Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Master of Information Technology, Master of Information Technology (Professional Computing) and Master of Technology (Information Technology).

Aims & Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this unit of study will be able to:
 

• Competently use Swing to program the user interface of Java applications.
• Explain the architectural and performance issues of programming in Java.
• Use threads, collections, graphics 2D and J2ME API's.
   
   
   

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (24 hours), Tutorial (Lab) (12 hours) 

Assessment:

Assignments, Examination

Generic Skills Outcomes:

The graduate attributes which relate to this unit of study help to produce graduates who:

• Are capable in their chosen professional areas.
• Are entrepreneurial.

Content:

• The Swing API.
• Specialised dialogs: JColor Choose, J File Chooser, J Option Pane, etc.
• Model-based components: JTree, JTable etc.
• Image display.
• Threads.
• Serialisation.
• Java Beans.
• Introduction to RMI.

Reading Materials:

Horstmann, CA & Cornell, G, Core Java 2, Vol. 1: Fundamentals, 6th edn, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Horstmannm, CA & Cornell, G, Core Java 2, Vol. 2: Advanced Features, 4th edn, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Selman, D, Java 3D Programming, Manning, 2002
Deitel, HM & Deitel, PJ, Java How to Program, 4th edn, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Deitel, HM, Deitel, PJ & Santry, SE, Advanced Java 2 Platform, Prentice Hall, 2002.
Spell, B, Professional Java Programming, Wrox Press, 2000.