Outline of Architecting and Designing Java EE 6 Applications Training

Chapter 1 - Fundamental Architectural Concepts

• What is Architecture?
• Architecture vs. Design
• Qualities of Service (QoS)
• Common Mechanisms
• Architectural Description
• What Architecture is Not
• The Need for Architecture
• The Architect
• Roles of the Architect
• Skills of the Architect

Chapter 2 - System Architecture Development Guidelines

• Security Risks
• Performance & Scalability Risks
• Availability & Complexity Risks
• Compatibility & Control Risks
• Network Considerations
• Latency and Bandwidth
• Minimize Number of Network Calls
• Minimize Network Call Size
• Firewall Navigation
• Secure Communication
• Distributed Object Technologies
• What is a Transaction?
• Bank Example
• Multiple Users Sharing Data
• ACID Properties of Transactions
• Architecture
• Reference Architecture
• Patterns
• Development Methodologies
• Open Standards
• Frameworks
• Summary

Chapter 3 - Quality of Service Requirements

• What are Quality of Service Requirements?
• Qualities of Service and Design
• Quality of Service Inventory
• Performance
• Scalability
• Reliability
• Availability
• Extensibility
• Maintainability
• Manageability
• Security
• Cultural Adaptability
• Portability
• Testability
• Usability
• Upgradeability
• Recoverability
• Prioritizing Quality of Service Requirements
• Inspecting QoS Requirements for Trade-off Opportunities
• Quality of Service Reviews
• Summary

Chapter 4 - Software Architecture Tiers

• System Architecture
• Good Architecture
• Cave Drawings to Modern Day
• Information Systems Evolution
• Continued Evolution
• Present Day
• Client-Server Computing
• Client-Server Pros/Cons
• Client-Server Example
• Tiered Architectures
• Three-tier Architecture
• Three-tier Pros/Cons
• Three-tier Example
• N-Tier Architecture
• N-Tier Pros/Cons
• N-Tier Example
• Summary

Chapter 5 - Client Tier Technologies

• HTML5
• HTML5 Main Objectives
• Which Features of HTML 4 Changed
• New Features of HTML 5
• New Features of HTML 5
• Browser-side Data Storage
• Declaring HTML5
• Detecting Support for HTML5
• HTML5 Input Validation Example
• HTML5 Date Form Widget
• The Document Object Model
• The Document Object Model
• What the DOM is Not
• Cascading Style Sheets
• CSS Levels
• What is JavaScript?
• Working with JavaScript
• Working with JavaScript
• What is jQuery?
• Benefits of Using a JavaScript Library
• jQuery Example
• jQuery Mobile
• Apache Cordova (Adobe PhoneGap)
• Apache Cordova History
• Bootstrap
• Responsive Web Design
• Why Responsive Web Design Matters
• Responsive Web Design Components
• Mobile First
• Backbone.js
• Backbone Modules
• MVC and Backbone
• AngularJS
• Summary

Chapter 6 - Managing Client Tier Considerations

• Understand Client-tier Concerns
• Types of Clients
• JEE Client Responsibilities
• Presenting the User Interface
• Validating User Inputs
• Communicating with the Server
• Managing Conversational State
• Understand Client-Tier Security
• Client-Tier Security
• Compare/Contrast User Interface Devices
• Application of Reuse to the Client Tier
• Strategies for Deploying Java Desktop Applications
• Applet Usage
• Summary

Chapter 7 - JEE Technology Servers

• Server Types in JEE
• JEE Servers
• Java EE 6 Profiles
• Popular Java EE Application Servers
• Java EE Blueprint
• JEE Containers
• Enterprise Information Systems
• ERP Systems
• Mainframe Transaction Processing Systems
• Relational and Legacy Databases
• Legacy Integration
• Selecting a JEE Server
• Packaging and Deployment Definitions
• Roles and Responsibilities
• EJB Modules
• EJB Module Packaging
• Web Modules
• Web Module Recommendations
• Deployment Descriptors
• Summary

Chapter 8 - JEE Technologies

• Major Programming Technologies of Java EE
• Servlets
• Servlets Do the Following
• The Web Container
• JSP (Java Server Pages)
• JSP Elements
• JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
• Servlet Filters
• Uses for Filters
• JavaServer Faces (JSF)
• JSF 2.0
• Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (CDI)
• CDI Example
• Bean Validation
• Java Message Service (JMS)
• What are EJBs?
• Main Characteristics of EJBs
• EJB Container
• Enterprise Java Beans
• EJBs are Simple!
• Session Beans
• Remote vs. Local Session EJBs
• Asynchronous EJB
• Singleton EJB
• Message-Driven Beans
• Data Persistence
• Java Persistence API
• Entities
• Session EJB vs JPA Entities
• Java Web Service Implementation Choices
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
• Java SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS
• Java REST Web Services with JAX-RS
• JCA (JEE Connector Architecture)
• Summary

