MCA-405 Elective 1(E1)B Syllabus

Elective-I

               E-I(a)     :              Managerial Economics

               E-I(b)    :              JAVA Programming & Technologies

               E-I(c)     :              Compiler Design

               E-I(d)    :              Microprocessors & Interface

               E-I(e)     :              Advanced  Data Base Management System

RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISHWAVIDYALAYA

  (University of Technology of Madhya Pradesh)

 COURSE OF STUDY AND SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (MCA)

W.E.F. 2005-2006

MCA-405 Elective 1(E1)B Syllabus

 

UNIT-I

The Java Environment: History of Java: Comparison of Java and C++; Java as an object oriented language: Java buzzwords; A simple program, its compilation and execution; the concept of CLASSPATH; Basic idea of application and applet;

Basics: Data types; Operators- precedence and associativity; Type conversion; The decision making – if, if ..else, switch; loops – for, while, do…while; special statements–return, break, continue, labeled break, labeled continue; Modular programming methods; arrays; memory allocation and garbage collection in java keywords.

Object Oriented Programming in Java: Class; Packages; scope and lifetime; Access specifies; Constructors; Copy constructor; this pointer; finalize () method; arrays; Memory allocation and garbage collection in java keywords

Inheritance : Inheritance basics, method overriding, dynamics method dispatch, abstract classes.

UNIT-II

Interfaces : defining an interface, implementing & applying interfaces, variables in interfaces, extending interfaces.

Multithreading and Exception Handling: Basic idea of multithreaded programming; The lifecycle of a thread; Creating thread with the thread class and runnable interface; Thread synchronization; Thread scheduling; Producer-consumer relationship; Daemon thread, Selfish threads; Basic idea of exception handling; The try, catch and throw; throws Constructor and finalizers in exception handling; Exception Handling.

UNIT-III

Applets: Applet security restrictions; the class hierarchy for applets; Life cycle of applet; HTML Tags for applet.

The AWT: The class hierarchy of window fundamentals;  The basic user interface components Label, Button, Check Box, Radio Button, Choice menu, Text area, Scroll list, Scroll bar; Frame; Layout managers- flow layout, Grid layout, Border layout, Card layout.

The Java Event Handling Model: Java’s event delegation model – lgnoring the event, Self contained events, Delegating events; The event class hierarchy; The relationship between interface, methods called, parameters and event source; Adapter classes; Event classes action Event, Adjustment Event, Container Event, Focus Event, Item Event, Eey Event, Mouse Event, Text Event, Window Event.

UNIT-IV

Input/Output : Exploring Java i.o., Directories, stream classes

The Byte stream : Input stream, output stream, file input stream, file output stream, print stream, Random access file, the character streams,  Buffered reader, buffered writer, print writer, serialization.

JDBC: JDBC-ODBC bridge; The connectivity model; The driver manager; Navigating the resultset object contents; java.sql Package; The JDBC exception classes; Connecting to Remote database.

UNIT-V

Networking & RMI:  Java Networking : Networking Basics : Socket, Client server, reserved sockets, proxy servers, Inet address, TCP sockets, UDP sockets.

; RMI for distributed computing; RMI registry services; Steps of creating RMI Application and an example.

Collections: The collections framework, collection interfaces, collection classes.

BOOKS

1.      Naughton & Schildt  “The Complete Reference Java 2”, Tata McGraw Hill

2.      Deitel  “Java- How to Program:” Pearson Education, Asia

3.      Horstmann & Cornell  “Core Java 2” (Vol I & II ) ,  Sun Microsystems

4.      lvan  Bayross  “Java 2.0” : BPB publications

5.      Ivor Horton’s “Beginning Java 2, JDK 5 Ed., Wiley India.

Note : Paper is to be set unit wise with internal choice.