Rapid Application Development

Module 1: Overview of RAD

• RAD workspace overview

• Creating projects

• Edit, compile, and run Java applications

• Debugging Java applications

Module 2: Team Development Using CVS

• Concurrent Version System (CVS) overview

• Installing CVS

• Creating repository

• Adding projects to repository

• Committing changes

• Update from repository

• Comparison and merge

• Resolving conflicts

• Creating versions

Module 3: Testing and Performance Tuning

• Creating JUnit tests

• Creating JUnit test suites

• Profiling tooling overview

• Profiling perspective

• Profiling Java applications

• Monitors view

• Profiling console view

• Statistical and Graphical Profiling views

• Sequence diagrams views

• Identifying application bottlenecks

Module 4: Visual Editor for Java

• Overview of Visual Editor for Java

• Adding visual components

• Code Synchronization

• Externalizing strings

• Event handling

• Using Code Template to add event listeners

• Testing Visual JavaBeans

Module 5: Eclipse Overview

• Eclipse platform architecture

• Eclipse API

• Write Plug-ins manually

• Install a plug-in

Module 6: Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)

• PDE perspective and concepts

• PDE project structure

• Creating plug-in with PDE

• Debug and run a plug-in

Module 7: Developing Session Beans with RAD

• JEE Perspective overview

• Creating enterprise application and EJB project

• EJB project structure

• Creating session beans with wizard

• Using EJB Deployment Descriptor editor

• Generating deployment code

• Deploying to RAD Test Environment

• Testing with Universal Test Client

• Deploying to remote production server

Module 8: Developing JPA Entities with RAD

• Defining entities

• Adding persistent fields

• Specifying custom finder methods

• Defining data sources

• Defining Persistence Units

• Using the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) editor

• Creating data source in Server configuration

• Generating database schema

• Generating JPA entities from a schema (reverse-engineering)

Module 9: Developing Web Applications with RAD

• Overview of Web applications and WAR file structure

• Creating Web projects

• Editing Web Application deployment descriptors

• Developing Servlets

• Developing JavaServer Page

• Developing custom tags

• Developing JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications

Module 10: Using RAD's XML Development Environment

• Overview of XML Concepts

• Creating XML file from scratch

• Creating DTD from an XML file

• Creating XML from DTD file

• Creating XML Schema from DTD

Module 11: Developing Web Services

• Overview of Web Services Concepts

• Developing Web Services in RAD

• Publishing Web Services

• Discovering and using Web Services

• Develop an EJB Type Web Service

Module 12: Advanced Data Access

• Database design in Data perspective

• Creating SQL statements to access data

• Generating XML from queries