Java Technologies for the Real-world Java Developers with Passion!  Online Course

 Sang Shin, sang.shin@sun.com, Sun Microsystems, www.javapassion.com
From September 22nd, 2006:

Message to potential attendees

The 1st session will start from June 11th, 2008.  This course covers advanced topics of Java progamming.  You are assumed to have taken Basic Java programming (with Passion!) course or have some Java programming experience. Just like other online courses I teach, this course is offered online only.   Just to set the expectation correctly, there is no real-time webcasting.  The dates specified are mostly for helping people self-pace themselves.

How to register for this course

In order to register for this course, all you have to do is sending a blank email to the following email alias.  

• advancedavaprogramming-subscribe@googlegroups.com

Basically, when you send a blank email to the above, you are subscribing our new class alias (advancedavaprogramming@googlegroups.com).  The postings to this alias can be seen from class forum.

If you have any further questions...

For further questions, please see course FAQ below.  Please see the FAQ before posting questions or sending an email directly to me.

• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Topics

1. Performance tuning
• Performance tuning: Concepts and methodologies
• Performance profiling
• Tips for writing performance-minded Java programs
  
2. Memory management
• Garbage collection strategies
• Memory profiling and Heap analysis
  
3. Management and Monitoring
• JConsole
• JMX
  
4. Testing
• Testing strategies and best practices
• Unit testing with JUnit testing framework ()
  
5. Code analysis
• Java code analysis tool - FindBugs ()
• Java code analysis tool -PMD ()
  
6. Debugging
• Java platform debugging architecture ()
• Java application debugging ()
• JDK command line and visual debugging tools (VisualVM)
• Remote debugging
  
7. Java Design patterns
• Java design patterns
8. Build management and versioning
   
• Ant
  
• CVS
  
• Subversion
• Maven
  
9. Java SE 6 Features
• Java SE 6 Feature Overview -
  
• Scripting
10. Security
• Java security
  
11. Modeling
• UML
12. Hot technologies
    
• Beans Binding

Java Security

• Presentation
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 1056_javasecurityzip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javasecurity/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log

Java Performance Tips

• Presentation
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1049_javaperformancetips.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javaperformancetips/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• Performance book from java.sun.com
  

Application Profiling on Memory Usage

• Presentation
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 5116_nbprofilermemory.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/nbprofilermemory/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• NetBeans profiler website
• NetBeans profiler blog
• NetBeans profiler documentation
  
• Gregg Sporar's blog
• Profiler 6.0 help: Using HeapWalker from profiler.netbeans.org
  

Application Profiling on Performance

• Presentation
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  

JMX

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• Getting Started with JMX Monitoring in NetBeans 5.0
• Adding Java Management Extensions (JMX) Instrumentation to a Java Application
  
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• JMX Module project home site
  

JUnit Testing framework

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1048_javajunit.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• JUnit Howto article from admc.com
  

Load Testing with JMeter

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1048_javajunit.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• Using a Load Generator in NetBeans IDE from netbeans.org
  

Java Platform Debugger Architecture

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1048_javajunit.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• Java Platform Debugger Architecture from java.sun.com
  

Debugging Java Applications

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1048_javajunit.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• Troubleshooting Java SE from java.sun.com
• Troubleshooting Guide for Java SE 6 with HotSpot VM from java.sun.com
  
• Java Platform Debugger Architecture homesite
  
• Java debugging tutorial from digilife.be
• Java SE 5 trouble-shooting guide from java.sun.com

Remote Debugging

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1048_javajunit.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• T

Java SE command line debugging tools

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab and homework
• 1057_javase6tools.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javajunit/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
• Resources
• VM debugging options from java.sun.com
• HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError option blog
  
• Visual VM project homesite from java.net
• Monitoring and Managing Java SE 6 Platform Applications article from java.sun.com
• Querying Java heap with OQL blog by A. Sundararajan
  

UML

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice 8 file
• Lab 1
  
• 8105_nbeuml.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/nbeuml/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Lab 2
  
• 8110_nbeuml2.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/nbeuml2/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Resources
• UML: Reserve Engineering a Java Application tutorial from netbeans.org (Oct. 2007)
  

Java Design Patterns

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 1052_javapatterns.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javapatterns/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• Singleton pattern article from javacoffeebreak.com
• Abstract factory pattern from wikipedia.org
• Factory method pattern from wikipedia.org
• Pattern Summaries  article from developer.com
• List of Patterns articles from java201.com
• Gang of Four Design Patterns
  

ANT

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

CVS

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

Subversion

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

Maven

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

Java SE 6 Features Overview

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 1512_javase6features.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javase6features/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• Java SE 6 home site in Sun Developer Network (SDN)
• Java SE 6 Platform at a Glance from java.sun.com
  
• JDK 6 development community and openjdk community
• Java SE 6 Top Ten Features from blogs.sun.com
  
• Java SE 6 First Impressions article from www.devx.com
• JSR 270 specification in JCP

Java SE 6 Scripting

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 1513_javase6scripting.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javase6scripting/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• Scripting for the Java Platform article (July, 2006) from java.sun.com
• Scripting for the Java Plaform article (April, 2006) from java.net

Concurrency in Swing and SwingWorker

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 8105_nbeuml.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javaswing/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• Concurrency in Swing in java.sun.com

Beans Binding

• Presentation
  
• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file
• Lab and homework
• 8105_javaf3.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from <unzip-directory>/javaswing/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Homework
• Change log
  
• Resources
• Beans binding JSR home site
• NBDemoTicker from wiki.netbeans.info
• Beans Binding Example sample code from netbeans.org
  

Class Related Information

Prerequisites

• Some programming experience in other languages such as C or C++ would be useful but not required
  

Software needed

• Java Standard Development Kit (JDK™) version 5.0 (download) or 6.0
  
• Select JDK 5.0 Update x (3rd choice in the page)
  
• If you already have installed JDK 5.0, you can skip this. (You can check it by typing "java -version" on terminal window.)
  
• The name of the installation file is as following (for JDK 5.0 update 7)
• jdk-1_5_0_0x-windows-i586-p.exe (Windows)
• jdk-1_5_0_0x-linux-i586.bin (Linux)
• jdk-1_5_0_0x-solaris-i586.sh (Solaris x86)

• NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 (download) or 6.0
  
• Any download option in the above page will be fine for taking this course
  
• When you install NetBeans IDE 5.0, it will ask you which JDK you want to use.  Select the JDK 5.0.

OS platforms you can use to take this course

• Windows
• Solaris x86, Solaris Sparc
• Linux
• Mac OS X