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OL319: Java Foundation
Classes (Swing)
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Description:
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Java Foundation Classes explores the latest features of Java for simplified GUI development and deployment of commercial-quality desktop and Internet applications. View a GUI project from the "top-down", exploring the actual project development by breaking the completed project into easy to understand steps and techniques.
The following module is appropriate for students who have completed ol310 or equivalent.
This hands-on course is composed of comprehensive lectures, practical
project illustrations and independent programming sessions. Multi-tiered,
hands-on exercises are incorporated into each lesson. All student materials
appropriate equipment are provided.
- Objectives:
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- At the end of the course, particpants
will be able to:
- Implement GUI that facilitates a customizable
look and feel.
- Develop applications using
key foundation services.
- Develop applications that meet federal regulations.
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- Audience:
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- Programmers interested in the development or maintainence of GUIs using
Java's latest packages. This course is also for Java programmers already
familiar with AWT who want a quick introduction to Swing.
- Prerequisites:
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- Some programming experience in Java and basic familiarity with GUI development.
Duration: 2 days
- Course Contents:
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Unit 1: What is JFC?
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Learn the features that the Java Foundation Classes offer.
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Understand the different features of the JFC and what they are used for.
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Unit 2: Basics of Swing Programming
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Identify Swing components in Swing applications.
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Add a button to a simple Swing application.
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Describe the role of threads in a Swing application.
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Describe how the MVC architecture affects the operation of components.
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Unit 3: Basic Swing Components
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Understand that a Swing application must contain a top-level container.
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Use Swings 3 top-level containers: JFrame, JDialog, and JApplet.
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Add components to a JDialog.
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Add a JMenuBar component to a JFrame.
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Unit 4: Layers, Panes and Panels
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Add a component to the Content Pane.
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Explain the system of Panes in Swing's top level containers.
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Use the JScrollPane and JSplitPane to seperate two components in a JFrame.
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Create a JTabbedPane with several tabs.
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Explain how a GlassPane can be used to implement your own drag-and-drop.
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Unit 5: Layout Managers
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Use different Layout Managers to accommodate
different styles of component layout.
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Compare the FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout, GridBagLayout and BoxLayout layout managers.
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Nest several simple layout managers to create a given complex layout.
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Unit 6: New Swing Components
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Add a border to a component using BorderFactory.
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Use the Swing Components JSlider, JComboBox, JProgressBar and JInternalFrame.
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Use features of the JComponent class such as ToolTips, DebugGraphics and Autoscrolling.
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Unit 7: Icons and Images
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Create an Image from within an applet.
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Create an Image from an application.
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Use MediaTracker to wait for a set of images to finish loading.
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List three ways to "speed up" applications that load images.
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Create an Image from your own data using MemoryImageSource.
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Grab pixels from an Image using PixelGrabber.
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Unit 8: JTree
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Learn to write code that displays a simple JTree.
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Add a listener to a JTree that is notifed each time any data in the tree changes.
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Write your own "TreeCellRenderer" which displays your own icon.
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Write your own "TreeCellEditor" which lets the user type text into a tree node.
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