Students who can benefit from this course are architects, application server administrators, application deployers, support engineers, andtechnical staff who need to be Application Server product specialists.

• Familiar with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
• Familiar with the Sun Java System Application Server PE 8.1
• Able to package and deploy a Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) application to an application server
• Familiar with Internet protocols
• Familiar with Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology
• Familiar with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology
• Familiar with RMI/IIOP technology
• Familiar with JMS

• Describe the enterprise features and architecture of the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Install the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Configure and administer a cluster
• Configure monitoring and logging settings for the the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Deploy applications to the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Set up and configure request-level load balancing and failover along HTTP and RMI/IIOP paths
• Set up and configure a highly available cluster to support HTTP session persistence and Stateful Session Bean (SFSB) failover
• Configure JMS connection failover
• Migrate the applications from earlier versions of the Application Server to the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Tune the performance of the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Troubleshoot the Application Server SE/EE 8.1

Module 1 - Introducing Application Server SE/EE 8.1

• Describe the three editions of Application Server 8.1
• Describe how Application Server SE/EE 8.1 fits into the Java Enterprise System (JES) suites
• Describe key concepts of Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Discuss the key features of Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Discuss the developer productivity features provided in Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Describe the upgrade and migration tools provided by the Application Server SE/EE 8.1

Module 2 - Management Architecture

• Describe the main components and concepts of the Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Define the entity relationships
• Illustrate the management architecture
• Define the Domain Administration Server (DAS)
• Define the central repository
• Define the node agent
• Explain how synchronization works between different components
• Explain how the JMX API is used in Application Server SE/EE 8.1

Module 3 - Installing Application Server SE/EE 8.1

• Describe the key features of the Application Server SE/EE 8.1 installation
• List the product components of Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• List the supported platforms for installation
• List the system requirements
• Describe the product distribution
• Describe the installation modes
• Describe the directory structure after installation
• Locate the installation log files
• Identify the sample applications

Module 4 - Configuration and Administration

• Describe the administration infrastructure
• Describe the domain configuration
• Describe the domain.xml file
• Describe server instance specialization
• Define dynamic reconfiguration
• Use the administration tools, including the asadmin utility and the Administration Console (Admin Console)
• Configure and administer clusters
• Configure a node agent
• Back up and restore the domain
• Define administrative security

Module 5 - Deployment

• Describe the deployment features in Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Describe the JSR-88 Deployment API
• Describe the deployment life cycle
• Deploy an enterprise application
• List the key features of the deploytool 8.1 utility (DeployTool)
• Discuss deployment features across various Application Server 8.1 versions

Module 6 - HTTP Load Balancing

• Discuss the concepts of load balancing
• Describe the features of Application Server 8.1 load balancing
• Explain the mechanism of load balancing
• Install the load balancer plug-in
• Configure HTTP load balancing
• Define rolling upgrade
• Perform a rolling upgrade in mixed mode
• Perform a rolling upgrade in non-mixed mode
• Enable HTTP load balancing logging

Module 7 - HADB Basics

• Describe important features of the HADB
• Illustrate the HADB hardware architecture
• Describe how to achieve HA for the HADB
• Configure a system for the HADB
• Describe the management architecture
• Locate the HADB directory and files in Application Server SE/EE 8.1
• Configure and start Management Agent (MA)
• Explain how the management client (hadbm) communicates with the MA
• Perform simple management tasks
• Use the asadmin command to configure an HA cluster

Module 8 - HTTP Session Persistence

• Describe the fundamentals of a session and session persistence
• List the supported features of session persistence
• Explain the persistence mechanisms
• Compare the session persistence types
• Enable HA for SSO sessions
• Describe the criteria for distributed sessions
• Describe the availability's different levels
• Configure HTTP session persistence for HA

Module 9 - RMI/IIOP Load Balancing and Failover

• Describe the basics of RMI/IIOP
• Explain RMI/IIOP load balancing and failover subsystems
• Describe server-side configuration
• Configure standalone clients and the Application Client Container (ACC)
• Perform rolling upgrades for applications accessed by application clients

Module 10 - EJB Container High Availability

• Describe the new EJB container features common to Application Server 8.1
• Describe SFSB failover
• Configure SFSB failover
• Discuss the EJB timer service
• Describe transaction recovery

Module 11 - JMS Clustering and Failover

• Describe JMS and the Sun Java System Message Queue 3.6 (Message Queue 3.6)
• Describe the features of Message Queue 3.6
• Describe the integration of Message Queue 3.6 with Application Server 8.1
• Discuss resource adapters in Application Server 8.1
• Configure JMS
• Explain connection failover behavior
• Describe the multiple-broker configuration

Module 12 - Upgrade and Migration

• Describe Application Server 8.1 compatibility with earlier versions
• Differentiate between application server upgrade and migration
• Describe the features of Upgrade Tool
• Describe the need for application server migration
• Identify entities that require migration
• Identify issues in migrating applications from earlier versions of Application Server
• Describe the Java Application Verification Kit for the Enterprise (Java AVK Enterprise)
• Describe the features of Migration Tool
• Use Migration Tool to migrate applications
• Use Migration Tool to migrate applications from other platforms

Module 13 - Tuning Performance

• Identify the performance role of the key web components
• Discuss performance tuning in Application Server 8.1
• Describe techniques to tune applications
• Tune Application Server 8.1
• Describe techniques to tune for HA
• Tune the HADB
• Identify the various tools to tune the performance of ApplicationServer 8.1

Module 14 - Troubleshooting

• Use various resources to identify Application Server SE/EE 8.1 problems
• Troubleshoot installation problems
• Troubleshoot Application Server SE/EE 8.1 start problems
• Troubleshoot administrative client problems (asadmin and the Admin Console)
• Troubleshoot Application Server problems
• Resolve load balancer errors
• Troubleshoot HADB problems