X120 XML and Java Programming

Course Code: X-120
Recommended Duration: 3 Days

Benefits

Participants learn to use eXtensible Markup Language (XML) from Java programs. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises students will learn to access XML documents via Java.

Audience

Java Developers who need to use XML in Java applications.

Prerequisites

Programming experience with Java. Experience with XML or completion of our "Introduction to XML" course. HTML experience is very useful, but not required.

Recommended Materials

In addition to the student handouts, the students should have access to the following manuals (in print or on-line):
Java 2 SDK Documentation
J2EE SDK Documentation
W3C XML Specification

Major Topics Include

Reading and writing XML
Querying XML
Understanding XML parsers
Available APIs including JAXP
SAX (Simple Application Program Interface)
XML tools, processors, parsers
Structures
Namespaces
Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
XML Schemas
XML and Style sheets
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
XSL (eXtensible Style Language)
XSLT (XSL Transformations)
Document Object Module (DOM)
XPATH (XML Path Language)
XML-aware applications, databases, and servers
XML with Servlets and JSPs
Introduction to Web services
Introduction to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Exercises

There are nine hands-on exercises. Course exercises will be accomplished using industry standard tools such as the Sun Java SDK and Apache Xerces.

Special Note

This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

Course Description

XML and Java Programming