Advanced Programming (JAVA)

These are the notes of Advanced Programming (JAVA) with course code CMP 363 abided by the syllabus of Pokhara University for BCIS. Click on the links below to check out the notes.

Course Contents

Unit I: Introducing the AWT (3 hours)

AWT classes

Window fundamentals

  • Component
  •  Container
  •  Panel
  •  Window
  •  Frame

Working with frame Windows:

  •  Setting the Windows dimensions
  •  Setting a Windows title
  •  Hiding and showing
  •  Closing a Frame Windows

Unit II: Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus (6 hours)

AWT Control Fundaments

Adding and removing control

Responding to controls

  •  Labels, buttons, checkboxes, CheckboxGroup choice, lists, scroll bars, textfield, textarea,

Understanding Layout managers

  •  FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout, CardLayout, GridBadLayout

Menus Bars and Menus, Dialog boxes, FileDialog boxes

Unit III: Event handling (6 hours)

Two event handling mechanisms

The delegation event model

  •  Events
  •  Event sources
  •  Event listeners
  •  Event classes (ActionEvent  class,  Adjustment  Event  class,    ContainerEvent  class, FocusEvent class, ItemEvent class, MouseEvent class, KeyEvent class, TextEvent class, WindowEvent class)

Sources of Events

Event Listener Interfaces

  •  ActionListener,  Adjustment  Listener,  Container  Listener,  FocusListener, ItemListener, MouseListener, WindowListener ,KeyListener, TextListener

Using Delegation event model

Handling mouse events

Handling keyboard events

Handling ActionEvent of all components

Adapter classes, inner classes

Unit IV: Introducing Swing (3 hours)

  • The origins of Swing, Swing is built on the AWT
  • Two Key Swing Features
  • The MVC connection
  • Components and containers

Unit V: Exploring Swing: (3 hours)

  • JLabel and  ImageIcon,  JTextField,  JButtons,  JToggleButton,  checkboxes,  radio buttons, JTabbedPane, JList, JComboBox, JTable
  • Two types of applets

Unit VI: The Applet Class (4 hours)

  • Applet basics
  • The Applet class
  • Applet Architecture
  • An applet skeleton
  • The HTML applet tag
  • Passing parameters to applets

Unit VII: JDBC (6 hours)

Database Basics

Structured Query Language

  •  Creating a Table
  •  Inserting Data
  •  Updating records in the table
  •  Retrieving records from a table
  • Deleting records

Database Drivers

  •  JDBC-ODBC bridge
  •  Party Java Partly Native Driver
  •  Intermediate Database Access Driver Server

JDBC API

  •  Creating a table
  •  Inserting Data in table
  •  Reading Data
  •  Deleting Data
  •  Prepared Statement

Unit VIII: Introduction to J2EE (3 hours)

Core J2EE Technologies

Enterprise Application Architecture

  •  2-Tier Architecture
  • 3- Tier Architecture
  • N-Tier Architecture
  • Enterprise Architecture

J2EE Application Servers

Unit IX: Servlet Programming (7 hours)

HTTP

  •  GET Request
  •  POST Request

Server Side of the Web Application

Web Container

  •  Structure of a web application

Servlet Technology

  •  Servlet

Deployment Descriptor

Steps for writing a servlet

Servlet initialization

Reading HTML form data

Session Management

  •  Creating session
  •  Storing data in session
  •  Reading the data from the session
  • Destroying the session

Request dispatching

  •  The forward() method
  •  The include() method

Unit X: JSP programming (7 hours)

1. JSP Basics

  •  JSP Directives
  • JSP Declarations

2. Implicit Objects

3. Java Beans in JSP

  •  jsp:useBEan
  •  jsp:setProperty
  •  jsp:getProperty

Basic Text

Kosuri Phani, Java & J2EE Made Easy, North Carolina: Lulu Publications.

Reference

Herbert Schildt, Java the Complete Reference, New Delhi: McGraw-Hill Education.