EJB Programming with Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7

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Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

This is an advanced intro to EJB technology, introducing concepts to those who have never used EJB. Also included are advanced concepts students can use to complete large-scale EJB projects.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for intermediate to advanced Java programmers. System architects will find the advanced concepts especially beneficial in designing a framework.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the EJB 2.1 specification at an expert level.
• Understand how to utilize EJBs with RAD.
• Gain knowledge of J2EE Design Patterns and Best Practices.

Prerequisites:

Students should understand the core Java libraries; be familiar with web application programming; and have experience using IBM RAD.

Course Outline:

• RAD v7
  1. WebSphere Studio Family
  2. Eclipse Platform
  3. WebSphere Studio Product Family
  4. Key Features in RAD v7
  5. WSAD Integration Edition
  6. WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer
  7. Views, Perspective and Editor Areas
  8. Basic Operations with RAD
  9. Java & Debug Perspectives
  10. Package Explorer
  11. Navigator, Outline, and Task Views
  12. Build and Validation
  13. Templates and Code Completion
  14. Searching
  15. Setup Compiler Class Path
  16. JRE Switching
  17. Import and Export Project
  18. Features of Eclipse 3.0
  19. Eclipse SDK V3.0
  20. JDK 1.4 – New Features
  21. Control Flow of Logging
  22. Logging API
• J2EE and Rational Platform
  1. Java Web Applications
  2. J2EE Architecture
  3. WAP Model – MVC
  4. Infrastructure for Enterprise Web Applications
  5. IBM WebSphere Platform
  6. Rational Web Developer
  7. RAD and WAS
  8. WebSphere Editions
  9. WAS Services and Architecture
  10. WebSphere Administrative Topology
  11. WebSphere Application Server Components
  12. Server Profile
  13. WAS Administration tools
  14. RAD J2EE Development
  15. RAD Project Structure
  16. WebSphere Test Environment in RAD
  17. EJB Test Client in RAD
• Overview
  1. Needs for EJB
  2. Distributed Computing, Transaction, and Security
  3. EJB Remote Method Call
  4. EJB Architecture Components
  5. EJB Client, JAR File, Server, and Container
  6. Session and Entity Beans
  7. EJB Classes and Interfaces
  8. Basic Components of Entity and Session Beans
  9. EJB Home Interface and Object
  10. EJB Remote Interface
  11. EJB Local Interface
  12. Remote and Local EJB Objects
  13. EJB Implementation Class
  14. EJB Container - Relationships
  15. Remote v. Local EJBs
  16. EJB Application Development
  17. Deploying Enterprise Beans
  18. Major Components of Deployed EJBs
• Session Bean
  1. Home, Remote, and Local Interfaces
  2. Session Bean Class
  3. ejbCreate() Method
  4. Business Methods
  5. EJB Context
  6. Session Bean Lifecycle
  7. Lifecycle - Stateless and Stateful
  8. Concurrency Issues
  9. Invoking Session Beans from client Application
  10. Home Object
  11. Create an EJB Object
  12. RAD for EJB Development
  13. Developing a Session Bean using RAD
  14. EJB Project in RAD
  15. Create an EJB project
  16. Create a Session Bean
  17. Code methods
  18. Promote methods to interfaces
  19. Deploying EJBs
  20. Run on server
  21. JNDI Explorer
  22. Test the home and component interface
  23. Exporting EJB JAR
  24. EJB JAR File Structure
• EJB 2.1 Changes
  1. Web Service Clients
  2. Component Interface
  3. Web Service Component Interface
  4. Web Service Client View
  5. Web Service References
  6. Web Service Reference Programming Interfaces
  7. Declaration Of Web Service References
  8. Container-Managed Timer Service
  9. EJB Timer Service
  10. TimedObject Interface
  11. Annotation Based EJB Development
  12. @ejb.create-method
  13. @ejb.finder, @ejb.home, @ejb.interface, @ejb.transaction
  14. Annotation Based EJB Development
  15. Annotation Based EJB Development
  16. Disabling Tag Sets
  17. Enhanced EAR File Editor
  18. Deployment Descriptor Of An Enterprise File
