The course covers the Android architecture and its Linux underpinnings, the installation of the Android development tools on Linux, Windows and MAC OSX platforms, and use of the Eclipse Java IDE as well as the Android simulator for programming, debugging and testing of Android Java applications.

This course is for those who have relatively little programming experience and who would like to be able to develop Android applications. This course aims to provide a sound introduction to Java programming that will equip those completing the course with the necessary skills to develop Android applications and to be able to understand how to program using the Android development framework in particular.

Java 2: Enterprise Connectivity builds on the fundamentals of the Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology including database connectivity, Java Server Pages, Servlets, and Enterprise Java Beans.

Client/server applications can be written utilizing both the java.net and java.rmi packages. Security is also covered in detail throughout several chapters including security policies and data encryption. XML parsing is done using the JAXP API. Programmers can use C and C++ functions from their Java programs using JNI. The course ends with several chapters on design patterns and how they can be put to best use in different types of Java applications.

Visually exciting and compelling Web pages are key components to a successful Web strategy. This course provides in-depth hands-on experience writing client-side JavaScript.

This four-day course builds skills in Java’s XML processing APIs. The course is intended for students with a working knowledge of XML — and possibly DTDs or XML Schema — who want to build XML applications or components using the Java language. Everything in the course adheres to W3C and Java standards for completely portable code.