J2EE Programming using Eclipse and JBoss

1. Introduction to J2EE and JBoss AS • Java Web applications • Java Web application architecture • J2EE architecture • Web application programming model - MVC • A scenario of using MVC • Typical services provided by application servers • Web application development and deployment • EAR projects • EJB projects 2. Servlet Basics • Servlet overview • HTTP Servlet API • Servlet life cycle • Examples • Developing Servlets 3. JSP Basics • JSP overview • JSP directives • JSP expressions • JSP scriptlets • JSP declarations • Examples • Developing and testing JSP 4. JSTL and Expression Language(EL) • Understand JSTL basics • JSTL Tags • Expression Language • EL and JSP's • EL Syntax 5. Servlet Interaction • Understand the details of Servlet programming objects: o Request o Response o ServletContext o Session o Cookies 6. Advanced Servlet Programming • Understand the practice programming model for web applications • MVC Model • Understand the server-side implementation of MVC by integrating servlets and JSPs • JDBC Architecture • JDBC Connection Pooling and Data Sources • Integrating Servlets and JSP's 7. JSP Techniques • Present several JSP programming techniques for: o Error handling o Form input validation o Session management • Examples 8. Using Java Beans with JSP • Present the concept of a Java Bean o Structure o Life Cycle o Properties • Describe using Java Beans in a JSP o jsp:useBean tag o Java Bean scope o jsp:useBean in action o jsp:getProperty tag o jsp:setProperty tag • Mixing Scriplets and Bean tags 9. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Overview • EJB fundamentals • Overview of EJB container and EJB server responsibilities • Overview of entity EJB's and session EJB's • EJB deployment descriptor 10. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Session Beans • Session bean contexts and lifecycle • Writing stateless session beans • Writing stateful beans • Examples • Creating session beans 11. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Entity Beans • Entity bean contexts and lifecycle • Writing container-managed entity beans • Writing bean-managed entity beans • Examples • Creating entity beans 12. Best Practices • Stateful Session Beans • Transaction Isolation Levels • Which EJB objects to cache • Deploying the Web and EJB containers • CMP EJB Pooling • Access Beans • Using HTTP Session • Connection Pooling • Java Best Practices 13. J2EE Design Patterns • EJB Layer Architectural Patterns • Inter-tier Data Transfer Patterns • Transaction and Persistence Patterns • Client-side EJB Interaction Patterns • Primary Key Generation Strategies