Advanced Java Training: Advanced Java Programming

Java Training Outline

• Generics
• Using Generics
• Type Erasure
• Type Boundaries
• Wildcards
• Generic Methods
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Generics
• Legacy Code and Generics
• Threads
• Java Thread Model
• Creating and Running Threads
• Manipulating Thread State
• Thread Synchronization
• Volatile Fields vs. Synchronized Methods
• wait and notify
• join and sleep
• The Concurrency API
• Atomic Operations
• Reflection
• Uses for Meta-Data
• The Reflection API
• The Class<T> Class
• The java.lang.reflect Package
• Reading Type Information
• Navigating Inheritance Trees
• Dynamic Instantiation
• Dynamic Invocation
• Reflecting on Generics
• Annotations
• Aspect-Oriented Programming and Java
• The Annotations Model
• Annotation Types and Annotations
• Built-In Annotations
• Annotations vs. Descriptors (XML)
• Sockets
• The OSI Reference Model
• Network Protocols
• The Socket Class
• The ServerSocket Class
• Connecting Through URL Objects
• HTTP and Other TCP Servers
• Datagram Clients and Servers
• Non-Blocking Sockets
• Overview
• Three Tiers for J2EE
• Three Tiers for J2SE
• The Case Study
• Design Patterns
• Domain and Service Models
• The Presentation Tier
• The Standalone/Client Application
• JDesktopPane and JinternalFrame
• Adapting JList, JTable, and JTree to Services
• Presentation-Tier Patterns
• The Business Tier
• Distributing the Application
• A Chain of Services
• Logging
• Business-Tier Patterns
• Designing for Latency
• The Persistence Tier
• A Database is Not a Persistence Tier!
• Persistence Frameworks
• Persistent-Object Strategies
• Persistence-Tier Patterns
• Caching
• Introduction to JFC
• Abstract Windowing Toolkit Basics
• Simple Layout Management
• Simple Event Handling
• Lightweight Controls
• JFC Feature Set
• JFC Architecture and Relationship to AWT
• JFC Application Design
• Role of a JFrame
• Building a Frame-Based JFC Application
• Panes
• Using Dialogs
• JFC Components
• JFC Component Class Hierarchy
• JComponent Features
• Simple Control Types
• Text Components
• Menus
• Managing Look and Feel
• RMI Architecture
• Motivation for RMI
• RMI, EJB, and CORBA
• RMI Architecture
• Lifetime of a Remote Method Invocation
• Registries
• Naming and URL Resolution
• Interface Design
• The Remote Interface
• Implementation Classes
• The RemoteObject and RemoteServer Classes
• The UnicastRemoteObject Class
• Server Implementation
• Using the Registry
• Client Implementation
• Code Deployment
• Practical RMI
• RMI Marshaling
• Passing Objects
• The Factory Pattern
• Serialization vs. Remote Reference
• Designing for Latency
• The Transfer Object Pattern
• Controlling Object Location
• Exception Handling
• Database and SQL Fundamentals
• Relational Databases and SQL
• Database, Schema, Tables, Columns and Rows
• SQL Versions and Vendor Implementations
• DDL -- Creating and Managing Database Objects
• DML -- Retrieving and Managing Data
• Sequences
• Stored Procedures
• Using SQL Terminals
• JDBC Fundamentals
• What is the JDBC API?
• JDBC Drivers
• Making a Connection
• Creating and Executing a Statement
• Retrieving Values from a ResultSet
• SQL and Java Datatypes
• Creating and Updating Tables
• Handling SQL Exceptions and Proper Cleanup
• Handling SQLWarning
• Advanced JDBC
• SQL Escape Syntax
• Using Prepared Statements
• Using Callable Statements
• Scrollable Result Sets
• Updatable Result Sets
• Transactions
• Commits, Rollbacks, and Savepoints
• Batch Processing
• Introduction to Row Sets
• Row Sets in GUI and J2EE programming
• Advantages of RowSets
• RowSet Specializations
• Using CachedRowSets
• Conclusion