This course is intended for programmers who are familiar with the Java environment and syntax and are ready to learn more about developing complex applications. It also discusses some of the issues involved in the development and deployment of distributed applications.

JavaBeans
The BeanBox tool | Events | The core reflection API | Indexed and bound properties | Object serialization | JAR files | Introspection

Multithreading
Creating threads | Inheriting from the thread class | thread scheduling, priority, synchronization | Thread completion | Stopping a thread | Daemon threads | The ThreadGroup class | Thread states

Networked Applications
TCP/IP overview | UDP | TCP | Network addressing and port numbers | Class InetAddress | Sockets | She ServerSocket class | Reading and writing binary data |
Multithreaded servers | The DatagramPacket class | Datagram sockets | The URL classes

JDBC
JDBC versus ODBC | Multi-tier models | JDBC and SQL | JDBC architecture | JDBC driver types | Connections | The DriverManager | Statements | ResultSets | Using streams | PreparedStatement | CallableStatement

Remote Method Invocation
RMI features | Distributed vs nondistributed models | Configuration scenarios | RMI through firewalls | Client and server classes | Writing the Java Source | Compiling and deploying files | Starting the registry, server, and applet

Using Native Methods
Overview of Java's native interfaces | Writing the C function | Java to C data conversions | JNI interface function table | Accessing object member variables | Accessing arrays | String operations | Calling a Java method from C | Method signatures

Understanding Java Security
The mocha decompiler | Public key encryption | Digital signatures and certificates | Java's security package | Enhanced capabilities of trusted applets | The Java Security Manager