class
  • explain the loading of resources in Java
  • define the term Java Archive (JAR) and its use
  • Internationalization
  • define and compare globalization, internationalization and localization
  • define and use Java Locale class
  • isolate Locale-specific information using resource bundles
  • format and parse dates, times, numbers and messages
  • Security
  • describe the Java Security Model
  • describe general security concepts
  • describe Java-related security
  • understand keys and certificates
  • explain Java security policies and their creation
  • Server application construction
  • discuss how caching helps with server performance scalability
  • discuss some considerations in building a cache in the server
  • describe how using a Visitor design pattern helps with server function scalability
  • use the Visitor design pattern to increase server malleability
  • JUnit testing
  • define JUnit
  • list the advantages that incremental testing provides
  • Performance
  • code a Java program to take advantage of better performing code
  • describe the optimization process
  • explain how a Just in Time (JIT) compiler works
  • explain how Java HotSpot performance engine works

• Remarks

  The lab exercises in this course use WebSphere Studio Application Developer.

Continuing Studies in Java Development / JA3660GB (JA3660GBGB)