Developing Applications for the Java EE 7 Platform Ed 1

Introduction to Java EE

•     Standards, containers, APIs, and services
•     Interconnect Application Components with CDI Annotations and JNDI
•     Web container technologies, Business logic implementation technologies, and web service technologies
•     Application component functionalities mapped to tiers and containers
•     Packaging and deployment
•     Linking components together with annotations, injections, and JNDI
•     Understanding lifecycle and memory scopes
•     Enterprise JavaBeans, managed beans, and CDI beans

Managing Persistence by Using JPA Entities

•     Describe persistence management and locking mechanisms
•     Create and execute JPQL statements
•     Create JPA entities with Object-Relational Mappings (ORM)
•     Use Entity Manager to perform database operations with JPA entities
•     Handle entity data with conversions, validations, and key generation

Implementing Business Logic by Using EJBs

•     Use asynchronous EJB operations
•     Control transactions
•     Create EJB business methods
•     Create EJB timers
•     Create Session EJB components
•     Manage EJB life cycle with container callbacks
•     Create and apply interceptors

Using Java Message Service API

•     Use durable and shared topic consumer subscriptions
•     Describe Java Message Service (JMS) API messaging models
•     Use transactions with JMS
•     Create message-driven beans
•     Implement Java SE and Java EE message producers and consumers

Implementing SOAP Services by Using JAX-WS

•     Create SOAP Web Services using JAX-WS API
•     Create SOAP Web Service clients
•     Describe a SOAP Web Service structure

Creating Java Web Applications by Using Servlets

•     Create Java servlet classes and map then to URLs
•     Implement asynchronous servlets and use NIO API
•     Manage servlet life cycle with container callback methods
•     Use servlets to handle different content types
•     Use Interceptors and Filters
•     Handle HTTP headers, parameters, cookies
•     Describe HTTP basics
•     Use CDI Managed Beans

Creating Java Web Applications by Using JSPs

•     Describe JSP life cycle
•     Handle errors
•     Describe JSP syntax
•     Use Tag Libraries
•     Use Expression Language (EL)
•     Use CDI Beans

Implementing REST Services using JAX-RS API

•     Create REST services using JAX-RS API
•     Understand REST service conventions
•     Consume REST service within the client tier

Creating Java Applications with WebSockets

•     Manage WebSocket Endpoint lifecycle
•     Encode and Decode JSON messages
•     Understand WebSockets communication style
•     Produce and consume WebSocket messages
•     Handle Errors
•     Provide WebSocket Client Endpoint handler using JavaScript
•     Create WebSocket Endpoint Handlers using JSR 356 API

Develop Web Applications Using JavaServer Faces

•     Add AJAX support
•     Use UI templates
•     Describe JSF lifecycle and architecture, and understand JSF syntax
•     Use Expression Language (EL), and CDI Beans
•     Produce messages
•     Apply Validators and Converters to UIComponents
•     Use JSF Tag Libraries
•     Define navigation, and handle localisation

Securing Java EE Applications

•     Define Application Roles and Security Constraints
•     Configure Authentication using Login Modules
•     WebServices security standards
•     Use programmatic security
•     Understand Java EE security architecture

Appendixes/Additional Content

•     JAXB API
•     CDI Beans
•     Pre-CDI Servlet Examples
•     BeanValidation and JPA API
•     Batch and Concurrency APIs
•     Java Logging