Introduction to Java 

and 
Object Oriented Programming 
for 
Web Applications 

Alvin J. Alexander

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Copyright 2009 Alvin Alexander, devdaily.com. 
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 1. Day 1: Object-Oriented Software Development

o 1.1 Credits and Other Material
o 1.2 Why OO?
 1.2.1 Benefits of object-oriented programming
 1.2.2 Symptoms of software development problems
 1.2.3 Root causes of project failure
 1.2.4 Software development best practices
o 1.3 Introduction to OO concepts
 1.3.1 Encapsulation
 1.3.2 Inheritance
 1.3.3 Polymorphism
 1.3.4 Abstraction with objects
 1.3.5 Message passing
o 1.4 UML summary
 1.4.1 Standard diagrams
 1.4.1.1 Use Case diagram
 1.4.1.2 Class diagram
 1.4.1.3 Sequence diagram
 1.4.1.4 Collaboration diagram
 1.4.1.5 Package diagram
 1.4.1.6 State diagram
 1.4.1.7 Activity diagram
 1.4.1.8 Component diagram
 1.4.1.9 Deployment diagram
o 1.5 Object Oriented Software Development
 1.5.1 Why have a process?
o 1.6 The Rational Unified Process (RUP)
 1.6.1 Inception phase
 1.6.1.1 Objectives
 1.6.1.2 Activities
 1.6.1.3 Artifacts
 1.6.2 Elaboration
 1.6.2.1 Purpose
 1.6.2.2 Objectives
 1.6.2.3 Activities
 1.6.2.4 Outcome/Deliverables
 1.6.2.5 Other artifacts
 1.6.3 Construction phase
 1.6.3.1 Objectives
 1.6.3.2 Activities
 1.6.3.3 Deliverables
 1.6.4 Transition
 1.6.4.1 Purpose
 1.6.4.2 Objectives
 1.6.4.3 Activities
o 1.7 A sample process
 1.7.1 Domain modeling
 1.7.1.1 What is a class?
 1.7.1.2 Discover classes
 1.7.1.3 Build generalization relationships
 1.7.1.4 Build associations between classes
 1.7.1.5 Mine legacy documentation for domain classes
 1.7.1.6 Wrapping up domain modeling
 1.7.2 Use case modeling
 1.7.2.1 Actors
 1.7.3 Robustness analysis
 1.7.3.1 Definitions
 1.7.3.2 Key roles of robustness analysis
 1.7.3.3 Closer look at object types
 1.7.3.4 Performing robustness analysis
 1.7.4 Interaction modeling
 1.7.4.1 Introduction
 1.7.4.2 Goals of Interaction Modeling
 1.7.4.3 Sequence Diagrams
 1.7.4.4 Getting Started
 1.7.4.5 Putting Methods on Classes
 1.7.4.6 Completing Interaction Modeling
 1.7.5 Collaboration and State Modeling
 1.7.5.1 Introduction
 1.7.5.2 Collaboration diagrams
  1.7.5.3 State diagrams
 1.7.5.4 Activity diagrams
 1.7.6 Addressing Requirements
 1.7.6.1 Introduction
 1.7.6.2 Objectives
 1.7.6.3 What is a Requirement?
 1.7.6.4 Use Cases and Requirements
 1.7.6.5 Requirements Traceability
 1.7.7 Survey of Design Patterns
 1.7.7.1 Factory pattern example
o 1.8 Agile Methods
o 1.9 The Agile Alliance
o 1.10 Introduction to Extreme Programming
 1.10.1 Risk: The Basic Problem
 1.10.2 Four Variables
 1.10.3 The Cost of Change
 1.10.4 Four Values
 1.10.5 Basic Principles
 1.10.6 Back to Basics
 1.10.7 The Solution
o 1.11 OO Summary
 1.11.1 OO Concepts
 1.11.2 UML

