Advanced Java

Syllabus

Introduction to JAVA Technology

• Introduction to JAVA Technology
• JAVA Language Features
• What is JAVA bytecode? What is JVM?
• Different Editions of JAVA
• Writing the “Hello World” command-line Application
• Understanding the “main()” method
• Setting path & classpath

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• Abstraction
• Implementing OO Concepts: Defining
• Classes Variables and methods as members of a class

Language Basics I

• Keywords
• Primitive Data types
• Legal & Illegal
• Identifiers Different
• types of Literals String Literals
• Different types of JAVA
• Comments Input and Output
• Declaring constants using “final” keyword

Language Basics II

• Operators
• Expressions, Statements, and Blocks Control Flow Statement
• Understanding Polymorphism
• Types of polymorphism Overloading the methods Understanding Inheritance
• Implementing single inheritance using “extends” – keyword
• Implementing dynamic polymorphism Abstract methods & Abstract classes

Interface

• Interface
• Different types of access specifiers Understanding the need of packages Creating a package
• Compiling and Running Code from Packages Importing a package
• Understanding the proper use of “protected” keyword

Arrays And String

• Declaring Array Variables & Allocating an Array Initializing an Array
• Counting elements in the Array Single & Multi-dimensional Arrays Anonymous Arrays
• Using for-each loop with Arrays Working with Strings

Exception Handling

• What is Exception Exception class-hierarchy
• Understanding the difference between checked &
• unchecked exception
• Handling exceptions:- using try-catch-finally blocks Proper use of throw and throws clauses
• Chained Exception

Basic I/O

• I/O Streams File I/O

Introduction to Java EE

• Introduction to Java EE Important J2EE API J2EE Architecture
• Introduction to EE Components EE Containers

JDBC API

• Introduction to JDBC API Types of JDBC Drivers
• Executing statements, prepared statements and
• callable statements Row Sets DatabaseMetaData ResultsetMetaData JDBC Transactions Save Points Isolation Levels

HTML

• Introduction To HTML Markup Tags
• HTML Comments Character entities Working with CSS
• Invoking JavaScript methods for event handling

JAVA EE Web Application & its working

• A conceptual view of JAVA EE Web Application Web Application Structure
• ServletContext Deployment Descriptor
• Deployment Descriptor Elements Servlets & dynamic content Advantage of Servlets
• Life cycle of a Servlet Packages & Classes Generic & Http Servlets
• Declaring & Mapping Servlets in web.xml Retrieving Http Headers & Form Data Request and Response
• Request dispatching & response redirection

Session Management

• Session Management
• Different ways to session management URL Rewriting : Advantage & Disadvantage
• Hidden Form Fields : Advantage & Disadvantage Cookies: Session-Level & Persistent
• Using HttpSession

Servlet Listeners

• Introduction To Servlet Listeners
• Servlet Filter

• Servlet Filter Overview Filter API
• Using Filters Filter Processing Filter Chain
• Mapping of a filter in web.xml
• Using filters to modify a request or response

Getting Started with JSP

• Shortcomings of Servlets : Solution is JSP JSP Life Cycle
• JSP Elements JSP Directives
• Scripting Elements
• Built-in Action Elements Using Beans in JSP

JSP Custom Tags

• An Overview
• Using a tag library in a web application Custom Tag API
• Defining a Tag Handler class Configuring the .tld file More about prefix & URI

Using JSTL

• Using JSTL
• Different Libraries in JSTL JSTL Expression Language
• Implicit Object & Operators in EL Data Objects & the JSTL EL
• Using Core Tag Library
• Accessing DB using SQL Tag Library

Introduction to Struts Framework

• MVC Architecture Application Flow Components
• Model, View and Controller
• Building a simple web application using struts

Struts Validator Framework

• Introduction to validator plugin
• Using different types of validators Configuring the application Applying validators
• Building custom validators Declarative exception handling

Struts Tiles Framework

• Introduction to tiles framework Building tiles
• Configuring struts-config.xml file Creating the template page Using tiles module-wise

Prerequisite

No Prerequisite