J2SE 5.0 Management, Internals, and Troubleshooting

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J2SE 5.0 Management, Internals, and Troubleshooting :: [DTJ-280]

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code.

DTJ-280

length.

2 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$1,200 :: $1,020 GSA GOV.

J2SE 5.0 Management, Internals and Troubleshooting course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to understand and support the 5.0 release of J2SE. In this course, students will learn to install and configure the JDK, and use the debugging, profiling, monitoring, management, troubleshooting, and performance tuning tools available in the J2SE 5.0 JDK. Students will also learn about upgrade, interoperability, and migration issues with J2SE 5.0.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are those working as Java technology consultants, architects, and any Sun Java programmers, application developers, and system administrators who manage Java technology applications.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should have a working knowledge of the Java programming language and some familiarity with the concepts of memory management, threads, debugging, and performance tuning.

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

	Install the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE platform) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), the Microsoft Windows platform, and the Linux platform
	Understand the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) architecture and garbage collection mechanism
	Use J2SE 5.0 functionality to tune the JVM to meet specific application requirements
	Monitor and manage Java technology applications using Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology
	Understand and utilize debugging tools in the JDK
	Create custom troubleshooting and profiling agents
	Describe and perform troubleshooting

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

SL-275 Java Programming Language

course content details

	Module 1 - Installing and Configuring the JDK

	Install the J2SE JDK 5.0 on the Solaris OS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux
	Describe the JDK 5.0 directory structure
	Describe Sun-supported processor and OS configurations for the JDK

	Module 2 - Examining and Tuning the JVM

	Examine the JVM architecture
	Examine garbage collection
	Review JVM hidden options
	Tune the JVM

	Module 3 - Monitoring and Management Using JMX

	Examine the JMX architecture
	Use managed beans (MBeans) to instrument an application component
	Examine MXBeans
	Use the JConsole program to monitor and manage the JVM and application components
	Configure the JMX connector

	Module 4 - Debugging Applications With the Java Debugger

	Collect information in preparation for debugging
	Correlate source code lines to bytecode
	Use the Java debugger

	Module 5 - Creating Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning Tools

	Examine the Java 5.0 observability API and tools
	Examine agent tools
	Examine class file structure
	Create an agent using the java.lang.instrument API
	Create an agent using the JVM TI API

	Module 6 - Diagnosing and Troubleshooting the JDK Software

	Classify failure symptoms
	Associate troubleshooting tools and options with the failure symptoms
	Acquire skills in using troubleshooting tools and options
	Diagnose application crashes
	Diagnose hangs and looping processes
	Diagnose application use case failures