Postgraduate Diploma in Java (EE) Programming via Online Distance Learning

Overview of Java and Programming Technologies

Basic computer hardware and software concepts; Basic object technology concepts, such as classes, objects, attributes, behaviors, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism; The different types of programming languages; A typical Java development environment; Java's role in developing distributed client/server applications for the Internet and the web; The history of the UM - the industry standard object-oriented design language; The history of the Internet and the World Wide Web; Test-driving Java applications;

Java Application Programming

Introduction to Java Applications; Using the javac command to compile Java applications; Using the java command to run Java applications; Displaying Text with printf; Variables and Introducing Arithmetic Operators; Equality and Relational Operators;

Using Classes and Objects

Classes; Objects; Methods and Instance Variables; Declaring Class and Methods; Instantiating an Object of a Class; Declaring a Method with a Parameter; Instance Variables; set Methods and get Methods; Primitive Types vs; Reference Types; Initializing Objects with Constructors; Floating-Point Numbers and Type double;

Control Statements

"if" Single-Selection Statement; "if" … else Double-Selection Statement; while Repetition Statement; Counter-Controlled Repetition; Sentinel-Controlled Repetition; Nested Control Statements; Compound Assignment Operators; Increment and Decrement Operators; Primitive Types; Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition; for Repetition Statement; do… while Repetition Statement; switch Multiple-Selection Statement; break and continue Statements; Logical Operators;

Methods

Static Methods; static Fields and Class Math; Declaring Methods with Multiple Parameters; Notes on Declaring and Using Methods; Method-Call Stack and Activation Records; Argument Promotion and Casting; Java API Packages; Generalized Scaling and Shifting of Random Numbers; Scope of Declarations; Method Overloading;

Arrays

Declaring and Creating Arrays; Examples Using Arrays; Enhanced for Statement; Passing Arrays to Methods; Multidimensional Arrays;

Classes and Objects

Class Case Study; Controlling Access to Members; Referring to the Current Object's Members with the this Reference; Overloaded Constructors; Default and No-Argument Constructors; Composition; Enumerations; Garbage Collection and Method finalize; static Class Members; static Import; final Instance Variables; Creating Packages;

Inheritance

Superclasses and Subclasses; protected Members; Relationship between Superclasses and Subclasses; Creating an Inheritance Hierarchy; Using protected Instance Variables; Using private Instance Variables; Constructors in Subclasses; Software Engineering with Inheritance;

Polymorphism

Polymorphism Examples; Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior; Abstract Classes and Methods; Polymorphic Processing; Operator instanceof and Downcasting; Allowed Assignments between Superclass and Subclass Variables; final Methods and Classes; Creating and Using Interfaces; Declaring Constants with Interfaces; Common Interfaces of the Java API;

Exception Handling

Exception-Handling Overview; Handling ArithmeticExceptions and InputMismatchExceptions; When to Use Exception Handling; Java Exception Hierarchy; finally Block; Stack Unwinding; printStackTrace; getStackTrace and getMessage; Chained Exceptions; Declaring New Exception Types; Assertions;

Database and JDBC

Structured Query Language (SQL); Basic SELECT Query; WHERE Clause; ORDER BY Clause; Merging Data from Multiple Tables: Joining; INSERT INTO Statement; UPDATE Statement; DELETE FROM Statement; Creating Database books in Cloudscape; Manipulating Databases with JDBC; Connecting to and Querying a JDBC Data Source; PreparedStatements; Transaction Processing; Stored Procedures; Batch Processing; Processing Multiple ResultSets or Update Counts; Updatable ResultSets; JDBC; DataSource; Connection Pooling; RowSets;

Applets

Executing an Applet in the appletviewer; Executing an Applet in a Web Browser; Applet Life-Cycle Methods; Initializing an Instance Variable with Method init; Sandbox Security Model;

Multimedia

Loading; Displaying and Scaling Images; Animating Images; Image Maps; Loading and Playing Audio Clips; Playing Video and Other Media with Java Media Framework;

XHTML

Editing XHTML; First XHTML Example; XHTML Validation Service; Headings; Linking; Images; Lists; Tables; Forms; Internal Linking; Meta Elements;

CSS

Inline Styles; Embedded Style Sheets; Conflicting Styles; Linking External Style Sheets; Positioning Elements; Backgrounds; Element Dimensions; Box Model and Text Flow; Media Types; Building a CSS Drop-Down Menu; User Style Sheets;

Servlets

Servlet Overview and Architecture; Interface Servlet and the Servlet Life Cycle; HttpServlet Class; HttpServletRequest Interface; HttpServletResponse Interface; Handling HTTP get Requests; Setting Up the Apache Tomcat Server; Deploying a Web Application; Handling HTTP get Requests Containing Data; Handling HTTP post Requests; Redirecting Requests to Other Resources; Session Tracking; Cookies; Session Tracking with HttpSession; Multi-tier Applications: Using JDBC from a Servlet; HttpUtils Class;

Java Server Pages

JavaServer Pages Overview; A First JavaServer Page Example; Implicit Objects; Scripting; Scripting Components; Scripting Example; Standard Actions; Action; Action; Action; Action; Directives; page Directive; include Directive; Custom Tag Libraries; Createing a Custom Tag; Tag Attributes; Evaluating the Body of a Custom Tag;