  19. Exporting an Enterprise Application into an EAR File
• Entity Bean
  1. Container
  2. Primary Key Class
  3. (Remote) Home Interface
  4. Local Home Interface
  5. Remote and Local Interfaces
  6. Entity Bean Class
  7. Entity Instance
  8. Entity Object Lifecycle
  9. Bean Instance Lifecycle
  10. Persistence
  11. Writing BMP and CMP Beans
  12. Persistent Fields
  13. Writing finder methods
  14. EJB Query Language
  15. Using EJBQL in a CMP bean
  16. Business Methods
  17. EntityContext
  18. Defining and Mapping CMP Fields
  19. Developing Entity Beans in RAD
  20. Adding a CMP Entity EJB
  21. EJB Deployment Descriptor
  22. Add an EJBQL query
  23. Import Database Schema
  24. Copy Database Schema
  25. Creating a database mapping
  26. Choosing a backend
  27. Choosing a mapping type
  28. Specifying the mapping
  29. EJB and EJB 2.0 Relationships
  30. WebSphere Extensions
• EJB Exception
  1. Exception Types
  2. Bean Class
  3. Containers and Clients
  4. Standard Exceptions
  5. Local EJBs
• EJB Security
  1. Goals of the EJB Security Specification
  2. Declarative EJB Security – Method Permission
  3. Configure Security Roles
  4. Configure Method Permissions
  5. Generated XML in ejb-jar.xml
  6. Unchecked option
  7. Excludes List
  8. EJB Delegation Policy
  9. Configuring EJB Delegation Policy with RAD
  10. Programmatic EJB Security
• Message-Driven Beans
  1. Messaging to the Rescue
  2. Message-Oriented Middleware
  3. Messaging Domains
  4. Publish/Subscribe
  5. Point-to-Point
  6. Java Message Service
  7. JMS Programming: Overview
  8. The JMS Interfaces
  9. Integrating JMS and EJB
  10. Durable Subscription
  11. Message-Driven Bean Interfaces
  12. javax.ejb.MessageDrivenBean
  13. javax.jms.MessageListener
  14. javax.jms.Message
  15. Lifecycle
  16. Class MessageCounter
  17. Processing the Message
  18. Deployment Descriptor Entry
  19. Binding the Queue or Topic
  20. JMS in RAD
  21. Configure a Service Integration Bus in RAD
  22. Add Application Server as Bus Member
  23. Create and Configure a Queue
  24. Configure the JMS Resources
  25. Configure Connection Factory
  26. Configure Activation Specification
  27. Configure the Activation for MDB
  28. Transactions and Security
  29. Load Balancing
  30. Clustering and Topics
  31. Clustering and Queues
  32. Poison Messages
  33. Building a Response
  34. Potential Problems
  35. Type Checking and Messages
  36. Testing Message-Driven Beans
• Best Practices
  1. Transaction Management
  2. Object Transaction
  3. EJB Transaction Basics
  4. Transaction Propagation
  5. Client, Bean, and Container Managed Transactions
  6. Transaction Outcome
  7. Vetoing a Transaction
  8. Transaction Isolation
  9. CMP EJB Access Intent
  10. Setting Access Intent
  11. Setting Data Source Isolation Level
• EJB Design Patterns
  1. Types of EJB patterns
  2. Session and Message Facade Pattern
  3. Session Facade
  4. EJB Command pattern
  5. Generic Attribute Access pattern
  6. Data Transfer Object
  7. Data Transfer Rowset
  8. Version Number pattern
  9. Fast Lane Pattern
  10. Data Access Command Beans
  11. EJBHomeFactory
  12. Business Delegate
  13. Sequence Blocks
  14. Stored Procedures for Autogenerated Keys
• Basic Admin.
  1. Administration Roles and Clients
  2. The Console
  3. Creating a Profile
  4. wasprofile command
  5. Managing an Application Server
  6. Enable Server Process Restart
  7. Basic Application Server Configuration
  8. Configure the JVM
  9. Web Container Transport Chain
  10. Configure Transport Chain
  11. Configure Session Management
  12. Configure an EJB Container
  13. Preparing to Host Applications
  14. Resource Scope and Variables
  15. Configure a Virtual Host
  16. Configure a JDBC Provider
  17. Select JDBC Provider Type
  18. JDBC Provider Options
  19. Data Source
  20. WebSphere Data Source
  21. Mail Providers
  22. The Administrative Console
  23. Installing an Enterprise Application into WAS
  24. Saving the Master Configuration
  25. Configuring the Web Server plugin
  26. WebSphere Apps on the file system
  27. The Plugin