Enterprise Application Development

• Establishing the components of an enterprise architecture
• Streamlining the development process with Java EE

Leveraging JavaServer Faces (JSF)

JSF architecture

• Identifying the JSF core components
• Exploring the request processing cycle
• Managing application flow using the JSF navigation model

Constructing a JSF application

• Creating views with JSF custom tags
• Handling user events with backing beans

Enhancing functionality using JSF services

• Applying server-side data validation
• Taking advantage of the Unified Expression Language

Generating Rich User Interfaces (UI) with JSF Component Technology

Building views with facelets

• Defining the functionality of the HTML component set
• Arranging the UI component layout
• Localising messages using Resource Bundles

Modularising UI development

• Simplifying page structure with Facelets
• Achieving code reuse with templates
• Exploring the composite component architecture

Leveraging Ajax to improve the user experience

• Sharpening response with the asynchronous Web model
• Combining Ajax functionality with JSF
• Utilising prebuilt Ajax-enabled JSF components

Implementing the Business Tier with EJB

Stateless and stateful beans

• Encapsulating scalable business logic with JavaBeans
• Accessing session beans remotely
• Constructing effective stateful services

Applying advanced strategies of session beans

• Adding behaviours with method interceptors
• Linking services with annotation-based resource injection
• Triggering timer-based and asynchronous services

Unleashing Message Driven Beans (MDB)

• Simplifying robust message receivers with MDB
• Generalising message reception with Java connectors

Opening Access with Web Services

Achieving interoperability with JAX-WS

• Coding and packaging a service endpoint
• Packaging and deploying the service

Accessing services with JAX-WS clients

• Analysing the client contract
• Binding and exchanging valid data types

Mapping with Java Persistence API (JPA)

Demystifying the JPA architecture

• Identifying the major components of JPA
• Establishing access with the EntityManager

Applying JPA core operations

• Developing the persistence class
• Storing Java objects
• Holding conversational state across requests

Handling Complex Object Relationships

Effectively representing object associations

• Capturing single and multivalued associations
• Representing Java collections

Choosing appropriate inheritance strategies

• Employing techniques for class-to-database mapping
• Auditing operations with Callbacks and Listeners

Working with JPQL

• Initiating data access with the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) and API
• Selecting Entity and relationship properties

Querying with the Criteria API

• Creating a criteria query and managing results
• Enhancing queries with CriteriaBuilder

Enhancing application structure and performance

• Improving structure with named queries
• Augmenting JPQL with native optimised SQL

Preserving Integrity with Enterprise Services

• Approaches to working with Java Transaction API (JTA)
• Managing transaction strategies with annotations
• Securing each tier in a multitier architecture
• Configuring roles and access control