Java ee 7 : back-end server application development

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

The Java EE Platform
The needs of enterprise application developers
Java EE specifications
A comparison of services and libraries
Java EE application tiers and architecture

Enterprise Development Tools and Applications

The purpose of an application server
Properties of Java EE components
The development process of Java EE applications
Configuring and deploying Java EE applications

Java Beans, Annotations and Logging

Java SE features in Java EE applications
Creating POJO JavaBeans components
Using logging
Using common Java annotations
Developing custom annotations
The role of annotations in Java EE applications

XML Programming with JAXB

The benefits of XML
XML namespaces and schemas
Java XML APIs
The Java XML Binding API (JAXB)
Reading and writing XML documents with JAXB
xjc: the JAXB binding compiler
JAXB annotations

SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS

Overview of SOAP
Overview of WSDL files
Comparing WSDL-first and code-first design approaches
Writing a JAX-WS web service
Generating WSDL from a Java class
Creating JAX-WS web service clients

Java Naming and Directory (JNDI) Services

What is JNDI?
Naming service concepts
Directory service concepts
JNDI packages
Using JNDI to look up JDBC and EJB components in Java EE

The EJB Component Model

The role EJB components play in Java EE appplications
The role of the EJB container
EJB changes in Java EE 7
Local, distributed and no-client EJB client access views
EJB Session types
Stateless, Stateful and Singleton EJBs
Session bean packaging and deploying

Contexts and Dependency Injection

What is dependency injection?
Using Qualifiers
The beans.xml file and Alternatives
Using Producers and Disposers
Using Interceptors
Using Events and Stereotypes

Java Message Service

What is the Java Message Service?
Why do we need JMS?
JMS Overview
Point-to-point messaging architecture
Publish/subscribe messaging architecture
Message producers and consumers
Queues and topics
Durable vs. non-durable subscriptions

Message-driven Beans

The life cycle of a message-driven bean
Creating a message-driven bean
Creating life cycle handlers for message-driven beans
Configuring a message-driven bean

Java EE Concurrency

Concurrency in Java EE
Asynchronous EJBs
Managed Executors

JDBC in Java EE Environments

Overview of the JDBC API
Using CDI to inject a JDBC resource in a Java EE component
The Data Access Object pattern

Transactions in Java EE Environments

What are transaction semantics?
Comparing programmatic and declarative transaction scoping
Using JTA to scope transactions programmatically
Implementing a container-managed transaction policy using declarations
Controlling container-managed transaction propagation

Java Persistence API

Object-relational mapping
Entities and the entity manager
Persistence contexts and persistence units
Create, read, update and delete operations with JPA
Create typed queries in JPA with JPQL

Bean Validation with JPA

What is Bean Validation?
JPA lifecycle phases where validation takes place
Using the built-in validation constraints
Creating a custom bean validation constraint
Programmatic validation by injecting a Validator
Using validation groups

Timer and Batch Services

What are timer services?
Programmatic and automatic timers
What is Batch processing?
Jobs, steps and chunks
Batch examples

Security

Authentication, authorization and confidentiality
Apply Java EE security using deployment descriptors
Creating users and groups and mapping them to roles
Defining possible web service attack vectors