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The topics below are guidelines to the course structures. After speaking with you we will tailor course content to suit your specific needs and arrange course delivery at a time convenient to you.

Java Training Areas:

- Introduction to Java
- Introduction to Java Server Pages (JSP)
- Advanced XML: Java and XML

Introduction to Java Programming

Day One
- Java Byte codes
- Java Virtual machine
- Java applications and the Web
- Java development tools
- Writing a simple program
- Java language syntax and features
- Primitive types and storage classes
- Integers, floating point, characters and Boolean
- Applying If statements
- Using For, While and Do loops
- Using Switch statements
- Using Break and Continue
- Numeric and relational operators
- Conditional precedence and associativity
- Special assignment operators
- Defining and using Strings, Arrays and Methods
- Parameter parsing

Day Two
- Declaring classes
- Encapsulation
- Object creation
- Constructors
- Member access
- Overloading
- Access levels and modifiers
- Extending existing classes
- Overriding methods
- Creating templates
- Keeping classes organized
- The class library
- Input/output streams
- Java support for networking

Day Three
- Responding to user events
- Canvases
- Containers
- Buttons
- Colors
- Text, fonts, drawing and shapes
- List component
- Check box
- Scroll bars
- Entry fields

Day Four
- Features of the Applets class
- Sub-classing the applets
- The “Hello World” Applet
- The Web browser
- The Applet viewer
- Incorporating Applets into a Web page
- HTML basics
- Controlling an Applet from HTML.

Introduction to Java Server Pages (JSP) Programming

Java Server Pages (JSP) Basics
- Introducing Java Server Pages and the JSP Environment
- HTTP and Servlet Basics
- JSP Processing

JSP Application Development
- Using Scripting Elements
- Introducing JavaBeans
- Sharing Data: JSP Security, Authentication, and Integrity
- Database Access
- Error Handling and Debugging
- Performance
- Presenting XML With JSP
- Integrating Legacy Applications: Wrappers and Interfaces
- Integrating Other Extensions and Internationalization

Professional JSP Design, Development, and Implementation
- Web Application Models and Advanced Architectures
- Advanced Database Programming
- Custom Tags: The Building Blocks of the Java Standard Tag Library
- Enterprise JavaBeans and JSP

Advanced XML: Java and XML

XML and Java
- Java and XML
- XML Syntax
- Document Type Definition
- Parsers
- Building Your Own Parser
- SAX Parsers
- DOM Parsers
- SAX vs DOM
- JAXP
- Validating vs Non-Validating

Parsing XML with SAX
- SAX Basics
- Parsing with SAX Using JAXP
- SAX Event Methods
- ContentHandler
- Parsing Elements
- Parsing Characters and Whitespace
- Error Handling
- SAX Parser Usage

Parsing XML with DOM
- Document Object Model
- Document Object
- Parsing with DOM Using JAXP
- Key DOM Interfaces
- Node
- Elements
- NodeList and NamedNodeMap
- Text Nodes

Building XML with DOM
- Creating an Empty DOM Object
- Building the Tree
- Cloning Nodes
- Combining Document Objects
- Writing DOM to XML

Validating XML
- Validation in XML
- Validation with DTDs
- Whitespace with Validation
- Validation with XML Schemas
- Schema Data Types
- Validating with SAX
- Whitespace and Validation
- Validating with DOM
- Parser Errors
- JAXP and XML Schemas

Java and XML Data Binding
- Why Not SAX or DOM?
- How JAXB Fits In
- How JAXB Works
- The JAXB Binding Schema
- Generating the Classes
- Marshalling and Unmarshalling
- Other Binding APIs

Basic SOAP
- SOAP Overview
- The SOAP Envelope
- SOAP Over HTTP
- A SOAP Server
- The Deployment Descriptor
- A SOAP Client
- Complex Data Types
- Complex Data Types: Client Code

Industrial Strength SOAP
- SOAP Messaging
- The Messaging Server
- Deployment
- The Messaging Client
- Web Services
- WSDL
- UDDI

XML Transformations with XSLT
- XML Transformations
- XSLT Stylesheets
- TrAX
- XSLT Processors
- XSLT in Servlets
- XSL Formatting Objects

Distributed Applications with XML
- Distributed Applications Overview
- Socket Programming with XML
- Servlets and JavaServer Pages
- Creating XML from Textual Data
- Creating XML from Relational Data
- JDBC
- Extracting XML from a ResultSet
- Inserting XML Into an RDBMS

JDOM
- Why JDOM?
- JDOM Packages
- Getting Started with JDOM
- JDOM Parsing
- Elements and Attributes
- Outputting from JDOM
- Transforming JDOM using XSLT