Building Java EE Applications

Audience

This training course is aimed at developers who need to create distributed applications for the Java EE 6 platform.

Prerequisites

Delegates must have experience using the Java programming language. Attending our Java Programming class would provide you with the ideal pre-requisite. Familiarity with creating distributed applications would be beneficial, but is not a requirement.

Duration

5 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Java Enterprise Edition defines a platform for multi-tier enterprise development. This training course describes how to use Java EE 6 to create Web applications, implement middle-tier application components, and persist data to a back-end database. The course covers the latest techniques and APIs in the Java EE 6 platform.

Course Content

• Java EE Architecture: Multi-tier architectures; Issues confronting distributed programming and web deployment; Java EE overview; Java EE application development; Java EE deployment 

• Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Overview: Database connections; JDBC drivers; Table access; JDBC types; Transactions; Connection pooling

• Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI): Introduction to JNDI; Performing naming operations; Using JNDI in Java EE 6 

• Remote Method Invocation (RMI): RMI architecture; Programming conventions; Programming the client; Programming the server; Security and firewalls; RMI over IIOP 

• Java Servlets: A request–response model for web usage; HTML forms; Servlet requests and responses; Parameterizing servlets; Servlet lifecycle; Session tracking; Cookies; HTTP headers; Annotation-based configuration via the Servlet 3.0 specification 

• Java Server Pages: Embedding active content or results in a web page; JSP syntax; JSP and servlets; Expression Language (EL); JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 

• JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0: Overview of JSF; Creating a simple JSF-based Web application; Overview of templating 

• Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs): What are EJBs? Types of EJBs 

• Session EJBs: Overview of session beans; Stateless session beans; Stateful session beans; Transactions; Security management; Simplified packaging via EJB 3.1 

• Persistence in Java EE: Entity beans; EntityManager and Persistence Units; Mapping entity classes to relational databases; Using the Java Persistence API (JPA) 

• Java Message Service (JMS): Reliable asynchronous messaging; JMS features; Point-to-point messaging; Publish–subscribe messaging; Quality-ofservice control; Message-driven beans 

• Web Services: Overview of Web services and SOAP; Creating a Web Service; Consuming a Web Service