Enterprise JavaBeans

Experienced Java Developers who wants to learn Enterprise Java Beans 3.

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

• Set up the EJB environment
• Develop session beans
• Develop an entity, manage entity relationships and use Java Persistence API
• Develop a message-driven bean
• Process transactions

Insight in J2EE and JEE5 is preferable. Good Java knowledge.

Introduction

• Application architecture types
• EJB application overview
• Java EE overview
• EJB 3 overview
• Current server compliance and implementations
• Workshop: Setting up development environment

Java EE Dependency injection

• Dependency injection characteristics and reasons for using it
• Components that can be injected
• Components that can use injection

Session Bean

• Session bean overview
• Stateless session beans
• Stateful session beans
• Workshop: Creating stateless and stateful session beans

EJB Client applications

• Client view
• EJB client types
• Building clients
• Workshop: Creating different clients

Message-Driven Bean (MDB)

• MDB Overview
• Workshop: Working with message driven beans

EJB 3.0 Interceptors

• Overview
• Workshop: Working with interceptors

Entities

• Entity Overview
• Entity lifecycle
• Design guidelines
• Entity annotations

Java Persistence API (JPA)

• JPA overview
• Persistence Unit
• Entity inheritance
• Abstract entity classes
• Using native SQL queries
• Java Persistence API and Java SE
• Workshop: EJB 3 entity and EntityManager API
• Entity relationships overview
• Workshop: Working with EJB Entity Relationships

Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

• JPQL overview

Java EE Transactions

• Java EE Transaction Overview
• Container Managed Transactions
• Bean Managed Transactions
• Workshop: Working with transactions

Java EE design patterns

• Overview
• MVC
• Access object
• Session façade
• Other good patterns

Extra workshops

• Workshop: EJB 3 bean without tools
• Workshop: EJB 3.0 timer model and callbacks