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Techniques of Java Programming

Bertrand Meyer and Manuel Oriol, Summer Semester 2006

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Announcements

10 July 2006	The second exam (for those who haven't taken an exam yet) will take place today at ML E 12 at 14.00
03 July 2006	Added sample exam questions and last lecture's slides.
26 June 2006	Added slides for lectures 12.
8 June 2006	Added slides for lectures 9 and 10.
7 June 2006	Added material for Serialization exercise.
6 June 2006	Added reading to Byte code and Just-in-time.
29 May 2006	Added reading to Middleware II.
25 May 2006	Updated schedule.
23 May 2006	Added second questionnaire on the wiki for those willing to fill it at home.
19 May 2006	Added middleware slides and published questionnaires on the wiki for those who haven't filled them in yet.
15 May 2006	Added reflection and class loaders related explanations.
11 May 2006	Added Reading for Java Middleware.
10 May 2006	Added alpha textbook on Threads, corrected some mistakes on alpha textbook on Sockets. Added Non-blocking IO slides and Non-blocking IO source
7 May 2006	Added alpha textbook on Sockets
27 April 2006	Added Streams slides and alpha textbook on streams Added answer to question in class in the wiki.
24 April 2006	Added Erich Gamma's Inside Eclipse slides
20 April 2006	Added Project slides Added IEEE best practices document Updated course wiki
19 April 2006	Added UML slides Added textbook exercises corrections in the wiki Added readings
18 April 2006	Updated the textbook
12 April 2006	Added XP/TDD slides Added link to course wiki
10 April 2006	Added information about new rooms! Wednesday in HG D 5.2 and on Thursday in ML E 12 Added information about exam Added information about project
06 April 2006	Added reading assignement on Type Systems. Read at least section 1 that is very easy to understand.
05 April 2006	Beta version of the Java Basics course material online. Added also the program.
04 April 2006	The course will start on the 5th of April (16.00 - 17.00;IFW A 32.1) as scheduled. As an exception, instead of an exercise a lecture will be held on that day. The corresponding exercise will be held during a following lecture.
10 February 2006	This page is now active.

Description

Title and Code

Techniques of Java Programming
Course code: 251-0284-00

People

Prof. Dr. Bertrand Meyer, Dr. Manuel Oriol, Dr. Lisa Liu, Andreas Leitner, Till G. Bay

Scope

The course reviews most of the advanced Java language features after a short introduction to the language. This course is aimed at people that already have notions in programming and in object-orientation. During the course, articles and documentation will be shown and discussed.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of another Object-Oriented programming language is mandatory for understanding this course.

Topics

Java Basics.
Eclipse development platform.
Threads and Synchronization.
Dynamic Class Loading.
Reflection.
Java Virtual Machine.
Byte-code and Just-in-time compiler.
Java Middleware.
Java Components.
Specifics of Java vs specifics of Eiffel.

The literature for presentations covering those topics is given below.

Schedule

Wednesdays 16.00 - 17.00, HG D 5.2
Thursdays 14.00 - 16.00, ML E 12

Office hours: by appointment, RZ-J4.

Lectures program

Exercises (Tentative)

Thursday 6 April	Eclipse Tutorial
Wednesday 12 April	XP/TDD
Wednesday 19 April	UML and Project slides and IEEE document
Wednesday 10 May	Non-blocking IO slides and Non-blocking IO source
Wednesday 17 May	Unit Testing Platform and UnitTestingPlatform source code and IntListTest source code
Wednesday 24 May	Exam Questions
Wednesday 7 June	Serialization
Wednesday 14 June	Generics, Boxing, Foreach Loop, Vriable Arguments

The course wiki contains information about the project and the exercise and is generally a place for communication between the participants of the course.

Project

The project starts in week 16 (19.4.2006). Students are forming teams of up to five (5) people and choose an opensource Java project to which they wish to contribute. The actual project work will involve everything from selecting the project, to getting in touch with the development practices of the project to contributing patches. More on this will be announced in the exercise session of April 19th. See the project slides for guidelines or even better the course wiki.

A list of opensource Java projects is given below as inspiration:

Name	Website	Development plan	Bugtracking
Eclipse	http://www.eclipse.org	For example here: http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/ui/r3_2/main.html#Overall_Planning	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs
Tomcat	http://tomcat.apache.org	bug driven	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla
Maven	http://maven.apache.org	bug driven	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla
Open Office	http://www.openoffice.org	http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html	http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html
Azureus	http://azureus.sourceforge.net	bug driven	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=84122&atid=575154
JSR	http://www.jcp.org	http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/all	http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/index.jsp
ArgoUML	http://argouml.tigris.org/	http://argouml.tigris.org/dev.html	http://argouml.tigris.org/project_bugs.html
JUnit	http://www.junit.org/index.htm	bug driven	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=15278&atid=115278
Anteater	http://aft.sourceforge.net/	http://aft.sourceforge.net/todo.html	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=42970&atid=434732
GPSylon	http://www.tegmento.org/gpsylon/	http://www.tegmento.org/gpsylon/#todo	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=64816&atid=508750
XmlIO	http://www.bifrost.org/xmlio/index.shtml	http://www.bifrost.org/xmlio/todo.shtml
JEiffel	http://se.inf.ethz.ch/projects/benno_baumgartner/	http://se.inf.ethz.ch/projects/benno_baumgartner/

Exam

The exam will take place on July 6th 2006 from 14.00 - 16.00. It will be written and cover the material from the course. More precise information on the covered topics will be announced here.