Overview
Through a combination of instructor-led discussions and hands on workshops the course will illustrate the methods and techniques for developing applications using IBM’s WebSphere Studio Application Developer v5.1. The course will offer a practical introduction to the Java programming language and discuss Java topics like; class definitions and hierarchies, polymorphism, encapsulation, abstraction, exception handling, Java data types, flow control, conditional testing, single and multidimensional arrays, JDBC access and the creation of Java applications. Each of the topics will be taught while utilizing the basic components of IBM’s toolset; project creation and navigation, source editor and team development, java compiler, debugging and testing tools and the other aspects of IBM’s WebSphere Studio Application Developer IDE
Prerequisites
Each student should have a basic understanding of the Windows environment and a fundamental knowledge of any application programming language. No object-oriented background is required.
Class Format
Lecture and Lab
Audience
Application developers, programmers and other technical professionals transitioning to Java that will be utilizing IBM’s WebSphere Studio Application Developer v5.1 as their IDE development tool
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand the roots and benefits of object
oriented application design
- Illustrate each of the key OO concepts of
inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation and
abstraction.
- Understand a class definition and its components
of data and access methods.
- Depict the major differences between procedural
application development and object-oriented
systems in both design and implementation.
- Utilize the source repository and debugging
features of WSAD v5.1 for managing all java
source testing binary files.
- Understand the role of exception handling
and its implementation.
- Illustrate Java file access considerations
using streams and buffers.
- Depict the role of JDBC in RDBMS database
access and updating.
- Illustrate the basic concepts behind even-driven
programming and its role in an OO application
environment
Course Duration
5 Days
Course outline
Java
Environment
- Defining Java
- Characteristics
- Types of Java programs
- Applets, Applications and Servlets
- Java run-time environment
- Java JDK
- Library structure
- Java API hierarchy
- OO vs Procedural
- Java and OO concepts
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
- Encapsulation
- J2EE architecture
WSAD IDE
- Understanding Eclipse
- Multiple document interface
- WebSphere Studio family
- Plug-in architecture
- Java development features
- Projects and Perspectives
- WSAD folder structure
- Import/Export projects
- Utilizing Perspectives
- Navigation panel
Variables
- Java primitives
- Integer data types
- Assignment statements
- Binary/Unary operators
- Increment/Decrement
- Prefix/Postfix
- Explicit casting
- Floating point
- Character and Boolean
- String
Decision Logic/Looping
- Comparative operators
- if statements
- Statement blocks
- else statement
- Conditional nesting
- Boolean operators
- Conditional AND
- Conditional OR
- Ternary operator
- continue statement
- switch
- break
- for loops
- while looping
- dowhile loops
- continue statement labels
- Labeled breaks
Class Definitions
- Class vs instance variables
- Class vs instance methods
- Java class definition structure
- Parameter passing
- Passing parameters
- Static method calls
- Initialization blocks
- Constructors
- Variable vs Object declaration
- Method overloading
- Java packages
- package statement
- Class access options:
public, private, protected
Java Arrays
- Defining arrays
- Array declaration
- Accessing array elements
- Substituting array length
- Mutli-dimensional arrays
Inheritance
- Java derivation
- Class inheritance
- Inherited methods
- Derived class objects
- Override base methods
- Polymorphic behavior
- Abstract classes
- final methods
- Universal superclass
- Interfaces in Java
- Implementing interfaces
WSAD Debugger
- Debugger role
- Debug perspective
- Debugger preference settings
- Initiating debugger
- Suspended threads
- Execution controls
- Inspecting expressions
- Breakpoints
- Exception handling
- WSAD Scrapbook
Exception Handling
- Defining Exceptions
- Error vs Exception classes
- Runtime exception errors
- throws statement
- try/catch blocks
- finally block
- Execution patterns
- throw statement
- Creating Exception classes
Thread Management
- Defining threads
- Single vs Multi-threading
- Thread lifecycle
- Methods to control threads
- Defining thread subclasses
- Daemon vs User threads
- Use of run method
- Starting and Stopping threads
- Multi-threading vs multi-tasking
- Synchronization
- Use of synchronized
- Using synchronized methods
- Defining deadlocks
Files & Streams
- Defining Streams
- Input/Output operations
- Using File objects
- File access methods
- OutputStream
- FileOutputStream
- ByteArrayOutputStream
- FilterOutputStream
- DataOutputStream
- Buffered output streams
- Character output streams
- PrintWriter
- FileWriter
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