Building Modern Java Enterprise Apps: JPA, EJB3, & JSF Training

Gain in-depth knowledge integrating JPA and EJB with modern web technologies. In this Java Enterprise training course, you learn how to build apps with Java that are high-performing, scalable, and secure transactional web-based applications Discover how Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) offers a simple and comprehensive approach to building state-of-the-art enterprise applications in this four-day, hands-on course.

• Real-world programming experience at the level of:
  • Course 471 , Java Programming Introduction
• You should have:
  • An understanding of Java classes and the inheritance model
  • The ability to use standard Java APIs
  • Some knowledge of web technologies, including HTML and JavaScript

Building Modern Java Enterprise Apps: JPA, EJB3, & JSF Training Delivery Methods

• After-course instructor coaching benefit
• Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
• After-course computing sandbox included

Building Modern Java Enterprise Apps: JPA, EJB3, & JSF Training Course Benefits

• Architect, deploy, and secure enterprise applications with Java EE
• Store and retrieve Java objects in relational databases using JPA
• Effectively build business logic using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB3)
• Create rich web-based interfaces using JSF

Java Enterprise Course Outline

Enterprise Application Development

• Establishing components of an enterprise architecture
• Streamlining the development process with Java EE

Mapping with Java Persistence API (JPA)

Demystifying the JPA architecture

• Identifying the major components of JPA
• Establishing access with the EntityManager

Applying JPA core operations

• Persisting and retrieving entity objects
• Employing JPA to manually manage transactions
• Updating and deleting entity objects in the database

Handling Complex Object Relationships

Effectively representing object associations

• Capturing single- and multi-valued associations
• Representing Java collections

Choosing appropriate inheritance strategies

• Employing techniques for class-to-database mapping
• Contrasting the database schema for different inheritance strategies

Working with Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

• Selecting data with the JPQL API
• Building maintainable database access with named queries
• Avoiding SQL insertion attacks with query parameters

Building a Scalable and Dynamic Middle Tier with EJB

Implementing the business tier with EJB stateless and stateful beans

• Encapsulating scalable business logic with JavaBeans
• Accessing session beans remotely
• Managing conversation across multiple requests with stateful beans

Applying advanced strategies of session beans

• Adding behaviours with method interceptors
• Triggering timer-based and asynchronous services

Exploring other EJB types

• Managing resources with Singleton beans
• Implementing robust message receivers with MDB

Managing Transactions and Security with EJB

Applying declarative transactions with JPA

• Approaches to working with Java Transaction API (JTA)
• Managing transaction strategies with annotations

Securing a Java EE application

• Enforcing application security with Java EE
• Configuring authentication and authorisation across the tiers

Generating Modern User Interfaces with JavaServer Faces (JSF)

JSF architecture

• Exploring the request processing cycle
• Managing application flow using JSF navigation model

Constructing a JSF application

• Creating views with JSF custom tags
• Handling user events with backing beans
• Taking advantage of the Unified Expression Language

Building views with facelets

• Arranging the UI component layout
• Localising messages using Resource Bundles
• Achieving code reuse with templates

Leveraging Ajax to improve the user experience

• Sharpening response with the asynchronous web model
• Combining Ajax functionality with JSF

Building Responsive Websites with JavaScript Libraries

Exchanging information with JSON

• JSON: The format for Web 2.0
• Syntax and samples of JSON formatting

The responsive web

• Combining HTML formatting with JavaScript actions
• Building client-side Models, Views and Routes

Communicating with Java EE via REST

• Accessing a REST service with an Ajax call
• Generating a JSON response on the server side

Examining a Complete Application

• Creating an example list-detail application
• Tailoring the sample application to make it your own