New Features of RAD v7 for WSAD v5 Developers

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Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

The course is designed to give information on numerous new features available from RAD 7. After taking the class, students will be able to fully take advantage of WAS v6 and RAD v7.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for developers who are currently using WSAD v5.x and are planning to move to RAD 7.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• fully take advantage of WAS v6 and RAD v7

Prerequisites:

Previous knowledge of Servlet, JSP and EJB development using WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) is required.

Course Outline:

• Introduction to RAD v7.0
  1. The RAD 7 Product
  2. Eclipse Platform
  3. Rational Web Developer
  4. RAD
  5. Key Features in RAD v7.0
  6. Views, Perspective, and Editor Areas
  7. Basic Operations with RAD Views and Perspectives
  8. The Java Perspective
  9. The Debug Perspective
  10. Navigator and Outine View
  11. Package Explorer
  12. Task and Problems View
  13. Build and Validation
  14. Import and Export Project
  15. Code Completion, Templates and Snippets
  16. Searching
  17. Setup Compiler Class Path
  18. JRE Switching
  19. Refactoring
  20. Changing Class, Method, and Variable Name
  21. Moving a Class to a Different Package
  22. Extracting Code to a Method
  23. Pull Up and Push Down Methods
  24. Migrating Workspace from RAD v6
  25. Project Interchange
  26. Migrating J2EE Applications
  27. J2EE Migration Wizard
• J2EE Tools
  1. Project Explorer
  2. Servers View
  3. The J2EE and Web Perspective
  4. Create an Enterprise App.
  5. Setup Utility JAR
  6. Create an EJB Project
  7. Create a Web Project
  8. Setup Dependent JAR Files
  9. Create Server Instance and Server Configuration
  10. Configure Server Instance
  11. Add an Enterprise App. Proj. to the Test Server
  12. Start and Stop the Server
  13. Test and Debug a Servlet
  14. Test and Debug a JSP
• JDK 1.4 Features
  1. JDK 1.4 New Features
  2. Control Flow of Logging
  3. Loggers
  4. Logging API - Handlers
  5. Logging API Formatters & Log Manager
  6. JDK 1.4 - JAXP
  7. JDK 1.4
  8. JDK 1.4 - Assertions
• New Features of Java SE 5
  1. Generics - defined
  2. Multiple Parameter Example
  3. Using SampleGeneric
  4. Using Multiple Parameters
  5. Using Point
  6. Java SE 5 Collection Interfaces
  7. Using generics with Collection classes
  8. Benefits of Generics
  9. Advanced LinkedList Example
  10. Generic Methods
  11. Generic Methods Continued
  12. Boxing and Unboxing
  13. Autoboxing/unboxing
  14. Enhanced for loop
  15. Enhanced for loop in Generics
  16. Enumeration data type
  17. Enums in Java 5.0
  18. Advanced Enums Reverse Lookup
  19. Variable-length argument Lists
• Web Application API Changes
  1. Develop a Servlet in RAD
  2. Create a Servlet
  3. Run a Servlet in RAD
  4. Servlet 2.4
  5. New Methods of ServletRequest
  6. SingleThreadModel
  7. RequestDispatcher
  8. Internationalization
  9. Web.xml
  10. Schema for Web.xml
  11. Listeners
  12. ServletRequestListener
  13. ServletRequestEvent
  14. ServletRequestAttributeListener
  15. ServletRequestAttributeEvent
  16. Simple Tag Handler API
  17. Java Simple Tag Handler
  18. The Tag Library Descriptor
  19. JSP Page Using the Custom Action
  20. Working With the Tag Body
  21. JSP Tag Handler
  22. Example: customer.tag File
  23. JSP File Using Custom Tag
  24. Working With the Body
  25. Advantages of Using Tag Files
• JSP Expression Language and STL
  1. JSP Expression Language
  2. Basic Usage
  3. Built-in Objects
  4. Working With Arrays and Maps
  5. Operators
  6. JSP STL (JSTL 1.1)
  7. Run Time Version (JSTL 1.0)
  8. Basic, Condition, and Interator Tags
  9. Internationalization (I18N)
  10. Setting Preferred Locale
  11. Specifying Resource Bundle
  12. Display Translated Text
  13. Display Number and Date, and Result
  14. JDBC Tags
  15. Specify Data Source
  16. Performing a Query
• EJB 2.1 Changes
  1. Service Endpoint Interface
  2. Other JAX RPC Artifacts
  3. Developing a JAX RPC Web Services in RAD 6
  4. JAX RPC Client programming Model
  5. Container-Managed Timer Service
  6. EJB Timer Service
  7. Interaction between Timer Service and EJB
  8. Timer Service API
  9. Timer Service Interface
  10. TimedObject Interface
  11. Timer Interfaces
  12. Timer and Transaction
  13. Limitations of EJB Timer Service
  14. EJB QL Enhancements
  15. Annotation Based EJB Development
  16. Annotation Scope
  17. The @ejb.bean, @ejb.home, and @ejb.interface Tags
  18. The @ejb.interface-method Tag
  19. Annotation Based EJB Development
  20. Create an Annotated Bean Class
  21. Enhanced EAR File
  22. Enhanced EAR File Editor
  23. Deployment Descriptor Of An Enterprise File
  24. Exporting an Enterprise Application into an EAR File
  25. Exporting an Enterprise Application
• Test-Driven Development with JUnit
  1. Component Testing
  2. Testing Frameworks
  3. JUnit
  4. JUnit TestCase
  5. Assert Statements
  6. TestSuite and TestRunners
  7. JUnit in RAD
  8. Add junit.jar Manually
  9. JUnit in RAD
  10. Component, EJB, and Web Service Testing
• Application Profiling
  1. Profiling Tool
  2. Profiling Architecture
  3. Profiling Sets (3)
  4. Enable Profiling and Logging
  5. Profiling a Java Class
  6. Configure Profiling Criteria
  7. Profiling Monitor View
  8. Memory Usage Profiling
  9. Memory Leak Analysis
  10. Transaction-Oriented Memory Leak Analysis
  11. Starting a server in profiling mode Agent Controller and profiling mode
  12. Collecting object references
  13. Object Reference Table
  14. Execution Flow View
  15. Identify Performance Bottlenecks
  16. Method Invocation Details view
  17. Thread Analysis
  18. Execution Flow - Threads
  19. UML2 Trace Interaction view
• Code Review
  1. Rule
  2. Rule Severity Level
  3. Information on a Rule
  4. Analysis Configurations
  5. Configuring Code Reviews and Review Rules
  6. Create User Defined Rule
  7. Select a Template Window
  8. Rule Properties
  9. Perform Automated Code Review
  10. Run Code Review
  11. Code Review Details
  12. Quick Fixes
• Code Coverage
  1. Code Coverage Displays
  2. Coverage, Package, and Class Statistics
  3. Method Invocation View
  4. Method Invocation Details
  5. Method Invocation Details view
  6. Code Coverage Statistics view
  7. Coverage Statistics View
• WebSphere Programming Model Exts. 1
  1. Startup Bean
  2. Creating a Startup Bean
  3. Methods for Startup Beans
  4. Enable Startup Bean Service
  5. Asynchronous Beans
  6. Transactions in Async. Beans
  7. Work Managers
  8. Work Manager Properties
  9. Work Manager Screen
  10. Using a Work Object
  11. Scheduler Service
  12. Configuring Schedulers
  13. Admin Console Configuration
  14. Scheduler Configuration
  15. Scheduler Tasks
  16. Developing Scheduler Clients
  17. Create a Task Handler EJB
  18. Create a Scheduler Bean
  19. Create a Process() Method in an Session Bean
  20. Create an EJB Task
  21. Create a JMS Message Task
• WebSphere Programming Model Exts. 2
  1. Work Area
  2. Work Area Service
  3. Work Area Service Settings
  4. UserWorkArea Interface
  5. Work Area Property Modes
  6. Work Area Considerations
  7. Bidirectional Work Areas
  8. Nested Work Areas
  9. Using Work Areas
  10. Completing Work Areas
  11. Object Pool
  12. Object Pool Manager
  13. ObjectPoolManager and ObjectPool Interfaces
  14. Object Pool Service Settings
  15. Configure Object Pool Manager
  16. Custom Object Pools
  17. Sample Code
  18. Application Profile
  19. Access Intent
  20. Application Profile
  21. Unit of Work
  22. Enable Application Profiling
• Dynamic Caching for Web Apps.
  1. Configuring Dynamic Cache
  2. How Caching Works
  3. Structure of cachespec.xml
  4. URL Based Caching
  5. Session Based Cache
  6. Cache Priority
  7. Configuring Cache Manager
  8. ESI Cache