The course provides an introduction to Java Applications and the IBM Visual Age development tool.

Audience
Application developers and other technical professionals that will be utilizing Visualage Java as their Object Oriented development platform.

Duration:  4 1/2 days.

Course Abstract.
Through a combination of instructor-led discussions and hands on workshops the course will illustrate the methods and techniques for developing applications using Visualage Java. The course offers a practical introduction to Jaa and the concepts of object-oriented programming and design. Each student will learn how to develop OO Java applications to assist in the creation of their corporations e-Commerce encironment.

Course Objectives:
Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

• Understand the basic Java syntax
• Utilize the variety of Java primitive variable types effeciently
• Learn to develop effective and efficient Java applications
• Use Encapsulation, classification and inheritance in the development of Java Applications
• Writing simple Java classes and organization into inheritance hierarchies
• Define a java class, subclass and superclass
• Use constructors to build class objects
• Create single and multiple dimension arrays
• Use of the Java Foundation Classes for definition of Java classes
• Effective use of objet technology in Java application development
• Use the Integrated Development Environment of Visuualage for coding Java application programs
• Define the components of the Java language; object types, error handling, inheritance and dynamic binding
• Understand the use of synchronized Threads and blocks
• Use the Abstract Window Toolkit
• Develop GUI user interfaces using Java
• Access relational databases using JDBC
• Understand the basic benefits of object-oriented programming

• OO Principles
• Defining Classes
• Logic and Looping
• Class Definitions
• Window Handling
• File I/O
• Exceptions
• JDBC

Prerequisites:
Each student should have a basic understanding of the Windows environment and a fundamental knowledge of applicaiton programming.
 
 

Table of Contents:

Module 1:  Learning Java Environment.
     Module 2: Defining/Declaring Variables
     Module 3:  Decision Logic and Looping
     Module 4: Illustrating Class Definitions
     Module 5: Creating Java Arrays
     Module 6: Defining Inheritance
     Module 7: Exception Handling
     Module 8: Files and Streams
     Module 9: Thread Management
     Module 10: Window Creation
     Module 11: JDBC Database Concepts

Appendix A. Operator Precedence

Appendix B. Java Language Summary

Appendic C. Student Excecise Guide
 

Hardware (Recommended)
CPU: Pentium 200 or equivalent or faster
RAM: 32 MB (64 MB)
Disk: 500 MB (1 GB)

Software
Windows NT v4.0 or later.
IBM Visualage Java v3.0 or later
Java JDK v1.2 or later recommended
Netscape Communicator v4.5 or equivalent
Relational Database Manager ( DB2 UDB or equivalent)

Exercises:
Unit 1: Introduction to Visualage Java
Unit 2: Java Variables
Unit 3: Conditional Expressions
Unit 4: Iterative Processing
Unit 5: Class Definitions
Unit 6: Creating Class Objects
Unit 7: Working with Arrays
Unit 8: Inheritance
Unit 9: Polymorphism