IBM WebSphere & Rational Application Developer (RAD): with JavaEE (J2EE)

Whetstone (N20)

19/04/10

£

1,995

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Course Overview

The training course provides an intensive practical introduction to developing Java and Enterprise Java applications using IBM's WSAD / Rational Application Developer development environment for web applications.

Users are shown best practices throughout and given performance and design tips and guidelines.

Audience

Java SE Developers who are new to JavaEE (J2EE), who wish to create commercial Web and Server-side WebSphere applications in Java with Rational Application Developer (RAD).

Skills Gained

At the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Understand the benefits and technologies of the Java EE (J2EE)
2. Understand the architecture behind the JavaEE
3. Create Enterprise applications using the JavaEE reference edition
4. Develop servlets, implementing session management and error handling
5. Use JSPs to develop template based client interfaces
6. Leverage RMI to provide pure Java distributed applications
7. Build reusable components with Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)
8. Access naming services using Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) to talk to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers
9. Connect to databases with JDBC
10. Query databases with SQL
11. Encapsulate databases using a datasource
12. Co-ordinate the completion of transactions
13. Implement security measures

Prerequisites

Programming experience in any high level language.

Course Outline

Enterprise Java Overview

• JavaEE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) reference implementation
• JavaEE overview
• Reference implementation overview and licensing
• Services
• Supported databases
• Limitations of reference implementation
• Configuration

Rational Application Developer

• Developing code in Rational Application Developer
• Running web applications in Rational Application Developer
• Using Enterprise JavaBeans in Rational Application Developer

Servlets

• What is a Servlet?
• Lifecycle methods
• The service() method
• Creating servlets
• HTTP servlets
• Responding to requests
• Logging
• Servlets and threads
• Storing session data
• URL rewriting
• Cookies
• Redirection
• Errors and unavailability
• Testing and deploying in RAD

Java Server Pages (JSP)

• What is a JSP?
• How JSPs work
• Directives
• Actions
• Scriptlets
• Standard actions
• Standard directives
• Conditional and looping execution
• JSPs and JavaBeans
• Standard variables in JSPs
• Defining variables and methods
• Including other documents
• Redirection

RMI Overview

• Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
• Remote interfaces
• Building a remote object

EJB Overview

• What are EJBs?
• Session beans
• Entity beans
• Message beans
• EJB architecture
• Example EJB
• Naming
• Containers and servers
• Using the WSAD JNDI Test client
• Using the WSAD EJB Test client

Container Managed Persistence (CMP)

• EJBs with Container-Managed Persistence
• Entity beans
• Principles of CMP
• Creating a CMP bean (remote interface, home interface, bean class)
• Mapping fields
• Simple mappings
• Type mapping
• Complex mappings
• Generating extension mappings for RAD

EJB Deployment

• Deployment descriptors
• Why deploy?
• Deployable beans vs deployed beans
• EJB JAR files
• J2EE Deployment Tool
• Configuring an EJB
• Adding a web component
• Adding a client application
• Verification and deployment
• Exporting to WebSphere Application Server

Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)

• What is JNDI?
• Why use a naming service?
• DNS (Domain Name Service)
• LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
• Contexts
• Looking up values
• Naming in the Enterprise
• EJB Clients
• What is an EJB Client?
• Finding an EJB
• Using an EJB

Session beans

• What is a session bean?
• Stateful vs stateless session beans
• Implementing a session bean

Standard EJB Methods

• Standard methods in EJBs
• Creation and removal
• Load and store
• Instance pooling
• Passivation and activation
• Contexts
• Handles

SQL Overview

• The purpose of SQL
• Components of SQL
• Selects
• Joins
• Inserts

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

• What is JDBC?
• JDBC classes and interfaces
• JDBC drivers
• Database naming
• Connecting to a database
• Processing ResultSets
• JDBC and Java types
• Connection pooling

EJBs with Bean Managed Persistence

• Principles of BMP
• Building a BMP bean
• Using databases within BMP beans
• Configuring BMP beans
• Using naming

Transactions Overview

• What are transactions?
• Transaction properties
• Java transactions
• One-phase and two-phase commit

EJB Transactions

• EJB transactions
• Different models for transaction management
• Transaction attributes
• Transaction isolation
• User transactions
• Sessions and transactions
• Clients and transactions
• Mixing transactions

EJB Security

• Authentication and authorisation
• Realms
• Users, groups and roles
• Delegation

Java Messaging Service (JMS)

• Messaging architecture
• Publish/Subscribe and Point to Point (P2P)
• Queues and Topics in JMS
• Message types
• Creating and using topics
• Creating and using queues
• Comparison of topics and queues
• Temporary topics
• Message transactions
• Formatting data with XML
• Integration with legacy systems

JavaMail

• Mail overview
• SMTP, POP and IMAP
• Stores and Folders
• Creating and sending mail
• Creating mixed messages
• Activation framework overview

Follow On Courses

• JavaFX Script Training Course
• JavaFX Mobile Training Course
• JavaSE (J2SE) Training Course
• Advanced Java SE Training - Advanced Programming Techniques & Design Patterns Workshop
• JavaEE (J2EE) Training Course
• JavaME (J2ME) Training Course
• JavaME (J2ME) Upgrade for Java Programmers
• JavaEE (J2EE) Design Patterns & Architecture
• JavaEE (J2EE) Architecture - 1 day overview
• Enterprise Workshop with Struts Training Course
• Web Enterprise Development Workshop with Spring Framework Training
• JBoss J2EE Application Server Administration Training
• Hibernate training course
• SOA & ESB - Service Oriented Architecture & Enterprise Service Bus Training
• IBM Visual Age for Java Training Course
• WebSphere Application Server Training Course
• WebLogic / J2EE Training Course
• WebLogic Upgrade Training Course