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Course JAV105
JavaEE Application Develoment on JBoss

Duration: 5 Days

Course Synopsis

This course focuses on the development of enterprise Java applications using the JBoss application server platform.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course student should know and understand

• Java EE specifications, APIs, semantics, and development procedures
• The principles of JBoss AS deployment, architecture, administration, tuning, security, high-availability and scalability,

The course is aimed at

• Java application developers and programmers

Prerequisites

• Students are expected to have a good knowledge of Java programming gained by 2 to 3 years of practical programming experience.

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Course Outline

Overview of JBoss

• Overview of JBoss Organization
• Overview of JBoss Application Server
• JBoss AS Architecture
• JBoss AS Requirements

JBoss Installation and Directory Structure

• Obtaining installing, and configuring Java ,JBoss and Eclipse
• Building JBoss from source
• Installing JBoss
• JBoss directory Structure - files, scripts and utilities
• Understanding JBoss AS configuration ("server") sets
• Installing and configuring the JBoss IDE plug-ins for Eclipse
• JBoss AS logging

Starting/Stopping JBoss

• Using the run script
• Verifying server startup
• Stopping (shutting down), including remote stopping
• Remote starting (netboot)

JBoss Application Deployment

• JavaEE development-deployment life-cycle
• JavaEE deployment descriptors
• Deployment on JBoss AS
• Deployers on JBoss AS, Deployers and Deployment Dependencies
• Hot vs. Cold Deployment

Web Tier Technologies

• Overview of web technologies (CGI, Cold Fusion, PHP, APS, Servet/JSP)
• CGI vs. Servlets/JSPs
• Advantages of Servlets
• JavaEE Web Applications
• Java Servlets
  • Life-cycle
  • API
  • Processing requests and generating responses
  • Defining and mapping in WEB-INF/web.xml
  • Web Application structure
  • Developing and deploying web applications
  • XDoclet automation
  • Scoped storage: request, session, application
  • Initializing applications
  • Welcome files, Error documents and Servlet Filters
• JavaServer Pages
  • Life-cycle
  • JSP API
  • Packaging
  • Implicit objects
  • Directives, scriptlets, expressions, declarations, comments
  • Actions
  • Introduction to JSP tag libraries
  • Using JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
  • Expression Language (EL)
• Tomcat Web Container
  • Tomcat architecture and its place in JBoss
  • Configuration (jboss-service.xml and server.xml)
  • Tomcat's web.xml
  • Serving static content
  • Virtual hosting
  • Logging web access

JNDI

• Overview of JNDI
• Role of JNDI in JavaEE
• JNDI API
• Using JNDI
• JNDI resources
• JNDI on JBoss AS

JavaMail

• Overview of JavaMail
• JavaMail API
• JavaMail service on JBoss AS
• Sending (SMTP) and fetching (IMAP/POP) mail

JMX

• Java Management Extensions Architecture - An overview
• JMX MBeans
• JMX Console
• Developing MBeans using the JBoss IDE and XDoclet
• Packaging service archive (SAR) files
• Web Console and JBoss Monitoring

Class Loading

• Class Loading on JBoss
• Default and scoped Class Search Order
• Log4j and troubleshooting Class Loading problems

Database Integration

• Managed Database Connection Pools
• Referencing database connection pool resources
• Installing JDBC drivers
• Defining database resources in JBoss AS
• Resource Mapping

JMS

• Java Messaging Service - Architecture Overview
• JMS Messaging Domains (Point-to-Point, Publish and Subscribe)
• JMS Message Consumption
• JMS API
• Developing with JMS
• JMS on JBoss AS

EJB

• Enterprise JavaBean technology - Essential Concepts
• EJB Container
• Types of EJBs (session, entity, message-driven)
• Entity bean (JPA: persistence, transactions, primary keys, relationships)
• EJB client interfaces (remote, local, web service)
• EJB life-cycle (entity, stateful session, stateless session, message-driven)
• Developing EJB clients (local, remote)
• Packaging with enterprise Archive (EAR) files
• Testing
• Developing message-driven beans via the JBoss IDE
• Drawbacks of EJBs

Transactions

• Overview of Transactions (ACID properties)
• Resource Locking (pessimistic vs. optimistic)
• Distributed Transaction Components (JTA API)
• Two-phase XA protocol
• Heuristic Exceptions
• Transactions on JBoss AS
• Container-Managed Transactions (CMT)
• User Transactions

Web Services

• Overview of Web Services
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Overview of JAX-RPC
• Web Services on JBoss AS
• Creating web service client

Security

• Filtering Clients by Source (IP address or hostname)
• Authentication and Authorization using JAAS
• Role-based declarative security
• Requiring authentication and authorization in deployment descriptors
• JBoss plain-text and database login modules
• FORM-based login
• Configuring JBoss AS for SSL
• Generating SSL certificates
• Requiring SSL in web applications
• Securing JBoss AS
  • Running with reduced privileges
  • File-system security
  • Running with Java Security Manager
  • Running behind a firewall

Performance Tuning

• JVM tuning
• RMI tuning
• Tomcat tuning
• Tuning JBoss services / Removing unnecessary services

Clustering

• Survey of web system architectures and issues of fault-tolerance / high-availability / scalability
• Fronting JBoss with Apache (using mod_jk)
• Enabling simple load-balancing
• Using sticky sessions
• Configuring clustered session replication
• Clustering of JBoss services (HA-JNDI, HA-JMS, etc.)
• Deplying cluster farms