Developing Applications for the Java EE 7 Platform Ed 1

Introduction to Java EE

• Standards, containers, APIs and services.
• Application component capabilities associated with tiers and containers.
• Connecting application components with CDI annotations and JNDI.
• Web container, business logic implementation and web service technologies.
• Integration and deployment.
• Enterprise JavaBeans, managed beans and CDI beans.
• Understanding lifecycle and memory scope.
• Connecting components through annotations, injection and JNDI.

Managing persistence using JPA entities

• Creating JPA entities with object-relational mappings (ORM).
• Using the entity manager to perform database operations with JPA entities.
• Managing entity data through conversion, validation and key generation.
• Describing persistence management and locking mechanisms.
• Creating and executing JPQL statements.

Implementing business logic with EJBs

• Creating session EJB components.
• Creating EJB business methods.
• Managing the EJB lifecycle through container callbacks.
• Using asynchronous EJB operations.
• Controlling transactions and creating EJB timers.
• Creating and applying interceptors.

Using the Java Message Service API

• Describing JMS messaging models.
• Implementing Java SE and Java EE message producers and consumers.
• Using durable consumer and shared topic subscriptions.
• Creating message-driven beans and using transactions with JMS.

Implementing SOAP services with JAX-WS

• Describing SOAP web service structure.
• Creating SOAP web services using JAX-WS.
• Creating SOAP web service clients.

Creating Java web applications with servlets

• Describing HTTP fundamentals.
• Creating Java servlet classes and mapping them to URLs.
• Managing HTTP headers, parameters and cookies.
• Using servlets to process different content types.
• Managing the servlet lifecycle through container callback methods.
• Using CDI managed beans.
• Using interceptors and filters.
• Implementing asynchronous servlets and using the NIO API.

Creating Java web applications with JSP

• Describing the JSP lifecycle.
• Describing JSP syntax.
• Using Expression Language (EL).
• Using CDI beans.
• Using tag libraries.
• Handling errors.

Implementing REST services with JAX-RS

• Understanding REST service conventions.
• Creating REST services using JAX-RS.
• Consuming REST services on the client side.

Creating Java applications with WebSockets

• Understanding the WebSocket communication style.
• Creating WebSocket endpoint handlers using JSR 356.
• Managing WebSocket endpoint lifecycle.
• Producing and consuming WebSocket messages.
• Handling errors.
• Encoding and decoding JSON messages.
• Providing a WebSocket client endpoint handler using JavaScript.

Developing web applications with JavaServer Faces

• Describing the JSF lifecycle and architecture and understanding JSF syntax.
• Using JSF tag libraries.
• Applying validators and converters to UI components.
• Using UI templates.
• Defining navigation and managing localisation.
• Producing messages.
• Using Expression Language (EL) and CDI beans.
• Adding AJAX support.

Securing Java EE applications

• Understanding Java EE security architecture.
• Configuring authentication using login modules.
• Defining application roles and security constraints.
• Using programmatic security.
• Web service security standards.

Appendices and additional content

• Java logging.
• CDI beans.
• Bean Validation and JPA.
• Batch and Concurrency APIs.
• JAXB.
• Pre-CDI servlet examples.