Students who can benefit from this course are developers of EJB technology business components who are tasked withthe following responsibilities:

• Analyzing, designing, developing, and testing EJB technology applications
• Deploying an EJB technology application
• Integrating an EJB technology application with a legacy application

• Display experience with the Java programming language
• Display experience with creating simple Java 2 EnterpriseEdition (J2EE) applications using session or entity beans(practical experience required; theoretical knowledgewould be insufficient) as provided in the course FJ-310"Developing Applications for the J2EE Platform"
• Display experience with distributed computing conceptsin Java technology

Module 1 - Examining EJB Components

• Describe EJB component client interfaces
• Compare EJB component types
• Describe the basic characteristics of session beans
• Describe the basic characteristics of entity beans
• Describe the life cycle of stateless and stateful session beans and entity beans
• Describe container callback methods for session beans and entity beans

Module 2 - Packaging and Deploying EJB Components

• Examine the enterprise bean application packaging and deployment process
• Create the EJB component archive (EJB JAR) files
• Create the preliminary application client archive (initial client JAR) file
• Create the deployable application archive (application EAR) file
• Deploy applications built with J2EE technology (J2EE applications)
• Examine vendor-specific deployment issues

Module 3 - Introducing the Auction Application

• Describe the auction application
• Define the domain objects of the auction application
• Describe the implementation model for the auction system

Module 4 - Implementing EJB 2.0 Container-Managed Persistence (CMP)

• Model business data
• Implement EJB 2.0 CMP
• Describe the CMP code examples

Module 5 - Implementing Container-Managed Relationships (CMR)

• Model business relationships in the data model
• Model business relationships in the object model
• Define relationships
• Implement one-to-one CMR
• Implement many-to-many CMR
• Change partner entities in CMR

Module 6 - Using the EJB Query Language (EJB QL)

• Implement finder methods
• Implement Enterprise bean Select methods
• Implement home methods
• Write queries using EJB QL

Module 7 - Developing J2EE Applications Using Messaging

• Describe the roles of the participants in the JMS APImessaging system
• Write a message producer
• Write an asynchronous message listener
• Write a synchronous message listener
• List the messaging capabilities and limitations of session, entity, and message-driven beans

Module 8 - Developing Message-Driven Beans

• Describe the properties and life cycle of message-driven beans
• Create a JMS message-driven bean
• Create a non-JMS message-driven bean

Module 9 - Implementing Transactions

• Describe the transaction demarcation task
• Implement Container-Managed Transactions (CMT)
• Interact programmatically with an ongoing CMT transaction
• Implement Bean-Managed Transactions (BMT)
• Apply transactions to messaging

Module 10 - Handling Exceptions

• Introduce exceptions in J2EE applications
• Describe the exception path in a J2EE applicationenvironment
• Describe EJB container exception handling
• Handle exceptions in an enterprise beans method
• Handle exceptions in an enterprise beans client code
• Review specific issues relating to exception handlingin EJB technology applications

Module 11 - Using Timer Services

• Create a timer callback notification
• Process a timer callback notification
• Manage timer objects

Module 12 - Implementing Security

• Understand the J2EE security architecture
• Authenticate the caller
• Examine J2EE authorization strategies
• Use declarative authorization
• Use programmatic authorization
• Examine the responsibilities of the deployer

Module 13 - Integrating With Legacy Systems

• Examine the requirements for EIS connectivity modules
• Compare alternative implementations of EIS connectivitymodules
• Describe the J2EE technology connector architecture
• Use the Common Client Interface (CCI) API interfaces
• Use a message-driven bean resource adapter
• Describe the interoperability between the EJB technologyand Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) protocols

Module 14 - Implementing Web Service Endpoint Interfaces

• Examine the enterprise bean web service implementation model
• Implement web services using stateless session beans

Module 15 - Using EJB Technology Best Practices

• Define best practices and state the benefits of using EJB technology best practices
• Select and apply known patterns to J2EE application design