Overview of Java EE (Enterprise Edition)

• Overview: Definitions, MVC Design Pattern, Server Products
• Platform Servers: Containers, Client Technologies
• API Services: Servlet, JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, JTA, JMS, JAXP, JCA, JAAS
• Web Application Processing Cycle
• Deployment Objects: JAR/WAR/EAR
• Server Component Directory Structure, XML Descriptors
• Development Roles
• Sample Apps.

Using JDBC to Access Databases

• Overview: Packages, Coding Essentials, Drivers, Connections, Statements and ResultSets
• Making Connections, Driver Types, Loading Drivers, Connection String URLs
• Statements and ResultSets, Executing Queries/Updates, Accessing Rows/Columns, Handling Nulls, Exceptions
• PreparedStatement and Efficiencies
• Stored Procedures, CallableStatements
• Advanced ResultSets, Scrollable Cursors, Updatable Rows
• Transactions, commit/rollback
• Database MetaData

Implementing Distributed Objects using RMI

• Overview: Distributed Objects, RMI vs DCOM vs Corba
• RMI Architecture: Stubs and Skeletons, RRL and Transport Layers, Naming Service and Registry, Memory Mgmt, Development checklist
• RMI Servers, Remote Interfaces, RemObj Implementation, Servers, Binding
• RMI Clients
• Deployment Issues, Compiling/Testing, ClassLoaders and Servers, Classpaths
• BiDirectional Messaging
• Object Activation, rmid, Setup programs

Developing Servlets

• Overview: Request/Response systems, HTTP, Browser/Server protocols
• Servlet Architecture: Interfaces and Classes, Generic/HTTP Servlet classes, Life Cycle, Property files, Configuration and Context info
• Coding Servlets: Request/Response classes/methods, GET and POST processing
• File/DB Processing
• Maintaining State: Cookies, HTTPSession object
• Servlet Collaboration: Including and Forwarding Responses and Requests

Developing JavaServer Pages (JSP)

• Overview: API package, App Servers, Classes and Translation Phases, Example
• JSP Coding: Tag Syntax, Directives Page/Include
• Scripting Elements, Expressions, Declarations, Scriptlets
• Actions, useBean, get/setProperty, include/forward
• JSP Design Patterns, Model I/II, Page-Centric vs MVC
• Example Application

Java XML Processing

• Overview: Standards, Parsers, APIs, SAX and DOM Features, Sun Java APIs
• XML Overview: Modeling/Presentation/Processing Software, Technologies
• XML Syntax, ProcInstructions, Declarations, Elements/Attributes
• Examples XML, DTD, XSD
• Coding With SAX
• *
• Overview/Steps
• Xerces and JAXP API and packages
• XMLReader
• Content and Error Handlers
• Event Callback Methods
• Properties and Features
• Examples
• Coding With DOM
• *
• Overview/Step
• Xerces and JAXP API and packages
• DOMParser
• DOMImplementation
• Document object
• Collections
• DOM Classes
• Mutability
• Node/Element Methods
• Document Methods
• Creating Nodes
• DocTypes
• Serialization
• Examples

Event Delegation Model, Sources, Objects and Listeners

• Program Structure and Coding, Implementing Interfaces, Inner Classes, Anonymous Adapters

Java Networking and Sockets

• Overview: Network Stack and Protocols, IP/TCP/UDP, Appl, Services
• Package Classes and Exceptions
• INET Address Translations
• URL and URLConnections, HTTP Header Info, Downloading FileData
• Socket Programming, Client vs Server Coding, Threading
• Datagram Sockets and UDP
• CGI-like GET/POST Processing

Using Java Threads

• Overview: Process vs Thread
• Object Threading Model, Thread Class, Data, run() code
• Creating Threads, Runnable Interface vs Extending Thread Class
• Thread States: New, Runnable, Blocked, Dead
• Thread Class Methods, start/stop, suspend/resume, yield, sleep
• Thread Priority and Scheduling, Daemons, Groups
• Synchronization and Thread Safe coding, Locks
• Producer/Consumer Model, wait/notify Processing
• SE5 Concurrency Package, Executors, ThreadPools, Scheduling, Callables

Additional Topics

• Spring Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Test Driven Development
• Agile Considerations
• Design Patterns (23 available ? pick top 5)
• Performance Considerations
• JVM Tuning
• JMeter for Load Testing
• Maven
• JavaServer Faces (JSF) Overview