Students who can benefit from this course are EJB technology business component developers who are tasked with the 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
• Integrate existing Java code (for example, reuse existing classes created by other team members)
• Design Java technology applications
• Although not required, experience with distributed computing concepts in Java technology is an advantage

• Implement business-tier functionality using EJB technology
• Describe best practices and other advanced issues in business component development with EJB technology
• Assemble and deploy EJB technology business-tier components on an application server
• Integrate an EJB technology-based application using the Java Messaging Service API
• Create and use Query objects using the Java Persistence Query Language

Module 1 - Examining EJB Applications

• Introduce the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
• Examine the Java EE application architecture
• Examine the Java EE application creation process

Module 2 - 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 3 - Implementing EJB 3.0 Session Beans

• Create session beans: Essential tasks
• Create session beans: Add life-cycle event handlers
• Package and deploy session beans
• Create a session bean client

Module 4 - Implementing Entity Classes: The Basics

• Define entity classes: Essential tasks
• Manage the life-cycle of an entity instance
• Define entity beans: Add life-cycle event handlers
• Package and deploy entity classes

Module 5 - Implementing Entity Classes: Modelling Data Association Relationships

• Examine association relationships in the data and object models
• Use relationship properties to define associations
• Implement unidirectional and bidirectional associations

Module 6 - Implementing Entity Classes: Modelling Inheritance Relationships

• Examining entity class inheritance
• Inheriting from an entity class
• Inheriting from an abstract entity class
• Inheriting from a non-entity class
• Inheriting using an embedded superclass
• Examining Inheritance mapping strategies
• Define entity classes: Using an embedded class
• Define entity classes: Using a composite primary key

Module 7 - Using the Java Persistence Query Language (QL)

• Examine the Java Persistence query language
• Create and use the SELECT statement
• Create and use the BULK UPDATE statement
• Create and use the DELETE statement
• Create and use Query objects

Module 8 - Developing Java EE Applications Using Messaging

• Describe the roles of the participants in the JMS API messaging 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 9 - 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 10 - Implementing Interceptor Classes and Methods

• Create business interceptor method in the enterprise bean class
• Create an interceptor class
• Associate multiple business interceptor methods with an enterprise bean
• Include life-cycle callback interceptor methods in an interceptor class
• Create entity life-cycle callback methods

Module 11 - 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 12 - Handling Exceptions

• Introduce exceptions in Java EE applications
• Describe the exception path in a Java EE application environment
• Describe EJB container exception handling
• Handle exceptions in an enterprise beans methods
• Handle exceptions in an enterprise beans client code
• Review specific issues relating to exception handling in EJB technology applications

Module 13 - Using Timer Services

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

Module 14 - Implementing Security

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

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 Java EE application design