Students who can benefit from this course are Java developers new to the Java Persistence API and Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0.

To fully succeed in this class, students should be

• Familiar with Servlet/JSP-based applications or other Web development platforms.
• Familiar with the Java programming language.

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Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Create an enterprise application using NetBeans
• Create a persistence unit for an application
• Create entity classes to represent your data
• Store and retrieve data using an entity manager
• Retrieve data using Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)
• Create entity relationships using the JPA

Module 1 - Getting Started

• Create an enterprise application with NetBeans
• Analyze your data model

Module 2 - Set Up Your Data

• Create a database using Java DB
• Create the persistence init using a JPA persistence provider
• Create a Student entity class

Module 3 - Build the Application

• Define interfaces to be used by the session bean
• Create a session bean to manage your entity class
• Implement CRUD operations using JPA
• Retrieve data using JPQL queries
• Connect the session bean to a web interface
• Deploy and test the application

Module 4 - Add a 1-to-1 Relationship to the Data Model

• Create an Address entity class
• Add an annotation to define a 1-to-1 unidirectional relationship
• Refactor your code to implement the changes

Module 5 - Add a 1-to-Many Relationship to the Data Model

• Create a Dorm entity class
• Add annotations to define a 1-to-many bidirectional relationship
• Refactor your code to implement the changes