Java Essentials for Sun Java CAPS 6 Developers Training  

Getting Started

• Introduction to the Java Technology
• Analyze a simple Java Technology Application
• Use comments in a source program
• Execute a Java technology application

Object Oriented Programming Basics

• Define class, member, attribute, method, constructor, and package
• Describe method overloading
• Use access modifiers private and public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
• Invoke a method on a particular object
• Use the Java technology API online documentation

Java Language Basics

• Understand Java programming language syntax
• Understand primitive and reference type variables
• Create and initialize objects
• Distinguish between instance and local variables
• Use conditional and looping code blocks

Arrays

• Declare and create arrays
• Understand how array elements are initialized
• Determine the number of elements in an array
• Create a multidimensional array

Class Design

• Define inheritance, polymorphism, overriding and virtual method invocation
• Use the access modifiers protected and default (package-friendly)
• Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation

Advanced Class Design

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

Exception Handling and Basic I/O

• Define exceptions
• Use try, catch, and finally statements
• Describe exception categories
• Develop programs to handle your own exceptions
• Perform standard and file-based I/O

Developing Java SE Applications (Collections, Generics, JDBC)

• Describe the general purpose implementations of the core interfaces in the Collections framework
• Use generic collections
• Use type parameters in generic classes
• Write a program to iterate over a collection
• Describe the JDBC programming model

Getting Started with the Java EE technology

• Describe the Java EE 5 platform application programming interfaces (APIs) and supporting services
• Describe the asynchronous communication model
• Understand the Java EE application runtime environment provided by an application server
• Describe how to configure and package Java EE applications

Developing Enterprise Java Bean Components

• Describe the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) components
• Describe the Session Beans programming model
• Develop Stateless Session Beans
• Develop Message Driven Beans
• Develop clients for EJBs

Developing Web Services

• Understand the need for web services
• Describe primary web service specifications: XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
• Describe primary Java API for web services: JAX-WS
• Develop a JAX-WS web service endpoint
• Develop Web Service Clients
• Create a web service from a WSDL file

Applying Java Development Techniques to Java CAPS

• Describe the areas in Java CAPS that require Java development skills
• Understand the relationships between Java EE and Java CAPS
• Describe how a Java Collaboration Definition (JCD) in Java CAPS is implemented
• Understand how to web services are invoked in a business process
• Describe additional Java SE and Java EE features related to Java CAPS