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Introduction To Java Questions to be addressed Why would I use Java for developing my applications? How do I get started on developing Java applications? What applications do I need to start developing? Why Java? Platform
Questions to be addressed
Why would I use Java for developing my
How do I get started on developing Java
What applications do I need to start developing?
Platform independence
Works on every operating system there is a JDK
Mainly free
The JDK distribution is freely available, and there is
Connects with several available database
JDBC drivers are available for many different
Oracle MySQL SQL Server 2005
A wide variety of applications.
GUI database tools such as client records systems,
Paint and graphics objects to build games or image
Web applications using JSP pages.
To work with Java you need these components
Java JDK Java ME framework (to develop applications for
Java EE framework
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Netbeans 6.0 contains all the libraries
Eclipse IDE
Similar to the netbeans IDE, uses a plugin
Oracle Jdeveloper
Excellent tool for fast JDBC Development, however
The favoured IDE used by Sun A good introductory tool written in Java for java
Have mainly favoured netbeans for use in
Java is an object-oriented language Classes, methods and objects are the keywords
Supports full GUI development for standard
In Netbeans 6.0 GUI development is vey
In the following example, we will demonstrate
The next example will be a simple JSP based
Note the similarity in coding between a normal
The final example is the same application
Note that the mobile phone application also
These slides and the examples are available at
http://ict.mcast.edu.mt/staff/gerards/jug/ Open to discussion...