Programming Courses:
Java & XML Training Course

The Java & XML course teaches delegates how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications, with the end result that both the data and the code are portable.

The course includes coverage of SAX and DOM, SOAP and data binding, and demonstrates their role with lots of examples throughout The course focuses on using XML from your Java applications. Java developers who need to work with XML, or think that they will in the future--as well as developers involved in the new peer-to-peer movement, messaging, or web services--will find this course valuable.

Delegates should have Java experience to the level of the PTR Java Programming Course and XML experience to the level of the PTR Introduction to XML course.

Topics covered on the 3 day Java & XML course

XML and Java

• Java and XML
• XML Syntax
• Document Type Definition
• Parsers
• Building Your Own Parser
• SAX Parsers
• DOM Parsers
• SAX vs DOM
• JAXP
• Validating vs Non-Validating

Parsing XML with SAX

• SAX Basics
• Parsing with SAX Using JAXP
• SAX Event Methods
• ContentHandler
• Parsing Elements
• Parsing Characters and Whitespace
• Error Handling
• SAX Parser Usage

Parsing XML with DOM

• Document Object Model
• Document Object
• Parsing with DOM Using JAXP
• Key DOM Interfaces
• Node
• Elements
• NodeList and NamedNodeMap
• Text Nodes

Building XML with DOM

• Creating an Empty DOM Object
• Building the Tree
• Cloning Nodes
• Combining Document Objects
• Writing DOM to XML

Validating XML

• Validation in XML
• Validation with DTDs
• Whitespace with Validation
• Validation with XML Schemas
• Schema Data Types
• Validating with SAX
• Whitespace and Validation
• Validating with DOM
• Parser Errors
• JAXP and XML Schemas

Java and XML Data Binding

• Why Not SAX or DOM?
• How JAXB Fits In
• How JAXB Works
• The JAXB Binding Schema
• Generating the Classes
• Marshalling and Unmarshalling
• Other Binding APIs

Basic SOAP

• SOAP Overview
• The SOAP Envelope
• SOAP Over HTTP
• A SOAP Server
• The Deployment Descriptor
• A SOAP Client
• Complex Data Types
• Complex Data Types: Client Code

Industrial Strength SOAP

• SOAP Messaging
• The Messaging Server
• Deployment
• The Messaging Client
• Web Services
• WSDL
• UDDI

XML Transformations with XSLT

• XML Transformations
• XSLT Stylesheets
• TrAX
• XSLT Processors
• XSLT in Servlets
• XSL Formatting Objects

Distributed Applications with XML

• Distributed Applications Overview
• Socket Programming with XML
• Servlets and JavaServer Pages
• Creating XML from Textual Data
• Creating XML from Relational Data
• JDBC
• Extracting XML from a ResultSet
• Inserting XML Into an RDBMS

Appendix A - JDOM

• Why JDOM?
• JDOM Packages
• Getting Started with JDOM
• JDOM Parsing
• Elements and Attributes
• Outputting from JDOM
• Transforming JDOM using XSLT

Appendix B - Java Advanced Topics

• Event Handling
• Sockets
• Servlets
• DBC

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