Course in Best Practices in Java Programming

This is an ‘Advanced’ Level course, designed to teach, How to:
- Apply Java best practices to increase productivity and build fast, secure and reliable applications
- Automate deploying, testing and detecting bugs in software applications
- Solve architectural problems with proven design patterns and advanced language features
- Maximize software performance
- Improve the reliability of threaded applications
- Code securely in Java and authenticate with industry-standard security frameworks.

Effective programming in JAVA

• Clarifying the goals of best practices
• Identifying the key characteristics of high-quality software

Optimising software Development

• Simplifying project build and deployment
• Applying test-driven development

Improving Code Quality

• Expert recommendations
• Attaining type safety
• Enforcing encapsulation
• Creating flexible frameworks
• Refactoring and design patterns
• Automating code quality checks

Tuning for maximum performance

• Measuring performance
• Strategies for improving performance
• Effective use of the Collections API

Incorporating best security methods

• Bulletproofing applications
• Authentication and authorization

Extending Application functionality

• Injecting behavior with dynamic proxies
• Adding scripting abilities to an application
• Managing Java applications with JMX