Java Technology and Applications

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Java Technology and Applications
240-527 CoE Masters Programme, PSUSemester 2,
2005-2006
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0. Preliminaries
Who I am Andrew Davison CoE, Info. Eng.
Research Lab (Rm 101) ad_at_fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th

• Objective
• to give some background on the course

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Overview

• 1. Outline of the Course
• 2. Prerequistes
• 3. Main Topics
• 4. Meeting Times / Locations
• 5. Workload
• 6. Course Materials
• 7. Other Materials

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1. Outline of the Course

• To develop skills in advanced Java client/server
  programming, centred around the Java 2 Enterprise
  Edition (J2EE).
• J2EE utilises many advanced features of Java,
  which we will look at before getting to J2EE
  itself.

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2. Prerequistes (for Masters)

• It will greatly help you if you know
  basic/intermediate Java
• e.g. OOP, event model, exceptions, GUIs
• it is 240-321 Advanced CPT
• But, I will spend 2-3 weeks going through OOP in
  Java
• the rest is left to you!

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• It will help you if you know the basic ideas of
  client/server systems
• e.g. the 3-tier model, middleware
• this is usally taught in 240-322 "Client/Server
  Distributed Systems", but it's not on this
  semester
• But, I will try to explain the necessary ideas as
  they come up, or point you to extra reading.

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Prerequistes for Undergraduates

• I will not let an undergraduate student do this
  subject unless they have passed 240-321 (or
  similar).

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3. Main Topics

• 1. Java Introduction/Reminder
• background, apps and applets, classes and
  objects, OOP
• 2. Support Tools/Technologies
• JDBC, XML, overview of HTTP

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• 3. Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs)
• using Jakarta Tomcat as a test platform
• 4. RMI
• remote method invocation
• the mechanism used by EJBs in part 5

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• 5. J2EE
• What is it?, JBoss as a test platform
• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)
• session beans, entity beans

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4. Meeting Times / Locations
90 minutes / class

• Tuesday 11 -- 12.30 R301_2
• Friday 11 -- 12.30 R301_2
• Times/locations can change if you ask me!

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5. Workload ( of total score)

• Mid-tern Exam 35
• in week 7, 10th - 18th December 2 hours
• Project 20 J2EE application
• 2 weeks probably weeks 13-14
• Final Exam 45
• in 20th February -- 3rd March 3 hours

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Non-Attendence Penalty

• I may take registration at the start of a class.
• If someone is not there, they lose 1 (unless
  they have a good excuse).
• A maximum of 10 can be lost
• deducted from your final mark

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6. Course Materials

• I will hand out one copy of my slides
• you should make copies of them
• Online materials
• http//fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/
  Software.coe/Adv20Java/
• includes these slides, code examples

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• I'm making large changes to the course material
  this semester
• so I will be handing out the slides part-by-part
• so they are not all present at the Web site yet

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7. Other Materials

• As we reach each new topic, I will mention books,
  URLs, software that you might find useful.
• Most of the software tools we will be using are
  already here at Aj. Somchai's excellent Java
  Website
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/

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• The current version of Java 2 (known as J2SE 1.5
  or 5.0) and its documentation are at
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/ RefImp.htmlJ2SE
• You should get J2SE 5.0_05 SDK, WindowsFull (57.5
  MB) and the 5.0 documentation (43.5 MB)

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• The Java tutorial is at
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/
  FreeOnline.html
• the first entry under the heading "Sun Press"
• get the zipHTML version (14.4 MB)

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Useful Software

• Tomcat 5.5
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/
  OpenSource.htmlTomcat
• JBoss 4.0.1
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/
  OpenSource.htmlJBoss

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Useful Books

• Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Enterprise Java
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/ FreeOnline/ThinkInEnt
  erpriseJava/ TIEJv1.1.zip
• Many good ones in
• http//java.coe.psu.ac.th/ForMember/
  Books.htmlJ2EE
• e.g. Teach Yourself J2EE in 21 Days,
  Martin Bond et al

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• More specialised books, which we'll use later
• Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Marty Hall
• Enterprise JavaBeans, Richard Monson-Haefel
• JBoss 3.0 Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans Bill
  Burke and Sacha Labourey