Building Applications with VisualAge for Java

Course Description

This five-day course details the use of IBM VisualAge for Java 1.0 Enterprise for building large-scale Java enterprise applications (not applets). Participants design and create visual and non-visual JavaBeans for the user interface, controller, and domain model layers of a typical application architecture. To access a relational database, participants generate VisualAge database access JavaBeans using VisualAge2s Enterprise Access Builders and construct relational database brokers. The built-in configuration management system and application packaging are covered as well. Participants work together on a comprehensive team project. The course format is 40% lecture and 60% hands-on computer time.

Audience

Developers who will be designing and programming large-scale object-oriented applications in VisualAge for Java

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the Introduction to VisualAge for Java, >or six months of VisualAge for Java experience

 

Day 1	Day 2
Introduction to Java VisualAge for Java environment Review of basic object-oriented concepts Messages and methods Classes and instances Java data types Variables and literals Type conversion and casting Operators and precedence Projects and packages Creating classes Instance variables Creating methods Return values	The Inspector Comments and Javadoc Creating subclasses The Object class Browsers Searching in VisualAge Java Parameter passing Method overloading The Debugger
Day 3	Day 4
The Sun Java class library The Math class The Date and Calendar classes Strings StringBuffers Blocks Conditionals and loops Creating a constructor Default constructors Constructor overloading	Designing inheritance hierarchies Creating interfaces Common Java interfaces Collections overview Vectors and enumerations Wrapper classes Hashtables Basic exception handling Access control Class variables and methods
Day 5
Creating Java applications Visual programming and beans Visual Composition page Bean palette Connections	Streams File streams Creating Java applets Applets and HTML Import and export