J2EE

Web application development

• Introduction to web application development
• Purpose of web application development
• Various elements of web applications
• Setting up Tomcat web server and Eclipse WTP
• Developing dynamic web applications using Servlet’s
  • Overview of Servlet2.5 & 3 API’s
  • Handling a client’s request using Servlet
  • Configuring servlet’s using xml and annotations
  • Web Container
  • Servlet Life Cycle
  • Http Protocol
    • Http Request Format
    • Http Response Format
  • Coordinating servlets
  • Scope objects(Sharing data)

Servlet Filters

• Filter basics
• Creating a filter
• Understanding the applications of filters

Servlet Listeners

• Listener’s basics
• Creating a listener & registering
• Understanding the applications of listeners

Session Tracking JSP (JavaServerPages)  

• JSP Elements
  • Directives
  • Declarations
  • Scriptlets
  • Expressions
  • JSP Actions
  • Comments
• Implicit objects
• Expression Language (EL)
• JSTL(JSP Standard Tag Libraray)
  • Core Tags
  • Formatting tags
  • SQL tags
  • XML tags
  • JSTL Function
• Creating Custom JSP Tag Libraries: The Basic
  • Java-based tags
  • Components of a tag library
  • Basic tags
  • Tags that use body content
  • Tags that optionally use body content
• JSP-based tags (tag files)
  • Components of a tag library
  • Basic tags
  • Tags that use attributes
  • Tags that use body content

Ajax: Asynchronous Page Updates

• The basic Ajax process
• Using dynamic content and JSP
• Using dynamic content and servlets
• Sending GET data
• Sending POST data
• Displaying HTML results
• Parsing and displaying XML results

JQuery

• Introduction to JQuery
• Working with selectors, events
• Manipulating content dynamically
• JQuery UI and forms
• jQuery and Ajax

Model1 and Model2(MVC) Architectures. JNDI(Java Naming and Directory Interface) API

• Understanding JDNI Tree in Application servers
• Creating context
• Registering bound objects
• Look up bound objects

Enterprise Messaging using JMS(Java Messaging Service) API

• Messaging is a method of communication between software components or applications.
• Messaging enables distributed communication that is loosely coupled.
• Introduction to JMS
  • What is JMS?
  • JMS Features
  • JMS Architecture
• JMS Fundamentals
  • Messaging Models
    • Point-to-Point Messaging
    • Publish/Subscribe Messaging
  • Connection Factory
  • Session
  • Destination Types
    • Queue
    • Topic
  • Message Consumer
  • Message Producer
• Configuring JMS
  • JMS Server
  • Destination’s
• Types of Messages
• Sending and Receiving Message

XML Processing API’s

• XML syntax and namespaces
• Describing XML with schema
• XPath
• XSLT
• Java APIs for XML Parsing and Transformation
• JAXP, SAX, and DOM

Java API for XML Binding(JAXB)

• The need for Data Binding
• Mapping schema types for Java
• Java-to-xml mapping using annotation’s
• Marshalling and Unmarshalling with JAXB
• Working with JAXB Object models

Java Persistence API (JPA)

• Entity class and O/R mappings
• Persistent fields and properties
• Entity relationship mappings
  • One-One
  • One-Many
  • Many-One
  • Many-Many
• Inheritance mappings
• Annotations and XML descriptors for defining mappings
• Entity Operations
  • The EntityManager interface
  • Entity instance life cycle
  • Entity listeners and call-back methods
• Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

Understanding Other Data binding Frameworks in Java

• Castor XML
• XMLBeans