WA1746 Developing JSF Web Applications with Spring and Hibernate Training and Courseware

This course covers how to program JSF Web Applications, how to use the Spring Framework, and to use the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework to implement the persistence layer of J2EE applications to develop flexible, testable and maintainable Java EE web applications. Besides covering each of these technologies individually, emphasis is placed on how to utilize them together.

• The JSF Architecture
• JSF Request Objects
• Simple JSF User Interface components
• The EL Expression Language and Advanced User Interface components
• JSF Event Handling
• JSF Data Validation
• The Need for Spring
• Inversion of Control
• Wiring Beans
• Object/Relational Mapping Concepts
• Basic Hibernate Mappings
• Manipulating Persistent Objects
• Advanced Hibernate Mappings
• Transactions and Concurrency

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Become familiar with the JSF tags for the commonly used HTML components in a form
• Learn how to write event handler methods in a managed bean
• Learn how to register the event handler method with a GUI component
• Write navigation rule in faces-config.xml
• Understand the need for the Spring framework
• Use inversion of control to increase flexibility and testability of applications
• Understand the concepts of object/relational mappings
• Create Hibernate mappings
• Integrate Spring with the Hibernate ORM framework
• Retrieve and update persistent objects using Hibernate
• Use HQL (Hibernate Query Language) and criteria queries
• Know when to use database and application transactions

Software designers, developers and programmers

• Understand Java - Course WA1278 addresses the Java prerequisite
• Understand Servlets and JSP - Course WA1259 addresses the Servlet and JSP prerequisite

Five days.