Developing Applications With the Java SE 6 Platform

This Developing Applications with the Java SE Platform course takes you through the process of designing a multi-tier application in a case study approach. Learn more about requirements gathering, analysis and design and development of the key components of the application.

Learn To:

• Perform the course lab exercises using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
• Design the application with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
• Create a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that supports logging.
• Implement database connections with JDBC.
• Implement testing with JUnit.
• Create both client and server components.
• Implement threading to enabling scaling of your application.
• Use Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to communicate between objects on your client and server components.

Java SE 6 Technology

This course features the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) technology and utilizes the Java SE Development Kit 6 (JDK 6) product.

Students Who Can Benefit from this Course

• Developers continuing their education of the development of enterprise multi-tier applications (after completing the Java Programming Language course)
• Developers pursuing the Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform certification

Live Virtual Class Format

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Audience
Course Topics Introduce the BrokerTool Application

• Explain the problem statement of the BrokerTool application
• Creating and populating the StockMarket Database
• Executing SQL Statements on the StockMarket Database

Apply the Model View Controller (MVC) Design Pattern

• Explain design patterns
• Explain the MVC design pattern
• Analyze how the MVC design pattern can be used in applications
• Add MVC Interaction Code

Implement Unit Testing

• Develop unit test cases using JUnit
• Execute Unit test cases
• Open the InfoTool Project
• Prepare JUnit Test Cases for the InfoTool Project
• Analyze the JUnit Test Cases of the InfoController class of the InfoTool Project
• Create and Analyze Test Methods Inside InfoToolTest.java File
• Create a TestSuite of all the Test Cases of the InfoTool Project

Design the BrokerTool Application

• Apply the MVC design pattern
• Begin the analysis and design of the project under study
• Develop a build plan for the project
• Create the MVC Participants
• Establish the BrokerTool MVC Baseline

Implement the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API

• Describe the JDBC API
• Explain how using the abstraction layer provided by the JDBC API makes a database front end portable across platforms
• Describe the five major tasks involved with the JDBC programmer's interface
• State the requirements of a JDBC driver and its relationship to the JDBC driver manager
• Describe the data access objects (DAO) pattern and its applicability to a given scenario
• Identify the Workflow and Object Interactions
• Implement a Database-Connected Broker Model by Using the DAO Pattern

Create Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

• Apply the principles of good GUI design
• Design and implement a GUI for the project using Matisse
• Apply the Composite Design pattern to build the BrokerTool GUI
• Use JTable and JTabbedPane classes in your application to build a sophisticated GUI
• Add AllCustomerTablePanel to the Palette Window and drag-and-drop to the BrokerGui Class
• Create the CustomerPanel Class, add to the Palette Window and drag-and-drop to the BrokerGui Class
• Change the Order of the Tabs
• Compile and Test the BrokerGui Class

Handle GUI Events

• Implement a view class
• Implement a controller class
• Create the BrokerTool view Class
• Create the BrokerTool Controller Class
• Compile and Testing the BrokerGui Class
• Add Event Handling Functionality

Log Messages in GUI

• Use the logging API
• Examine a logging example
• Write a custom handler
• Set filters to a particular handler
• Create the Custom Handler Class

Implement Multiple-Tier Design

• Compare the BrokerTool two-tier design with the three-tier design for the same application
• Explain how you can use the Java technology package, java.net to implement networking applications
• Demonstrate how to use the Command design pattern in the application
• Apply the Strategy design pattern to create reusable code
• Describe how you can implement the network client
• Describe how you can implement the network server

Implement Advanced Multiple-Tier Design

• Use the new Java concurrency APIs to create a multithreaded server
• Examine a thread pool
• Identify integrity problems in multithreaded servers
• Create a Generic Network Client Class

Communicate With Remote Objects Using Java RMI

• Create remote objects
• Use Java RMI to create a multi-tier application
• Deploy a Java RMI Implementation of the BrokerModel Interface
• Create a Java RMI Implementation of the BrokerView Interface

Course Objectives

• Apply Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern to create reusable classes
• Implement unit testing using JUnit
• Implement a program from the ground up that could be used in a commercial intranet application
• Develop classes to connect programs to Structured Query Language (SQL) database systems using the core aspects of the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) (API)
• Organize and set up the GUI generation and event handling to support a Java technology project
• Implement the Logging API to generate log messages in GUI
• Create two-tier and three-tier Java technology applications
• Create a multithreaded server
• Create remote objects using Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI)