Chris Ramacciotti
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Member Since May 16, 2015
Chris has been passionately involved in computer science education since 2008. He taught CS in public high schools of Omaha and Chicago. Chris also worked as a full-stack Java web developer in the financial sector before joining the Treehouse team.
Topics & Specialties
Courses & Workshops I've Taught
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Building with Maven
Developing applications for distribution usually involves the use of a build tool. In the Java world, this is likely either Gradle or Maven. In this workshop, we'll explore the basic use of Maven as a tool to compile, test, and package your application. We'll cover the standard directory layout of a Maven project, the Project Object Model (POM), and dependency management with Maven.
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Deploying a Spring Application
During this workshop, you'll learn a few ways to build and deploy your Spring application. Specifically, we'll cover three scenarios: Deploying with an embedded web server, Deploying to an existing Wildfire (JBoss) web server, and Deploying to Heroku
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Hibernate Basics
Most meaningful applications you will write will have a database associated with it. Knowing how to connect with and incorporate this data is critical to success as a Java developer. In this course, we'll cover how to connect a Java application to a database using what's called JDBC, or Java Database Connectivity. Then, we'll use the convenient approach of including an ORM, or Object Relational Mapper. This will allow us to interact with our data using object-oriented techniques instead of exclusively relying on hard-coded SQL. The ORM we will use is called Hibernate, and is one of the most popular ORMs available.
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HTTP Basics
During this course, we'll look at the underlying method devices use to communicate with each other: HTTP or the HyperText Transfer Protocol. In particular, we'll focus on how a modern web browser automates the sending of HTTP requests and the receiving of HTTP responses.
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Java Annotations
Annotations have rapidly become the preferred approach to integrating powerful third-party libraries into your own Java applications. In this course, we'll first explore the basic use of annotations to give the compiler instructions. Then, we'll use more advanced techniques to create our own annotation and look for it using reflection.