Class overview :

Class goals :

Build Your First Applet and Applications Using VisualAge

Using the Basic VisualAge SmartGuides

The VisualAge Environment

The Visual Composition Editor

Creating Connections Between Java Beans

Reusable Form Fragments

Creating “Invisible” Beans from Scratch

Content of J2 Using IBM VisualAge To Create Java Applications

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create applications and applets in VisualAge.
• Use many of the VisualAge SmartGuides.
• Navigate through the features of the VisualAge environment, and be ableto use the debugger.
• Use the Visual Composition Editor to create GUI-rich visual applications.
• Use Connections in the Visual Composition Editor to specify eventhandling and property-to-property connections.
• Create reusable, “visible” form-fragment beans.
• Create new “invisible” beans that have events and properties.
• Use advanced Swing techniques in VisualAge, including using TabbedPanes and ScrollPanes, and specifying the data model of various beans,such as JLists.
• Understand and modify the code that the VisualAge Visual CompositionEditor generates.
• Access databases using the Java JDBC libraries.
• Access databases using specialized database beans, such as the Select and DBNavigator beans in the Visual Composition Editor.
• Create custom database-aware TableModels beans for use with Swing JTables.

Java 2: Using IBM VisualAge to Create Java Applications introduces the major elements of the VisualAge Java programming environment.