J2EE Development using WebSphere Studio v5.0

Self-Study Packet Contents:

  • Student Courseware (475 pages)

  • A complete student guide with Table of contents, Course objectives, four different sections and an index.
  • Student Exercise Guide (228 pages)
    An extensive student exercise guide that contains 5 different hands-on step-by-step lab problems.
  • Interactive DVD
    Utilizes a browser-based interface to integrate the animated lecture components with the instructor-narrated lab solutions.
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Audience
Java developers, web page designers and other professionals that will be designing, developing and implementing large scale applications using JSPs, servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans and implementing them using IBM’s WebSphere Application Server v5.1
   

Duration

25 hours
   
Course Abstract
This course will integrate a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to demonstrate the development and testing of server-side applications using J2EE v1.4 component model. This course will focus on illustrating the use of the WSAD v5.1 product for developing servlets, JSPs, JavaBeans and EJBs. This seminar will focus on: WSAD wizards, migration to v5.1, servlet and JSP component development, session, message and entity EJB development, J2CA and their adapters, Web Services framework, JMS and MQSeries, packaging and deployment issues, J2EE Design patterns and Struts development.
   
Price $349 per copy
Objectives

Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

  • Understand the role of the WSAD v5.0 IDE tool
  • Explain the role of WSAD projects and perspectives
  • Demonstrate the usage of WSAD wizards for rapidly developing components, projects and servers
  • Illustrate the J2EE 1.4 component model and role in designing server-side applications
  • Develop, debug and test servlet and JSP components
  • Understand role of JDBC to establish connectivity to relational structures
  • Illustrate the role of Struts and develop Struts oriented applications
  • Understand the role of Web Services, UDDI Registries and the Service Oriented Architecture
  • Depict the role of JMS and MQSeries
  • Illustrate the J2EE packaging and deployment strategies
  • Demonstrate the usage of JCA and the role of resource adapters
  • Illustrate WSAD v5.0 projects and packaging
  • Deploy applications to the embedded WebSphere Application Server
   
Class Format Lecture and Lab
   
Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of the WWW and have been exposed to the Java programming language.

Course Topics

The following list represents the sections and topics discussed in this virtual instructor-led course offering.

 

WebSphere Overview

  • Multitiered overview
  • N-tier architecture
  • Model-View-Controller
  • WebSphere products
  • Browser role
  • HTTP Server
  • Application Server
  • Standalone vs Network Deployment administration
  • WSAD Suite
  • J2EE platform
  • J2EE APIs
  • J2EE services: JNDI, JDBC, Security, RMI, JMS, etc
  • J2EE packaging
  • Application lifecycle
  • WebSphere architecture: Cells, Clusters, Nodes, Node Agents, Web Services Gateway
  • WSAD development environment

JavaServer Pages

  • JSP Components
  • JSP & Servlet integration
  • Servlet/JSP model
  • JSP request cycle
  • Operational model
  • JSP translations
  • Forwarding
  • JSP methods: jspInit, jspService and jspDestroy
  • JSP Tags and scripting elements
  • Implicit objects
  • Directives
  • Declarations
  • Expressions
  • Scriptlets
  • JSP Action tags
  • JavaBean integration
  • useBean Scope attribute
  • Development using WSAD

WSAD IDE

  • Understanding Eclipse
  • Multiple document interface
  • WebSphere Studio family
  • Plug-in architecture
  • Java development features
  • Web development
  • XML capabilities
  • Server configuration
  • Deployment Descriptors
  • Projects and Perspectives
  • WSAD folder structure
  • Import/Export projects
  • Utilizing Perspectives
  • Navigation panel

EJB Overview

  • EJB benefits
  • EJB portability foundation
  • EJB container services and responsibilities
  • Enterprise Bean types
  • Session vs Entity vs Message beans
  • Stateful vs Stateless Session
  • Managing state data
  • CMP vs BMP Entity beans
  • EJB Container role
  • Bean lifecycle management
  • Transactional processing
  • Security issues
  • Development within WSAD

WSAD Debugger

  • Debugger role
  • Debug perspective
  • Debugger preference settings
  • Initiating debugger
  • Suspended threads
  • Execution controls
  • Inspecting expressions
  • Breakpoints
  • Exception handling
  • WSAD Scrapbook

Web Services

  • Service-oriented architecture
  • Web service model
  • B2C vs B2B
  • Role of XML
  • SOAP and SOAP messages
  • WSDL
  • UDDI registries
  • Web Services Gateway
  • JCA integration

Servlet Development

  • Servlet Evolution
  • Characteristics
  • Statement blocks
  • Stateless vs Stateful
  • Servlet message structure: HTTP header & FORM data
  • Web Container: Instance Pool, JVM and JRE roles
  • Lifecycle
  • HTML FORM interaction: ACTION and METHOD parameters
  • POST vs GET processing
  • Reading POST data
  • Java Servlet API
  • init and destroy methods
  • Development in WSAD
  • Servlet Operational model
  • Deployment and testing

JMS and MQSeries

  • JMS and JMS Providers
  • Asynchronous Messaging
  • Publish/Subscribe
  • Point-to-Point
  • Connection Factories
  • JMS Destinations
  • JMS Listeners
  • Listener Managers
  • ejb-jar.xml updates
  • WebSphereMQ
  • Queue Managers and Brokers
  • WebSphereMQ Clustering
  • Network Deployment implementation

Session Data

  • Session support
  • WebSphere Session management
  • Retrieve HttpSession
  • Invalidation
  • Accessing existing sessions
  • RequestDispatcher
  • Servlet Contexts
  • Session configuration
  • Persistent Session types
  • WebSphere internal messaging: Peer-to-Peer vs Client/Server
  • Session affinity
  • Cookies

Assembly & Deployment

  • Application packaging
  • IBM specific packaging
  • Application Assembly Tool
  • earconvert tool
  • EJB migration
  • ejbdeploy command
  • Servlet WAR creation
  • Packaging WAR files
  • Class loading policies
  • Enterprise application installation
  • Network deployment

 

JSP Tag Libraries

  • Custom Tag libraries
  • Tag Handler classes
  • Tag Library Descriptor file
  • taglib page directive
  • Defining TLD entries
  • Deploying Tag libraries
  • Using web.xml aliases
  • JSP Standard Tag Libraries
  • JSTL Expression language