 2. Day 2: The Java Programming Language

o 2.1 Introduction
 2.1.1 Chapter objectives
 2.1.2 Java design goals
 2.1.3 What is Java?
 2.1.4 How/where to get Java
o 2.2 First Steps with Java
 2.2.1 Java Commands and Utilities
 2.2.2 A first application
 2.2.3 main
o 2.3 Variables, constants, and keywords
 2.3.1 Primitive data types
 2.3.2 Literals
 2.3.2.1 boolean literals
 2.3.2.2 char literals
 2.3.2.3 Floating-point literals
 2.3.2.4 String literals
 2.3.3 Constants
 2.3.4 Reserved keywords
o 2.4 Arrays
o 2.5 Strings
 2.5.1 String objects
 2.5.2 StringBuffer class
 2.5.2.1 Exercise
 2.5.2.2 Exercise
o 2.6 Comments and Javadoc
 2.6.1 Types of comments
 2.6.2 Javadoc comment tags
 2.6.2.1 @see
 2.6.2.2 @param
 2.6.2.3 @return
 2.6.2.4 @exception
 2.6.2.5 @deprecated
 2.6.2.6 @author
 2.6.2.7 @version
 2.6.2.8 @since
 2.6.3 A comment example
 2.6.4 Notes on Usage
o 2.7 Flow control and loops
 2.7.1 Introduction
 2.7.2 Objectives
 2.7.3 Statements and blocks
 2.7.3.1 Expressions that can be made into statements
 2.7.3.2 Declaration statements
 2.7.4 if-else
 2.7.5 switch
 2.7.6 while and do-while
 2.7.7 for
 2.7.8 Labels
 2.7.9 break
 2.7.10 continue
 2.7.11 return
 2.7.12 No goto Statement
o 2.8 Classes and objects
 2.8.1 Introduction
 2.8.2 Objectives
 2.8.3 A Simple Class
 2.8.4 Fields
 2.8.5 Access Control and Inheritance
 2.8.6 Creating Objects
 2.8.7 Constructors
 2.8.7.1 Constructor example
 2.8.8 Methods
 2.8.8.1 Parameter values
 2.8.8.2 Using methods to control access
 2.8.9 this
  2.8.10 Overloading methods
 2.8.11 Overriding methods
 2.8.12 Static members
 2.8.13 Initialization Blocks
 2.8.14 Garbage collection and finalize
 2.8.14.1 finalize
 2.8.15 The toString() Method
 2.8.16 Native Methods
o 2.9 Methods and parameters
 2.9.1 Methods
 2.9.1.1 Invoking a Method
 2.9.1.2 The this Reference
o 2.10 Extending Classes
 2.10.1 Introduction
 2.10.2 Objectives
 2.10.3 An extended class
 2.10.4 A simple example
 2.10.5 What protected really means
 2.10.6 Constructors in extended classes
 2.10.6.1 Constructor order dependencies
 2.10.6.2 Constructor phases
 2.10.6.3 Constructor phase example
 2.10.7 Overriding methods, hiding fields, and nested classes
 2.10.7.1 Overriding
 2.10.7.2 The super keyword
 2.10.8 Marking methods and classes final
 2.10.9 The object class
 2.10.9.1 Object's utility methods
 2.10.10 Anonymous classes
 2.10.11 Abstract Classes and methods
 2.10.12 Cloning objects
 2.10.12.1 Three major considerations in writing a clone
method
 2.10.12.2 Four different attitudes a class can have towards
clone
 2.10.13 Extending classes: how and when
 2.10.14 Designing a class to be extended
 2.10.14.1 Bad effects of public fields
 2.10.14.2 Non-final classes have two interfaces
o 2.11 Interfaces
 2.11.1 Introduction
 2.11.2 Objectives
 2.11.3 An example interface
 2.11.3.1 Nested classes and interfaces
 2.11.4 Single inheritance versus multiple inheritance
 2.11.5 Extending Interfaces
  2.11.5.1 Name Conflicts
 2.11.6 Implementing Interfaces
 2.11.7 Using an Implementation
 2.11.8 Marker Interfaces
 2.11.9 When to Use Interfaces
 2.11.9.1 Two Important Differences Between Interfaces and
Abstract Classes
 2.11.9.2 Interface or Abstract Class
o 2.12 Exceptions
 2.12.1 Introduction
 2.12.2 Objectives
 2.12.3 Creating exception types
 2.12.4 throw
 2.12.5 The throws clause
 2.12.5.1 Choices when invoking a method that has a throws
clause
 2.12.6 try, catch, and finally
 2.12.6.1 finally
 2.12.7 When to use exceptions
o 2.13 Packages
 2.13.1 Introduction
 2.13.2 Package Naming
 2.13.3 Package Access
 2.13.4 Package Contents
 2.13.5 Examples

