Rational Application Developer v6.0 Migration
Onsite/Virtual Instructor-Led Format



Audience
Java developers, web page designers and other professionals that will be designing, developing and implementing large scale applications using JSPs, JSFs, servlets, EJBs, portals and Service Data Objects (SDOs) using Rational Application Developer v6.0.
   

Duration

 4.5 Days
   
Course Abstract
This course will integrate a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to demonstrate the usage of J2EE v1.4 abilities and development capabilities of RAD v6.0. This seminar will focus on the transition of experienced developers to RAD v6.0 from WSAD v5.x for the building of Java Servlets, JSPs, JavaServer Faces, EJB v2.1, role of Service Data Objects in EIS development, business logic using Enterprise Generation Language, developing portals and portlets and the use of Web Services and deployment in a WebSphere v6.0 environment.
Price $1295 per student
   
Objectives

Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

  • Understand the role of the RAD v6.0 IDE tool
  • Explain the role of RAD projects and perspectives
  • Demonstrate the usage of RAD wizards for rapidly developing components, projects and servers
  • Illustrate the J2EE 1.4 component model and role in designing server-side applications
  • Develop, debug and test servlet and JSP components
  • Demonstrate usage of custom JSP tags and tag libraries.
  • Illustrate the development of Service Data Objects (SDO) for accessing data fields and linking them to the interface.
  • Depict the role of JavaServer Faces for building web pages by assembling reusable components
  • Understand the use of Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) for building 4GL style processing
  • Demonstrate the development of portal applications and the creation of portlets
  • Illustrate UML visualization in RAD v6.0
  • Illustrate RAD v6.0 EAR, WAR and JAR packaging
  • Deploy applications to the embedded WebSphere Application Server
   
Class Format Lecture and Lab
   
Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of the internet and have been exposed to the Java programming language.
Course Topics

The following list represents the sections and topics discussed in this virtual instructor-led course offering.
 

WebSphere v6.0 Overview

  • WebSphere products
  • Standalone vs Network Deployment administration
  • J2EE v1.4 overview
  • J2EE packaging
  • Application lifecycle
  • WebSphere architecture
    o Cells
    o Clusters
    o Nodes
    o Node Agents
    o Web Services Gateway

RAD v6.0 IDE

  • IDE environment
    o Perspectives
    o Editors
    o Views
    o Layouts
  • Project architecture
    o EAR
    o WAR
    o JAR
    o RAR
  • Project types
    o Enterprise
    o Application Client
    o Dynamic/Static Web
    o Connectors
    o Server
  • Project properties

Unified Modeling Language

  • Defining UML
  • Visual Modeling with UML
    o Notation
    o Building blocks
    o Relationships
    • Dependency
    • Association
    • Generalization
  • Aggregation
  • Rational Unified Process
    o Process Advisor
    o Process Browser
  • Application visualization with UML
    o Browse diagram
    o Topic diagram
    o Static Method diagram
    o Class diagram
    o Sequence diagram
  • J2EE visualization

Java Application Development

  • Java applications
    o Java project
    o Class diagram creation
    o Packages, Classes and Interfaces
    o Define relationships
  • Java Development additional features
    o Compile errors
    o Running/Debugging
    o Pluggable JRE
    o Classpath
    o JAR file export
  • Servlet/JSP applications
    o Web projects
    o Page Designer
    o Web Site Designer
    o Servlet development
    o JSP development
  • Database applications
    o JDBC Overview
    o XMI and DDL
    o Data perspective
    o Create database objects
    • Connections
    • Schemas
    • Table
    • Generate DDL
  • UML diagrams
    • Class
    • IE
    • IDEF (Integrated Definition extended)
  • Use with SQL
    o SQL Statements
    o Stored Procedures
    • Creation
    • DriverManager access
    • Access via JavaBean
  • GUI applications
    o Visual Editor
    o Layout Manager
    o Development
    • Resizing
    • Code synchronization
    • Component properties
  • Event handling
  • XML applications
    o XML overview
    o DTD and XML schema
    o XML namespaces
  • Database applications
    o JDBC Overview
    o XMI and DDL

Application Development with Struts

  • MVC and Struts
  • Web application development
    o Struts component
    o ApplicationResources.properties
    o Tag libraries
  • Action mappings
  • FORM beans
  • Realize Struts components
    o Form bean
    o Actions
    o JSP
    o Web Connections
  • Validation framework
  • Struts-config.xml

JavaServer Faces and SDO

  • JSF framework
  • Managed beans
    o Definition
    o Message bundles
    o Configuration
    o Value binding expressions
  • Standard JSF tags
  • Development via Web Diagram tool
  • Event Handling
    o Value change
    o Action event
    o Event listener tags
    o Struts component
  • Service Data Objects
    o Overview
    o SDO vs JDO
    o SDO vs ADO.NET
  • SDO objects
    o Data objects
    o Data graphs
    o properties

 

Web Services Overview

  • Service Oriented Architecture
    o UDDI Registries
    o Service Requestor
    o Web Service
  • B2C vs B2B
  • Defining XML
  • SOAP
    o Architecture
    o Messages
  • Web Services Descriptive Language
    o Definition
    o Usage

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL)

  • Introduction
  • EGL and RAD
    o Projects
    o Perspectives
    o Wizards
  • Configure Datasource
  • Integration with JSF
  • EGL Web Services

Develop Portal Applications

  • Portal Overview
    o Concepts
    o WebSphere Portal
    o Integration with RAD
  • Portal development tools
  • Building portlets
    o Components
    o Core objects
    o Listeners
    o Configuration objects
  • Portlet API
    o Portlet events
    o Caching
    o Services
  • Deployment descriptors