Course Description

Java Server-Side Programming I

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Benefits

Participants will learn object oriented basics, and how to create, test, and deploy programs using the Java language. Students write applications, servlets, and JSPs as part of the hands-on exercises.

Audience

Experienced programmers (COBOL, Visual Basic, or
some other language). A three-day, abbreviated version of this course is available for experienced C++ programmers. 

Prerequisites

Students must have programming experience. Experience with text editor, manipulating files and directories, and using a browser is required.

Recommended Materials

In addition to the student handouts, the students should have access to the following on-line materials:

Java SDK Documentation
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Documentation

• Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• Java Security
• Applications,. Applets, Servlets, JSP
• Compilation and testing
• Object-oriented principles (Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, etc…)
• Packages, naming and Import
• Comments and Javadoc
• Datatypes and variables
• Primitive types and Strings
• Reference vs. non-Reference types
• Classes and Objects: creating new, garbage collection
• Arrays, Vectors, and Collections
• Operators and Expressions
• Conditions: if-then-else, switch
• Loops: for/while/do while
• Exceptions: try, throw, catch
• Inheritance: Subclass/Superclass
• Class vs. Instance variables/methods
• Constructors
• Introduction to Multi-threading
• Java’s built-in class libraries
• Introduction to Java networking
• Introduction to Java File I/O
• Introduction to Java SQL access using JDBC (Oracle or DB2 UDB extensions optionally covered)
• Java Beans
• Servlet basics
• JSP introduction
• VisualAge for Java Overview (opt.)
  

Exercises