Prerequisites

Suggested Prerequisite

• Be competent in creating programs in any programming language
• Understand object-orientedprinciples
• Create and edit text files using a text editor
• Fundamentals of the JavaProgramming Language (CDJ-110-SE6)

Audience

• Developer

Course Objectives

• Implement input/output (I/O)functionality to read from and write to data and text files andunderstand advanced I/O streams
• Create a simple TransmissionControl Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networked client thatcommunicates with a server through sockets
• Create multi-threaded programs
• Create Java technologyapplications that leverage the object-oriented features of theJava language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, andpolymorphism
• Execute a Java technologyapplication from the command line

Course Topics

Getting Started

• Examine Java technology
• Execute a Java technologyapplication
• Analyze a simple Java technologyapplication

Object-Oriented Programming

• Invoke a method on a particularobject
• Define modeling concepts:abstraction, encapsulation, and packages
• Use the access modifiers privateand public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
• Define class, member, attribute,method, constructor, and package
• Use the Java technology APIonline document ation
• Discuss Java technologyapplication code reuse

Identifiers, Keywords, and Types

• Declare variables of class type
• Describe the significance of areference variable
• Use comments in a source program
• Distinguish between valid andinvalid identifiers
• Use the eight primitive types
• Construct an object using newand describe default initialization
• Define literal values fornumeric and textual types
• Define the terms primitivevariable and reference variable

Expressions and Flow Control

• Identify boolean expressions andtheir requirements in control constructs
• Use if, switch, for, while, anddo constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue asflow control structures in a program
• Recognize, describe, and useJava software operators
• Distinguish between instance andlocal variables
• Recognize assignmentcompatibility and required casts in fundament al types
• Describe how to initializeinstance variables
• Distinguish between legal andillegal assignments of primitive types

Arrays

• Explain how to initialize theelements of an array
• Declare and create arrays ofprimitive, class, or array types
• Write code to copy array valuesfrom one array to another
• Explain why elements of an arrayare initialized
• Determine the number of elementsin an array
• Create a multidimensional array

Advanced Class Features

• Use the static import statement
• Create and use enumerated types
• Create and use an interface
• Create abstract classes andmethods
• Create final classes, methods,and variables
• Create static variables,methods, and initializers

Exceptions and Assertions

• Define exceptions
• Distinguish appropriate andinappropriate uses of assertions
• Enable assertions at runtime
• Describe exception categories
• Use try, catch, and finallystatements
• Use assertions
• Identify common exceptions
• Develop programs to handle yourown exceptions

Collections and Generics Framework

• Describe the general purposeimplementations of the core interfaces in the Collectionsframework
• Create natural and customordering by implementing the Comparable and Comparator interfaces
• Examine the legacy collectionclasses
• Examine the enhanced for loop
• Write a program to iterate overa collection
• Refactor existing non-genericcode
• Use generic collections and typeparameters in generic classes
• Examine the Map interface

I/O Fundamentals

• Construct node and processingstreams, and use them appropriately
• Write a program that usescommand-line arguments and system properties
• Distinguish readers and writersfrom streams, and select appropriately between them
• Serialize and deserializeobjects
• Examine the Properties class

Console I/ O and File I/O

• Read data from the console
• Write data to the console
• Describe files and file I/O

Building Java GUIs Using the Swing API

• Identify the Swing packages
• Examine layout managers
• Describe the Swingsingle-threaded model
• Build a GUI using Swing components
• Examine top-level,general-purpose, and special-purpose properties of container
• Examine components
• Describe the JFC Swingtechnology
• Describe the GUI buildingblocks: containers, components, and layout managers

Handling GUI-Generated Events

• Examine the Java SE event model
• Describe GUI behavior
• Define events and event handling
• Develop event listeners
• Determine the User action thatoriginated an event
• Describe concurrency inSwing-based GUIs and describe the features of the Swing Workerclass

GUI-Based Applications

• Describe how to construct a menubar, menu, and menu items in a Java GUI
• Understand how to change thecolor and font of a component

Threads

• Use wait and notify tocommunicate between threads
• Use synchronized to protect datafrom corruption
• Describe the difficulties thatmight arise when multiple threads share data
• Control the execution of athread and write platform-independent code with threads
• Define a thread
• Create separate threads in aJava technology program, controlling the code and data that areused by that thread

Networking

• Develop code to set up thenetwork connection
• Use ServerSocket and Socketclasses to implement TCP/IP clients and servers
• Understand TCP/IP

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