This Certification is for students interested in taking Exam 310-025, Sun Certified Programmer of Java 2 Platform and Exam 310-080, Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to complete the following functions:

• Declarations and access control
• Flow control and exception handling
• Garbage collecting
• Language Fundamentals
• Operators and Assignments
• Overloading, overriding, runtime type, and object orientation
• Threads
• The java.awt package
• The java.lang package
• The java.util package
• The java.io package
• Develop Servlets
• Identify and implement Servlet lifecycle methods
• Invoke Servlets on a server
• Deploy a basic JavaServer page
• List JSP directives
• Handle JSP exceptions

This certification is for programmers experienced in using the basic syntax and structure of the Java Programming.

Lesson 1: Language Fundamentals

• Source Files
• Keywords and Identifiers
• Primitive Data Types
• Literals
• Arrays
• Class Fundamentals
• Argument Passing
• Garbage Collection

Lesson 2: Operators and Assignments

• Evaluation Order
• The Unary Operators
• The Arithmetic Operators
• The Shift Operators: <<, >> and >=
• The Comparison Operators
• The Bitwise Operators
• The Short-Circuit Logical Operators
• The Conditional Operator
• The Assignment Operators

Lesson 3: Modifiers

• Modifier Overview
• The Access Modifiers
• Other Modifiers
• Modifiers and Features

Lesson 4: Converting and Casting

• Explicit and Implicit Type Casting
• Primitives and Conversion
• Primitive and Casting
• Object Reference Conversion
• Object Reference Casting

Lesson 5: Flow Control and Exceptions

• The Loop Constructs
• The Selection Statements
• Exceptions

Lesson 6: Objects and Classes

• Benefits of Object-Oriented Implementation
• Overloading and Overriding
• Constructors and Subclassing
• Inner Classes

Lesson 7: Threads

• Thread Fundamentals
• Controlling Threads
• Monitors, wait(), and notify()

Lesson 8: The java.lang and java.util Packages

• The Object Class
• The Math Class
• The Wrapper Class
• Strings
• The Collections API

Lesson 9: Layout Managers

• Why Java Uses Layout Manager
• Layout Manager Theory
• Layout Policies
• Controlling the Cell Size for a Component
• GridBag's Shorthand
• Other Layout Options
• Improving Your Chances

Lesson 10: Events

• Motivation for the Event Delegation Model
• The Event Class Hierarchy
• Semantic Events
• Event Listeners
• Explicit Event Enabling
• Adapters
• Action Commands

Lesson 11: Components

• Components in General
• The Visual Components
• The Container Components
• The Menu Components

Lesson 12: Painting

• The paint() Method and the Graphics Context
• The GUI Thread and the repaint() Method
• Images

Lesson 13: Input and Output

• File Input and Output
• Streams, Readers and Writers
• Sockets

Programming with Java Servlets

• Overview and history of Java Servlets
• Fundamentals of HTTP
• Web applications (including deployment and configuration using XML files)
• The Servlet lifecycle (initializing, processing requests, cleanup, and caching)
• Multimedia content (images and compressed content)
• WAP and WML for wireless content
• Servlet session tracking techniques (hidden form fields, cookies, and URL rewriting)
• Security issues with Servlets (including certificates and SSL)
• Tutorial for JDBC and Java database programming
• Using applets and Servlets together
• Servlet collaboration
• Quick introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
• Internationalization issues
• Survey of third-party Servlet application frameworks and tools: Tea, WebMacro, the Element Contruction Set (ECS), XMLC, and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• Miscellaneous tips for Servlets (including sending e-mail and using regular expressions)
• Description of the new Servlet 2.3 API spec
• Servlet API quick reference

JavaServer Pages

• Overview of JavaServer Pages (JSPs)
• Server-side scripting languages, compared
• The advantages of Java servlets and JSPs
• Tutorial for basic JSP (tags and directives, expressions and scriptlets, flow control, and comments)
• JSP implicit objects, including request, response, and out
• Tutorial for simple JavaBean components
• The JSP useBean, setProperty, and getProperty tags
• Defining bean properties, including indexed properties
• Sample beans for JSPs
• Quick tutorial for JDBC and Java database programming
• Web application architecture using JSPs and beans
• Servlets vs. JSPs
• Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans
• Case study for an FAQ database
• Web archive (WAR) files, and deploying JSP-based Web applications
• Advanced topics in JSP development, including using cookies, error pages, JavaScript, and validating HTML form data
• Sample JSPs, including banner ads and a random-quote generator
• Custom tag libraries (basic and advanced interactive tags)
• Running Tomcat
• Combining JSPs with applets
• JSP syntax reference