 3. Day 3: Standard Libraries & Server-side Programming

o 3.1 Objectives
o 3.2 IO: Streams and readers
o 3.3 Java networking
 3.3.1 Introduction
 3.3.2 Socket
 3.3.3 ServerSocket
 3.3.4 ServerSocket lifecycle
 3.3.5 URL
 3.3.6 URLConnection
o 3.4 Threads
 3.4.1 Objectives
 3.4.2 Applications without multiple threads
 3.4.3 Thread states
 3.4.4 Creating a threaded class with thread
 3.4.5 Creating a threaded class with the runnable interface
 3.4.6 Thread methods
 3.4.7 Thread references
 o 3.5 JavaBeans
o 3.6 Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
o 3.7 Java Native Interface (JNI)
o 3.8 Collections framework
 3.8.1 Lists
 3.8.2 Maps
 3.8.3 Collection Utilities
o 3.9 Internationalization, localization, and formatting
o 3.10 HTTP protocol
 3.10.1 Request and Response
 3.10.2 Cookies
o 3.11 Servlets and JSPs
 3.11.1 Objectives
 3.11.2 Introduction/Background
o 3.12 Servlets
 3.12.1 Objectives
 3.12.2 Servlet basics
 3.12.3 HelloWorldServlet
 3.12.4 Servlet lifecycle
 3.12.5 HTTPServlet
 3.12.6 HTTPServletRequest
 3.12.7 HTTPServletResponse
o 3.13 JavaServer Pages
 3.13.1 What is a JSP?
 3.13.2 JSP engine/container:
 3.13.3 Translation time and request time
 3.13.4 Scriptlets
 3.13.5 Expressions
 3.13.6 Declarations
 3.13.7 Directives
 3.13.7.1 page directive
 3.13.7.2 taglib directive
 3.13.7.3 include directive
 3.13.8 Implicit objects
 3.13.9 Exception handling
o 3.14 Survey of other server-side Java technologies
 3.14.1 XML
 3.14.2 XSLT
 3.14.3 Enterprise Java Beans
 3.14.4 Java Messaging Service

 4. Day 4: Databases, Best Practices, and Final Project

o 4.1 Databases and JDBC
 4.1.1 Getting things set up
  4.1.2 Connecting to the database
 4.1.2.1 Load the driver
 4.1.2.2 Create the connection
 4.1.3 Statements
 4.1.4 getXXX methods
 4.1.5 Updating the database
 4.1.6 PreparedStatements
 4.1.7 A real method
o 4.2 JUnit
 4.2.1 Is Testing Important?
 4.2.2 Mars Orbiter
 4.2.3 USS Yorktown
 4.2.4 Types of tests
 4.2.5 Unit Testing 101
 4.2.5.1 Definitions of unit testing
 4.2.6 Goals of unit testing?
 4.2.7 Unit Testing with JUnit
 4.2.7.1 How to create unit tests with JUnit
 4.2.8 A sample JUnit session
 4.2.9 Recap
o 4.3 Best practices
o 4.4 Refactoring
o 4.5 Final project

 Bibliography

 
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