Course Overview

1. Introduction to Advanced Java

• Review of Core Java concepts
• Introduction to JDK, JRE, and JVM
• Overview of advanced Java applications (desktop, web, enterprise-level)

2. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

• Introduction to JDBC
• JDBC Architecture
• Connecting to a database
• Executing queries (CRUD operations)
• Prepared Statements and Callable Statements
• Transaction Management
• ResultSet Types and Concurrency
• Batch Processing

3. Servlets

• Introduction to Web Technologies
• Servlet Life Cycle
• Developing and deploying servlets
• Handling HTTP requests and responses
• Session management (cookies, HttpSession, URL rewriting)
• ServletConfig and ServletContext
• Filters and Listeners

4. Java Server Pages (JSP)

• Introduction to JSP
• JSP lifecycle
• JSP Directives, Actions, and Implicit Objects
• Scriptlets, Expressions, and Declaration tags
• JSP with Servlets
• Custom Tags
• Expression Language (EL)
• Error Handling in JSP

5. Java Beans

• Introduction to JavaBeans
• Creating and using JavaBeans
• Properties, methods, and events in JavaBeans

6. MVC Architecture

• Introduction to Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• Role of Servlets, JSP, and Beans in MVC
• Building applications using the MVC pattern

7. Hibernate Framework

• Introduction to Hibernate
• Hibernate Architecture
• Configurations (Hibernate.cfg.xml)
• Mapping files and annotations
• CRUD operations using Hibernate
• HQL (Hibernate Query Language)
• Relationships (One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many)
• Caching in Hibernate

8. Spring Framework

• Introduction to Spring
• Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI)
• Spring Bean Configuration
• Spring MVC
• Spring JDBC and ORM integration
• Spring Boot (Optional for modern setups)

9. Web Services

• Introduction to Web Services (SOAP & REST)
• Creating RESTful Web Services using JAX-RS
• Consuming Web Services
• JSON and XML parsing in Java
• Tools like Postman for testing APIs

10. Java Mail API

• Sending emails using Java Mail API
• Configuring mail servers (SMTP, POP3)
• Sending attachments and HTML content

11. Advanced Topics

• Multithreading and Concurrency in depth
• Java 8+ features (Streams, Lambdas, Optional, Functional Interfaces)
• Java Security (Encryption/Decryption, SSL)
• Log4j and Apache Commons Logging
• Build Tools (Maven/Gradle)