• What is a filter?
• Why use a filter?
• Uses for Filtering
• Features of filters
• The Filter interface
• How a filter works
• In what order?
• A simple logging filter
• Configuring the filter
• Mapping the filter
• The Web Deployment Descriptor
• Common filter tasks
• Request and Response Wrappers

Servlet Event Listener

• What are Listeners?
• Types of Listeners
• Writing a Servlet Context Listener
• Writing a Servlet Context Attribute Listener
• Writing a Session Activation Listener
• Writing a Session Attribute Listener
• Registering Listeners
• Lifecycle of Listeners

JSP Custom Tag Developmnet

• What is Custom Tag?
• Why Develop Custom Tags?
• The Nature of a Custom Tag
• Tag Body
• Fragment Attribute
• Dynamic Attributes
• Tag Library Descriptor (TLD)
• Tag Implementation Options
• The Simple Tag API
• Life Cycle of a Simple Tag
• The JspContext Object
• Dealing with the Body
• Implementing an Iteration Tag
• Accessing a Parent Tag
• Working with Fragment Attributes
• The TLD File
• