This course will integrate a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to demonstrate the usage of J2EE v1.4 abilities and development capabilities of RAD. This seminar will focus on the transition of experienced developers to RAD for the building of Java Servlets, JSPs, JavaServer Faces, EJB v3.0, role of Web services in EIS development, use of RAD profiling and the use of the Profiling Agent, use of CVS and team development and the ability to develop UML diagrams to model our applications.

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of the internet and have been exposed to the Java programming language.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Java developers, web page designers and other professionals that will be designing, developing and implementing large scale applications using JSPs, JSFs, servlets, EJBs, Web services using Rational Application Developer.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Understand the role of the RAD IDE tool
• Explain the role of RAD projects and perspectives
• Demonstrate the usage of RAD wizards for rapidly developing components, projects and servers
• Illustrate the J2EE 1.4 component model and role in designing server-side applications
• Develop, debug and test servlet and JSP components
• Demonstrate usage of custom JSP tags and tag libraries.
• Illustrate the development of Service Data Objects (SDO) for accessing data fields and linking them to the interface.
• Depict the role of JavaServer Faces for building web pages by assembling reusable components
• Understand the use of CVS for managing team development
• Demonstrate the use of the profiling perspective for analyzing our Java application
• Illustrate UML visualization and modeling in RAD
• Illustrate RAD EAR, WAR and JAR packaging
• Deploy applications to the embedded WebSphere Application Server