• Introduction to Java Platform
• Java Community Process (JCP)
• Introduction to Java EE
• Why Move to Java EE
• Java EE - New and Enhanced Features
• Java EE Software Packaging
• Java EE Technologies

Java EE Tools in Eclipse WTP

• Eclipse Platform
• Eclipse Workspace
• Perspectives, Views & Editors
• Basic Operations with Eclipse Views and Perspectives
• The Java Perspective
• The Debug Perspective
• Navigator View
• Package Explorer
• Outline View
• Problems View
• Eclipse Preferences
• Build and Validation
• Code Completion, Templates and Snippets
• Searching
• Configure Compiler Class Path
• JRE Switching
• Eclipse WTP
• Java EE Perspectives
• Project Explorer View
• Servers View
• JPA Tools

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) Overview

• Need for EJBs
• Distributed Computing
• Distributed Transaction
• Distributed Security
• What are EJBs?
• Main Characteristics of EJBs
• EJB Remote Method Call
• EJB Architecture Components
• EJB Client
• EJB JAR File
• EJB Container
• EJB Server
• Enterprise JavaBeans
• Session Beans
• Entity Beans
• Java Persistence API - Entities
• Message-Driven Beans (MDBs)
• EJB Specification

Stateless Session Beans

• Session Beans
• Stateless Session Bean
• Stateless Session Bean Pooling
• Stateful Session Bean
• Annotations
• Stateless Session Bean Components
• JNDI - Overview
• Business Interface Details
• Bean Class Details
• Session Bean Lifecycle
• Stateless Session Bean Lifecycle

Stateful Session Beans

• Stateful Session Bean
• Stateful Session Beans
• Session Bean Lifecycle
• Stateful Session Bean Lifecycle
• Stateful Session Bean Components
• Stateful Session Bean Client
• Removing the Bean

Entities and Java Persistence API

• Data Persistence
• Java Persistence API
• Session Beans Vs Entities
• Entities
• Persisting and Retrieving Data
• Accessing Entities
• EntityManager & Persistence Unit
• Persistence Context
• persistence.xml Hibernate Provider
• persistence.xml Open JPA Provider
• persistence.xml - Toplink
• Entity Instance Lifecycle
• Creating EntityManager in Session EJB
• Creating EntityManager in a Plain Java Class
• Working With the EntityManager Interface
• Transaction Basics

JPA Entity Lifecycle

• Entity Lifecycle
• When is an Entity Managed or Detached?
• Implementing the CRUD Pattern
• Accessing Entities Using Stateless Session Beans
• Inserting Data
• Retrieving Data
• Updating Data
• Deleting Data
• Merging Entities
• Life-Cycle Callbacks
• External Callback Class
• Synchronizing with Databases
• Entity Lookup
• JPAQL (JPA Query Language)

References and Dependency Injection

• Role of References
• EJB Reference Annotations
• Resource Reference Annotations
• Dependency Injection
• Annotation Injection
• Deployment Descriptor Injection
• Class Level References
• Multiple References
• EJB References in Deployment Descriptors
• Resource References in Deployment Descriptors
• Reference Lookup
• EJBContext
• JNDI Lookup with EJBContext
• Overriding Reference Annotations
• Default Reference Name
• Resolving References
• mappedName Attribute
• Overloaded Reference Names
• Reference Best Practices

Java Persistence Query Language (JPA QL)

• JPA Query Language
• Basic JPAQL Syntax
• Simple SELECT Examples
• The SELECT clause
• Reading Data from Code
• The WHERE Clause
• Using JPAQL from Session EJB
• Named Query
• Multiple Named Queries
• Bulk Updates
• Bulk Delete
• Running Native SQL Query
• Native SELECT Query
• Native SQL Delete and Insert
• Named Native Query
• Entity Relationship Overview and One-to-One
• Relationship Between Entities
• Anatomy of a Relationship
• Foreign Key
• Schema
• One-to-One Unidirectional
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing the Relationship
• The Cascade Behavior
• One-to-One Bidirectional
• Traversing the Relationship

Complex Entity Relationships

• One-To-Many and Many-To-One
• Many-to-One Unidirectional
• Modeling One-to-Many
• Many-to-Many
• Modeling Many-to-Many
• Unidirectional One-to-Many
• Modeling Unidirectional One-to-Many
• Relationship in JPA QL
• Fetching Optimizations
• Lazy vs. Eager Initialization
• Lazy Initialization
• Problems with Lazy Initialization
• Fetch Join Query

Entity Inheritance

• Inheritance
• Inheritance and Entities
• Inheritance Strategies
• Single Table Per Class Hierarchy
• Pros and Cons
• Table Per Concrete Class
• Table Per Concrete Class: JBoss Warning
• Table Per Concrete Class
• Table Structure: Table Per Concrete Class
• Table Per Concrete Class: Pros and Cons
• Joined Subclasses
• Table Structure: Joined Subclasses
• Joined Subclasses: Pros and Cons
• Which Approach To Use?