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

• Understand J2EE-based Web application architecture and development
• Understand Web application development in the BEA WebLogic Server environment
• Setup the WebLogic application development environment
• Develop WebLogic applications using WebGain VisualCafé and/or your favorite text editor
• Deploy WebLogic applications

• J2EE-based Web applications
• Web application server and BEA WebLogic Server 6.0
• Set up of the VisualCafé and WebLogic application development environment
• Servlet and JSP programming with VisualCafé
• EJB 2.0 programming (Session Beans, Entity Beans and Message-Driven Beans)
• WebLogic application debug and deployment

1. Overview of Web Applications
• J2EE based Web Application architecture
• Application server Functionality
• WebLogic Platform Introduction
2. WebLogic Application Development Environment
• Tools for Application development
• Tools for Application Testing and Deployment
• WebLogic Application Development Environment Setup
3. Servlet Programming
• Servlet Overview
• HTTP Servlet API
• Servlet Life Cycle
• Programming with MVC model
• JDBC and Database Connection Pooling
• Session tracking
• Examples
• Using VisualCafé Wizards
4. JSP Programming
• JSP Overview
• JSP Directive
• JSP Expressions
• JSP Scriptlets
• JSP Declarations
• Using JavaBeans with JSP
• Examples
• Using VisualCafé Wizards
• Integrating Servlet and JSP
5. Deploy Web Application (Servlets and JSP) inside WebLogic Application Server
• Architecture of WebLogic Server Administration
• Using WebLogic Administration Console to deploy Servlets and JSPs of Web Applications
6. JMS Programming
• JMS Overview
• Develop JMS clients
• WebLogic JMS Service
• Samples
7. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Overview
• EJB Fundamentals
• Overview of EJB Container and EJB Server Responsibilities
• Overview of Entity EJB and Session EJB
• Overview of EJB deployment
8. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Session Bean
• Session Bean Contexts and Lifecycle
• Writing Stateless Session Beans
• Writing Stateful Beans
• Examples
9. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Entity Bean
• Entity Bean Contexts and Lifecycle
• Writing Container-Managed Entity Beans
• Writing Bean-Managed Entity Beans
• Examples
10. Message-Driven Bean
• Message-Driven Bean Overview
• Creating a JMS Server and Queue
• MDB vs. Session/Entity Beans
• MDB implementation
• Samples
11. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Advanced
• Using Session Beans as the clients of entity beans
• Using Servlets as EJB clients
• Using Transaction
• Writing Bean-Managed Entity Beans
• Examples
12. Deploy EJBs into WebLogic Application Server
• Types of EJB Deployment
• Hot Deployment
• Auto Deployment
• The WebLogic EJB utility
• The EJB Deployment Descriptor