Prerequisites:
• A basic knowledge of object-oriented technologies is necessary.

Objectives
Through the richness of its environments and APIs, Java provides solutions for all applications: stand-alone, client-server, Internet, Intranet. Because of this, it is important to be familiar with the different facets of Java and its integration with other environments (databases, XML, middleware, ...).

Object-oriented concepts
• Instances - Messages
• Classes and encapsulation
• Inheritance - Polymorphism

Fundamental principles of Java
• Code portability and virtual machine
• Code downloads and security
• C++-type syntax
• Object programming

The JDK and its tools
• Presentation of the JDK
• Writing source code
• Compilation - Execution
• Other tools
• APIs:
=> java.io
=> java.net
=> java.security
=> java.util
=> java.text

AWT, Swing: Graphical interfaces in Java
• Event management
• Presentation managers
• Swing widgets
• Advanced options

Web components
• Web principles - "thin client" applications
• User follow-up in disconnected mode (HTTP)
• Applets: Java applications which can be run in a browser
• Servlets: the Java equivalent of CGI scripts
• JSPs: server-side scripts

Complementary APIs
• JDBC: accessing relational databases
• JNI: calling C++ native methods
• Other APIs:
=> JNDI
=> JavaMail
=> JMS
=> Jconnector

Programming through components using the JavaBeans norm
• Useful in standard development
• Deployment on an IDE

Presentation of distributed architectures
• Principles
• RMI, JavaIDL (CORBA), EJB
• Advantages and disadvantages

Java and software development
• Development tools
• UML and Java
• XML and Java