Students who can benefit from this course are EJB version 2.x technology business component developers who want to develop EJB technology applications using EJB version 3.0.

• Display experience with developing EJB version 2.x applications

1. Implement business-tier functionality using EJB 3.0 technology
2. Describe best practices and other advanced issues in business component development with EJB 3.0 technology
3. Assemble and deploy EJB 3.0technology business-tier components on an application server
4. Integrate an EJB component

Module 1 - Examining Changes to the EJB Specification

• Review Java EE application architecture
• Examine the evolution of the EJB specification
• Examine the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5

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 a session bean
• Add life-cycle event handlers to a session bean
• Obtain a session context object
• Package and deploy session beans
• Create a session bean client
• Migrate an EJB version 2.x session bean to an EJB version 3.0 session bean

Module 4 - Implementing Entity Classes: The Basics

• Define entity classes
• Manage the life-cycle of an entity instance
• Package and deploy entity classes

Module 5 - Implementing Entity Classes: Modeling 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: Modeling 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 a mapped superclass
• Examine Inheritance mapping strategies

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

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

Module 8 - Developing Java EE Applications Using Messaging

• Write a message producer
• Write an asynchronous message consumer
• Write a synchronous message consumer

Module 9 - Developing Message-Driven Beans

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

Module 10 - Implementing Interceptor Classes and Methods

• Create a 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

• 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

• Examine exception-related differences between EJB version 2.x and EJB version 3.0

Module 13 - Using Timer Services

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

Module 14 - Implementing Security

• Examine Java EE authorization strategies
• Use declarative authorization
• Use programmatic authorization

Module 15 - EJB Version 2.x and 3.0 Interoperability

• Invoke an EJB 2.x session bean from an EJB 3.0 session bean
• Invoke an EJB 3.0 session bean using EJB 2.x interfaces