AUDIENCE:   This course is for Applications Developers new to Java who will be developing applications in Java using IBM’s Rational Application Developer, (Formerly WebSphere Studio). PREREQUISITES:   Delegates should ideally be experienced programmers in languages other than Java. No knowledge of the Java language itself is required or expected. DURATION:   5 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course aims to give delegates a good understanding of the Java language, before moving on to use the language within IBM’s RAD Environment. The main benefit of this approach is that delegates will get a good appreciation of the language itself unhindered by the complications of the IDE, before moving on to implement what they have learnt within WebSphere Studio, building up their knowledge as they proceed. By the end of the course delegates will be building their code within WebSphere Studio, and able to take advantage of the facilities for java programmers available within WebSphere Studio. COURSE CONTENT:   Topics taught without an IDE: History and development of Java Java tools Overview of OO concepts and terminology Syntax of the Java language Basic types, objects and references Storage management and garbage collection Java classes and packages Basic I/O in Java Inheritance v aggregation and association Topics taught within Rational Application Developer: Graphical applications and applets Graphics and component libraries Layout managers Event driven Programming More complex Java structures Java API classes including vectors and hash tables Object persistence I/O streams and file handling Strings and tokenisers Errors and exceptions Concurrency (threads) Networked and Client/Server applications