Chapter 9 - JEE Technology Choices

• Client Session State
• Client Managed State
• Web Tier Managed State
• EJB Tier Managed State
• Business Objects
• When to Use EJB
• Persistence Data Options
• Client Types
• Web Browser Clients
• Java Clients
• Model View Controller
• Model View Controller in the Web-Tier
• Web Application Frameworks
• Web Presentation Layout
• Java Presentation Layout
• Message-Oriented Middleware and JMS
• Messaging Domains
• Characteristics of MOM
• Advantages of Asynchronous Communication (e.g. MOM)
• Implementing Asynchronous EJBs
• Advantages of Synchronous Communication (e.g. RMI/IIOP)
• Remote Access to Business Logic
• Summary

Chapter 10 - SOA Concepts

• Anatomy of an Enterprise
• IT Nightmare
• Understanding by Analogy
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Componentization and Reuse
• Benefits of Service Orientation
• Defining SOA
• Aligning the Enterprise
• What’s a Service?
• Service Actors
• Service Layering
• Is SOA a Flash in the Pan?
• Service Orienting the Enterprise
• Service Oriented Thinking
• Summary

Chapter 11 - Introduction to JAX-WS

• What is JAX-WS?
• Advantages of JAX-WS
• Why Do We Need a Programming Model?
• Basic Java to WSDL Mapping
• Developing a Service Provider
• The Service Implementation Class
• The Service Endpoint Interface (SEI)
• Service Implementation Options
• Developing a Consumer
• Static Client Development
• The Service Class
• The BindingProvider Interface
• Summary

Chapter 12 - REST and JAX-RS Overview

• Many Flavors of Services
• Where SOAP Shines
• Where REST Shines
• REST vs SOAP Summary
• Understanding REST
• Principles of RESTful Services
• Example: Catalog Service
• Create a New Product
• Retrieve a Product
• Update a Product
• Delete a Product
• Introduction to JAX-RS
• The Resource Class
• The Entity Class
• Retrieve a Product
• Create a Product
• Update and Delete
• Content Negotiation
• Retrieving a JSON Representation
• Sending a JSON Representation
• REST Service Clients
• AJAX and XML
• AJAX and JSON
• Java REST Clients
• Summary

Chapter 13 - JEE Security

• JEE Authentication Mechanisms
• Basic Authentication
• Form-based Authentication
• Client Certificate Authentication
• JEE Authorization
• Sample Role Mapping
• Declarative Security on Web Resources
• Programmatic Security on Web Resources
• Security Role Reference
• Defining Security Roles Using Annotations
• Delegation
• Declarative Security on EJB Resources
• Protecting Beans Using Annotations
• Protecting Beans Using the Deployment Descriptor
• Programmatic Security on EJB Application
• Delegation
• Summary

Chapter 14 - Web Services Security (WS-Security)

• The Challenges
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Digital Signature
• Certificates
• Overview of Web Services Security
• SOAP Message Security
• Message Integrity
• Message Confidentiality
• Symmetric Encryption Example
• Authentication Using Identity Token
• Authentication
• Transport Level Security
• Audit Tracking
• Identity Assertion Using SAML
• SAML SOAP Example

Chapter 15 - Prototypes

• What is a Prototype?
• Conceptual Prototypes
• Architectural Prototypes
• Advantages of Prototyping
• Deciding Whether to Build a Prototype or Not
• Prototypes and the Software Development Lifecycle
• Prototype Roles and Responsibilities
• Throw-away vs. Evolutionary Prototypes
• Spikes
• Testing a Prototype
• Summary

Chapter 16 - Describing and Evaluating Software Architecture

• Architecture Description
• Architectural Views
• Subsystems
• Layers
• Example: Subsystems with Layers
• Components
• Decomposing the System Into Components
• Software Partitioning Strategies
• Managing Dependencies
• Component Diagrams
• Deployment Diagrams
• Tiered Architectures
• Managing Complexity
• Evaluating the Architecture
• Summary

Appendix A - Data Transfer in Distributed Computing

• Data Transfer in Java Local Computing
• Data Transfer in Java Distributed Computing
• Comparing Data Transfer in Local and Distributed Computing
• Summary

Appendix B - Transactions in EJB

• Need for Transactions
• Transactions
• ACID Properties
• Transaction Components
• Distributed Transactions
• Distributed Transaction Components - Two Phase Commit
• Java Transaction API (JTA)
• EJB Transaction Basics
• Transaction Propagation
• Transaction Outcome
• Container-Managed Transaction
• Transaction Attributes
• Container-Managed Transaction Settings
• Interacting with Container-Managed Transactions
• Container-Managed Transaction – Example
• Application Exceptions in Container-Managed Transactions
• Transaction Attributes Support
• Bean-Managed Transaction Management Type
• Summary

Appendix C - Business Tier Patterns - 1

• Facade Pattern
• Business Object Pattern
• Application Service Pattern
• Service Locator Pattern
• Remote Service Locator Example
• Dependency Injection in Servlets
• Business Delegate Pattern
• Summary

Appendix D - Business Tier Patterns - 2

• Data Transfer Object (DTO) Pattern
• JPA Entity as DTO
• JPA Lazy Loading
• Message Facade
• Fast Lane Pattern
• Pagination (Value List Handler) Pattern
• Version Number Pattern
• Read for Update Pattern
• Primary Key Generation
• Data Access Object (DAO)
• Summary