Advanced Programming in Java

The Advanced Java Programming course is a comprehensive hands-on workshop geared for developers who wish to explore specific advanced programming APIs and techniques. Students who attend the Advanced Java Programming course will leave the course armed with the skills they require to develop solid Java applications, using sound coding techniques and best coding practices. Many complete mini-projects are laced throughout the course, designed to reinforce fundamental skills and concepts learned in the lessons. Because these lessons, labs and projects are presented in a building block fashion, students will gain a solid understanding of not only the core concepts, but also how all pieces fit together in a complete application. Working in a hands-on environment, developers will : • list possible metrics for measuring software performance • explain the effect of OO design on software performance • list and describe types of benchmarks and the criteria that should be considered when constructing a benchmark plan • explore the most useful targets for profiling, and the most common tools/techniques for profiling • describe two strategies for improving performance as a result of profiling data • list and explain the five most common problem areas for good performance with Java • use the JDK to collect runtime profiling data • successfully read the profiling data generated by the JDK to detect performance bottlenecks • instrument your own code to collect method execution time data • learn code optimization techniques • use zip I/O streams • explore and understand the NIO packages • Use Java API's to parse XML data • understand how to structure and the advantages of jar files • understand and implement Internationalization and Localization techniques • explore and understand JNI • interface to a C function from Java • exchange data from a JVM to a C function • Implement a security policy

This Workshop is a comprehensive hands-on workshop geared for developers who wish to explore specific advanced programming APIs and techniques.