WebSphere Training : J2EE Programming Using Rational Application Developer (RAD) v6

This 5 day training course teaches students how to develop Servlet, JSP and EJB for the WebSphere Application Server v6 platform. About 50% of the time is spent on hands on labs that use the Rational Developer Studio (RAD) v6 development tool.

WebSphere Training Audience

This course is designed for Java programmers and web application designers who have interest in learning how to build or maintain enterprise applications based on the J2EE architecture using IBM's WebSphere tools.

WebSphere Training Prerequisites

Intermediate level Java programming knowledge.

WebSphere Training Learning Objectives

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

Develop web based applications using Servlet and JSP
Develop business logic layer using EJB
Be productive developers in the Rational Application Developer (RAD) environment
Deploy application code inside WebSphere Application Server v6

WebSphere Training Topics

The core J2EE 1.4 specifications - Servlet, JSP and EJB
Developing a business logic layer using EJB
Developing a presentation layer using Servlet and JSP
Mastering the Rational Application Developer (RAD) tool

WebSphere Training Course duration

5 days

WebSphere Training Course outline

1. Introduction to Rational Application Developer

Eclipse and its plugin architecture
Workspace, Workbench, perspective and view
Developing Java applications
Compiling Java applications
Refactoring Java code
Searching

2. Introduction to J2EE and WebSphere v6

Core J2EE concepts
WebSphere Application Server product family
Key capabilities of WebSphere Application Server v6

3. Rational Application Developer (RAD)

J2EE development features
Creating an Enterprise, Web and EJB project.
Setting up a test server (WebSphere Test Environment)

4. Sevlet Basics

Servlet overview
HTTP Servlet API
Servlet life cycle
Example
Developing servlets in RAD

5. JSP Basics

JSP overview
JSP directives
JSP expressions
JSP scriptlets
JSP declarations
Examples
Developing and testing JSP

6. Servlet Interaction Interface

The request object
The response object
Cookie
HTTP Session management

7. Advanced Servlet Programming

The Model View Controller (MVC) architecture
JDBC programming
DataSource and connection pool
Invoking a JSP from a Servlet
Passing data from a Servlet to JSP

8. JSP EL and JSTL

JSP Expression Language
JSTL tags - basic tags, condition tags, iteration tags, internationalization tags.

9. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Overview

EJB fundamentals
Overview of EJB container and EJB server responsibilities
Overview of entity EJBs and session EJBs
EJB deployment descriptor

10. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Session Bean

Session bean contexts and lifecycle
Writing stateless session beans
Writing stateful beans
Examples
Creating session beans

11. Enterprise JavaBeans Programming - Entity Bean

Entity bean contexts and lifecycle
Writing container-managed entity beans
Writing bean-managed entity beans
EJB QL to develop finder methods
Container managed relationship (CMR)
Examples
Creating entity beans
Mapping CMP attributes to database tables

12. Best Practices

Stateful Session Beans
Transaction Isolation Levels
Which EJB objects to cache
CMP EJB Pooling
Access Beans
Using HTTP Session
Connection Pooling
Java Best Practices
WebSphere Best Practices

13. Deploying Enterprise Application Projects to WebSphere v6

Exporting the Enterprise Application
Deployment Descriptors
Application Assemble Entries
Installing an Application into WAS v6
Managing WAS applications

14. J2EE Design Patterns

EJB Layer Architectural Patterns
Inter-tier Data Transfer Patterns
Transaction and Persistence Patterns
Client-side EJB Interaction Patterns
Primary Key Generation Strategies

15. Using RAD in a Large Project

RAD performance tuning
Breaking up large projects
Remote debugging

Appendix A - Message-Driven Beans

Appendix B - Custom JSP Tag Libraries

Appendix C - Java Messaging Service

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