Java Server Faces

Java Web Technologies; Servlets; JavaServer Pages; JavaServer Faces; Web Technologies in Netbeans; Creating and Running a Web Application in Netbean; Examining a JSP File; Examining a Page Bean File; Event-Processing Life Cycle; Relationship Between the JSP and Page Bean Files; Examining the XHTML Generated by a Java Web Application; Building a Web Application in Netbeans;

Ajax Enabled Java Server Faces

Accessing Databases in Web Applications; Building a Web Application That Displays Data from a Database; Modifying the Page Bean File for the AddressBook Application; Ajax-Enabled JSF Components; AutoComplete Text Field and Virtual Forms; Configuring Virtual Forms; JSP File with Virtual Forms and an AutoComplete Text Field; Providing Suggestions for a AutoCompleteText Field; Google Maps Map Viewer Component;

XML and RSS

XML Basics; Structuring Data; XML Namespaces; Document Type Definitions (DTDs); W3C XML Schema Documents; XML Vocabularies; MathMLTM; Other Markup Languages; Extensible Stylesheet Language and XSL Transformations; Document Object Model (DOM);

Java RSS Utilities

The RSS Utilities Package; Installing the RSS Taglib; Using the RSS taglib; Extracting Data From RSS Feed; Java RSS Parser;

Multithreading

Java Thread Model ; Creating and Running Threads ; Manipulating Thread State ; Thread Synchronization; Volatile Fields vs; Synchronized Methods ; wait and notify ; join and sleep ; The Concurrency API ; Atomic Operations;

Networking

The OSI Reference Model ; Network Protocols ; The Socket Class ; The ServerSocket Class ; Connecting Through URL Objects ; HTTP and Other TCP Servers ; Datagram Clients and Servers ; Non-Blocking Sockets;

RMI Architecture

Motivation for RMI ; RMI; EJB; and CORBA ; RMI Architecture ; Lifetime of a Remote Method Invocation ; Registries ; Naming and URL Resolution ; Interface Design ; The Remote Interface ; Implementation Classes ; The RemoteObject and RemoteServer Classes ; The UnicastRemoteObject Class ; Server Implementation ; Using the Registry ; Client Implementation ; Code Deployment ; RMI Marshaling ; Passing Objects ; The Factory Pattern ; Serialization vs; Remote Reference ; Designing for Latency ; The Transfer Object Pattern ; Controlling Object Location ; Exception Handling;

JMS

Asynchronous Messaging; The Java Message Service; Point-to-Point Messaging; Publish-and-Subscribe Messaging; JNDI; Connections and Sessions; Working with Queues; Working with Topics; Expiration; Message Content; Message Types; Header Fields; Properties; Message Selectors; Reliability; Message Persistence; JMS from Web Applications; The Component Environment; Acknowledgement and Redelivery; Acknowledgement Modes; Session Recovery; Transactions; What JMS Transactions Are and Aren't; Transaction Pitfalls; Batch Processing; Priority; JMS and EJB: Message-Driven Beans; JMS and Web Services: SOAP Messaging;

Java SE Security

Holistic Security Practices; Threats to the User; The Class Loader and Bytecode Verifier; System Classes and the Core API; SecurityManager and AccessController; Permissions; Implication; CodeSources; Policies; Configuring Java SE Security; Dynamic Policies; Privileged Actions;

Java EE Security

Java EE Servers as Code Hosts; Tomcat Security Configuration; Declaring Roles; Securing URLs; HTTP Authentication Schemes; Securing EJBs; Programmatic Security; JAAS in Java EE; Realms and LoginModules; JACC; Certifying a Java EE Application; HTTPS Configuration; Secure Development Practices: Java EE; Presentation-Tier Vulnerabilities; User Accounts; MVC and Security; Validating User Input; SQL Injection; Cross-Site Scripting; Reflected XSS; Defeating XSS; OWASP; Penetration Testing; Error Handling and Information Leakage; Logging and Auditing;

Java Messaging Service

Asynchronous Messaging; The Java Message Service; Point-to-Point Messaging; Publish-and-Subscribe Messaging; JNDI; Connections and Sessions; Working with Queues; Working with Topics; Expiration; Message Content; Message Types; Header Fields; Properties; Message Selectors; Reliability; Message Persistence; JMS from Web Applications; The Component Environment; Acknowledgement and Redelivery; Acknowledgement Modes; Session Recovery; Transactions; What JMS Transactions Are and Aren't; Transaction Pitfalls; Batch Processing; Priority; JMS and EJB: Message-Driven Beans; JMS and Web Services: SOAP Messaging;

CORBA

The Object Management Architecture; The Object Management Group; CORBA and the Goal of Interoperability; Object Request Brokers; Object Adapters; Interface Definition Language; The Role and Use of IDL; IDL Constructs; Interfaces; Operations; Attributes; IDL Design Issues; Factories; CORBA Services; Naming; Events and Notifications; Transactions and Concurrency; Trader; LifeCycle; Persistent State; Collections; Security; Externalization;

JMX

Management, monitoring; Motivations and requirements for creating a managed and monitored system; Ways to do management monitoring; Implementing management and monitoring with JMX; Understanding the JMX architecture: Instrumentation; JMX Agents; Remote Management; Out-of-the-box JMX Tools: JConsole and monitoring the JVM; Creating Managed Beans (MBeans): Standard MBeans and Dynamic MBeans; Managing a MBeans: Locally and remotely; MBean notification and events; Writing your own management and monitoring console;