Review of Core Java: Object Oriented Concepts in Java, Basic Java features, JVM. Data Types and Control Structures, operators, Java Methods and classes, static and final keywords, garbage collection. Abstract Class, Interfaces, Implementing Interfaces, Defining Methods, Argument Passing Mechanism, Inheritance, Method Overloading, Overriding Methods, use of super keyword. Packages, Exception Handling. Threads, Need of Multi-Threaded Programming, Thread Life-Cycle, Thread Priorities, Synchronizing Threads, Inter Communication of Threads.
J2EE Overview, Need of J2EE, J2EE Architecture, J2EE APIs, J2EE Containers. Web Application Basics, Architecture and Challenges of Web Application, Servlet Life Cycle, Developing and Deploying Servlets, Exploring Deployment Descriptor (web.xml), Handling Request and Response, Initializing a Servlet
JDBC – The JDBC Connectivity Model, Types of JDBC Drivers., Basic steps to JDBC, setting up a connection to database, Creating and executing SQL statements, ResultSet and ResultSet Metadata Object. Accessing Database, Servlet Chaining, Session Tracking and Management
Java Server Pages: Basic JSP Architecture, Life Cycle of JSP, JSP Tags & Expressions, JSP Implicit Objects, Tag Libraries; Overview of the Spring Framework, Spring Philosophies, Spring Containers,Spring Configuration File, Spring Beans, Using the Container, The BeanFactory Interface,Singleton vs. Prototype, Bean Naming, Dependency injection with Spring.
Building Web Applications Using Spring MVC: Spring Web MVC, The Dispatcher Servlet, A Simple View Page, Adding a View Resolver, Adding a Message Bundle, Adding Business Classes, Adding Test Data, Using JDBC with Spring, Accessing a Database, Adding a Form, Updating the Database.
Beginning Spring,Wrox publication, Feb 2015