Contents
Tutorial: Starting Rational Application Developer
Tutorial: Creating and Deleting a Project
Tutorial: Creating a Java Class
Tutorial: Entering and Editing Java Statements
Tutorial: Running an Application in RAD
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Tutorial: Passing Parameters and Formatting Source Code
Tutorial: Defining a Java Application
Tutorial: Breaking the Code, Public vs. Private Access
Tutorial: Breaking the Code, Parameters, and Signatures
Tutorial: Exploring the JRE with RAD
Tutorial: Exploring the JRE through Online Documentation
Tutorial: Changing RAD Perspectives
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Chapter 3: Graphical User Interfaces
Introduction to GUI, AWT, Swing, and SWT
Tutorial: Creating a GUI with RAD
Tutorial: Running a New Application
Tutorial: Creating a Frame Subclass
Tutorial: Defining and Adding a Label
Tutorial: Defining a Functional Frame
Tutorial: Creating UML Diagrams with RAD
Tutorial: Modifying UML Diagrams with RAD
Tutorial: Generating Getters and Setters
Tutorial: Displaying the Employee Information
Tutorial: Breaking the Frame Code
Tutorial: Breaking the Getter/Setter Code
Results of the Review Exercise
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Chapter 4: More GUI and the Visual Editor
Specialization vs. Composition
Tutorial: Creating a Visual Class with VE
Tutorial: Modifying Properties
Tutorial: Adding Visual Components
Tutorial: Finishing the Application
Tutorial: Breaking the Code with VE
Results of the Review Exercise
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Results of the Challenge Exercise
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Reference versus Primitive Variables
Tutorial: Displaying Reference Variable Values
Tutorial: Working with Primitive Variables
Tutorial: Overriding the toString Method
Manipulating Numeric Primitives
Tutorial: Using Primitive Variables
Using Primitive Variables Tutorial Answers and Explanation
Converting Between Primitive Types
Strings to Primitives and Vice Versa
Tutorial: Testing EnterEmpInfo
Tutorial: Converting and Calculating
Tutorial: Adding a Result Label
Results of the Review Exercise
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Results of the Challenge Exercise
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Chapter 6: Conditional Logic and Checkboxes
Tutorial: Tax Calculation—Part I
Compound Conditions versus Nested Ifs
Tutorial: Tax Calculation—Part II
Tutorial: Comparisons between Reference Variables
Tutorial: Comparisons between String Variables
Tutorial: Coding a Checkbox Group
Tutorial: Working with an ItemEvent and States
Tutorial: Tying the Frames Together
Tutorial: Using the New Calculation
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Chapter 7: Application Improvements
Tutorial: Catching an Exception
Tutorial: Solving Program Errors
Tutorial: More About Iteration
Tutorial: Finishing the Choice
Tutorial: Date and Time Formatting
Tutorial: Tidying Up Our Messy Method
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Tutorial: Using HTML to Create a Web Page
Tutorial: Using the RAD Server
Tutorial: Creating a Simple Servlet
Tutorial: Working with a Response Object
Tutorial: Defining Form Components
Tutorial: Retrieving Form Information
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Tutorial: JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
Tutorial: Enhancing the Web Application
Tutorial: Creating a Servlet for
Tutorial: Adding Function to the Server-Based Application
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Tutorial: Setting up the Project
Tutorial: Accessing DB2 on an IBM Power System
Tutorial: Accessing an Oracle Database
Tutorial: Accessing a Microsoft Access Database
Tutorial: Set-Up for Accessing All Databases
Tutorial: Breaking the Code, Drivers, and Connections
Tutorial: Using a Statement Object to Insert Data
Tutorial: Retrieving Data from a Database
Tutorial: Using a Database in an Application
Tutorial: Finishing the Employee Application, Part 1
Tutorial: Finishing the Employee Application, Part 2
Data Access in a Complex Environment
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Tutorial: Creating a Custom Tag
Tutorial: Defining the Tag Handler Class
How to Generate a Visual Component
Tutorial: Generating a Visual Component
Tutorial: Defining and Using the Custom Tag
Tutorial: Testing the Custom Tag
Tutorial: Database Access with Tags
Tutorial: Modifying the Tag Handler
Tutorial: Deleting Records Using a Custom Tag
Tutorial: Testing the Insert and Delete
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Tutorial: Creating a JSF Project
Tutorial: Creating a Facelet with Page Designer
Tutorial: Using SDO components
Tutorial: Formatting a Facelet
Tutorial: Linking Web Pages to a Facelet
Tutorial: Inserting Data Using a Relational Record (RR)
Updating Data Using SDO and JSF
Tutorial: Defining a Scripting Variable
Binding a Data Object to a Visual Component
Tutorial: Defining a Navigation Rule
Tutorial: Updating and Deleting Using a Relational Record
Tutorial: Testing the Update and Delete Functions
Tutorial: Fixing the Application
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Appendix A: Installing a Java Application on a PC
Tutorial: Exporting an Application from RAD
Tutorial: Environment Variables
Tutorial: Creating a Batch File
Tutorial: Running a Java Application on the PC
Tutorial: Stopping a Runaway Application in Windows
Results of the Review Exercise
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SQL and Relational Database Concepts
Appendix C: Installing a Java Application on WAS
Tutorial: Accessing a WAS Application