Developing Applications with Java EE

Overview

• The JEE Environment
• System Architecture
• Putting It All Together

Remote Method Invocation

• The Distributed Computing Model
• Designing the Remote interface
• Building a Remote Object
• Dynamically Downloading Classes
• The RMI Registry

JNDI

• Similarities with JDBC
• Features of naming services
• The Initial Context
• Naming Example
• Directory Services
• JNDI and J2EE
• Object Storage
• Exercise

Database Connectivity (JDBC)

• Connecting to Databases
• Statements
• Result Sets
• Releasing Database Resources
• Metadata
• Prepared Statement Objects
• Stored Procedures
• Pooled Connections
• Transactions
• Transaction Isolation and Data Locking
• Exercise

Servlets

• Servlets and HTTP Requests
• The HTTP Servlet Model
• The MVC Architecture
• The HTTP Servlet Hierarchy

Servlet Usage

• Writing an HTTP Servlet
• Executing an HTTP Servlet
• Request Parameters

Servlet Parameters

• Servlet Initialization Parameters
• Servlet Context Parameters
• Web Application State Using Servlets
• Session Management

Servlet Issues

• Threading Issues
• Exception Handling
• Error pages
• Exercise

Java Server Pages (JSP)

• How JSPs work
• Creating a Java Server Page
• JSP / XML Elements
• Servlet To JSP Request Dispatching
• Action Elements
• Implicit Objects
• Error Pages

JSP Tag Libraries

• Custom Tags and Tag Libraries
• Commercially available tag libraries
• Exercise

JSP Expression Language

• JSP Expression Language
• EL expressions
• Variables
• Functions
• Exercise

Java Server Faces (JSF)

• Introducing JSF
• JSF tag libraries
• The Faces Servlet
• Page navigation
• Managed beans
• Event handling
• Validation

Java Messaging Services (JMS)

• Messaging scenario
• Message Domains
• Configuring a JMS Application
• Messaging Activity
• Asynchronous Message Consumption
• Transactions
• Messages

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

• Why EJBs?
• The EJB Architecture
• The EJB server
• The EJB container

EJB Components

• EJB Component types
• EJB Interfaces
• Local and Client views
• Session Beans
• Message Driven Beans
• Other classes

EJB Session Beans

• Creating a Session Bean
• Calling EJBs from Servlets
• The Singleton Session Bean
• Packaging and deploying Session Beans
• Exercise

Java Persistence API

• Java Persistence Specification
• Object Relational Mapping
• Creating an Entity Class
• Controlling the JPA Life Cycle
• The Entity Manager API
• Deploying Entity Classes
• Exercise

AVA Transaction API

• Transaction Scoping
• Creating Programmatic Transactions
• Creating Declarative Transactions
• Locking and Performance
• Handling Exceptions
• Exercise

Java Messaging Service

• Messaging scenario
• Message Domains
• Configuring a JMS Application
• Messaging Activity
• Asynchronous Message Consumption
• Transactions

Message-Driven Beans

• Characteristics of Message-Driven Beans
• Creating Message-Driven Beans
• Utilising Life Cycle Events
• Exercise

Web Services

• Examples of Web Services
• Reasons to Use Web Services
• The Web Services Protocol Stack
• SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
• Exercise

Follow-On Courses

Java Web Development - Servlets & JSP