Beginning Java with WebSphere

Table of Contents

1. Title Page
2. Contents at a Glance
3. Contents
4. Foreword
5. About the Author
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Acknowledgments
8. CHAPTER 1: Java Basics
   1. The Java Language
   2. Classes
   3. Java Statements
   4. The main Method
   5. Objects and Instantiation
   6. Constructors
   7. WebSphere
   8. Review Questions
   9. Review Exercise
9. CHAPTER 2: Java on a PC
   1. Java Applications
   2. The Big Cruel Java World
   3. Java on a PC
   4. Review Questions
   5. Review Exercise
10. CHAPTER 3: Graphical User Interfaces
    1. Introduction to GUI, AWT, Swing, and SWT
    2. Composition
    3. Visual Components
    4. Specialization
    5. Review Questions
    6. Review Exercise
11. CHAPTER 4: More GUI and the Visual Editor
    1. Listeners
    2. Visual Editor
    3. Review Questions
    4. Review Exercise
    5. Challenge Exercise
12. CHAPTER 5: Variables
    1. Reference versus Primitive Variables
    2. The toString Method
    3. Manipulating Numeric Primitives
    4. Converting Between Primitive Types
    5. Review Questions
    6. Review Exercise
    7. Challenge Exercise
13. CHAPTER 6: Conditional Logic and Checkboxes
    1. Conditional Logic
    2. Compound Conditions versus Nested Ifs
    3. Debugging
    4. Checkboxes
    5. Review Questions
    6. Review Exercise:
    7. Challenge Exercise
14. CHAPTER 7: Application Improvements
    1. Exceptions
    2. The Choice Component
    3. Iteration
    4. Formatting
    5. Tidying Up Our Messy Method
    6. Review Questions
    7. Review Exercise
15. CHAPTER 8: Servlets
    1. What is a Server?
    2. Internet 101
    3. Servlets
    4. Working with Response Objects
    5. Review Questions
    6. Review Exercise
16. CHAPTER 9: Java Server Pages
    1. Tutorial: What is a JSP?
    2. More About JSPs
    3. Application Architecture
    4. More JSP Tags
    5. Java Beans
    6. JSP Bean Tags
    7. Review Questions
    8. Review Exercise
17. CHAPTER 10: Database Access
    1. Why Databases?
    2. Establishing a DB Connection
    3. Result Sets
    4. Class Design for Data Access
    5. Review Questions
    6. Review Exercise
    7. Challenge Exercise
18. CHAPTER 11: Custom Tag
    1. Tags
    2. Creating a Custom Tag
    3. Defining a Tag
    4. When to Create Custom Tags
    5. Tag Attributes
    6. How to Generate a Visual Component
    7. Review Questions
    8. Review Exercise
19. CHAPTER 12: JavaServer Faces
    1. JSF Overview
    2. Facelets and RAD
    3. Updating Data Using SDO and JSF
    4. Binding a Data Object to a Visual Component
    5. Navigation rules
    6. Review Questions
    7. Review Exercise
20. APPENDIX A: Installing a Java Application on a PC
    1. Tutorial: Exporting an Application from RAD
    2. Tutorial: Downloading a JRE
    3. Tutorial: Installing a JRE
    4. Tutorial: Environment Variables
    5. Tutorial: Creating a Batch File
    6. Tutorial: Running a Java Application on the PC
    7. Tutorial: Breaking the Code
    8. Tutorial: Stopping a Runaway Application in Windows
    9. Importing into RAD
    10. Review Questions
    11. Review Exercise
21. APPENDIX B: SQL
    1. SQL and Relational Database Concepts
    2. Creating
    3. Manipulating Data in a Table
    4. Data Manipulation
    5. Complex Conditions
22. APPENDIX C: Installing a Java Application on WAS
    1. Application Servers
    2. Tutorial: Exporting
    3. Tutorial: Installing to a WAS
    4. Tutorial: Accessing a WAS Application
    5. Results of the Tutorial
    6. Review Exercise
23. Index