J2EE eCommerce Overview: Understanding J2EE Architecture

J2EE eCommerce Overview: Understanding J2EE Architecture

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J2EE eCommerce Overview:
Understanding J2EE Architecture
Online Seminar Series

Description:
This technical briefing will utilize a series of web-enabled animated lectures to introduce the participants to the J2EE architecture and the basic infrastructure of the eCommerce environment. This course is part of a series that strive to provide the basic foundational information on the emerging technologies of today. This briefing will strive to introduce the following topics; role of different infrastructure components (like browsers, web servers, application servers and firewalls), discuss the role of J2EE containers (Web and EJB), illustrate the usage of various Java components (servlets, JavaServer Pages and enterprise JavaBeans), J2EE security, J2EE services (JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JTA, etc) and provide a high level illustration of the interaction between all of these different pieces.

Software requirements:

Windows NT or Windows 2000 or Windows XP
Netscape Communicator v7.0 or later, or Microsoft Explorer v6.0 or later

Objectives:
Upon successfully completing this exercise guide, a student should be able to:

Understand the basic components of an eCommerce environment
Illustrate the roles of the following components: browsers, Web Servers and Application Servers
Depict the concepts of Java components and containers
Explain the different types of Java components and how they function: servlets, JavaServer Pages, EJBs, Java applications and applets
Understand the different types of J2EE containers: Web, EJB and Client
Illustrate the differences between stateless and stateful processing
Define the interaction between servlets and JSPS
Demonstrate the different types of deployment packaging of Java applications in a J2EE environment
Understand the significance and roles of various J2EE APIs: JMS, JTA, JDBC, JNDI and others
Explain the role of J2EE security for web-enabled applications
Understand the usage of Enterprise JavaBeans
Depict the differences between Entity, Session and Message EJBs

Prerequisites:
None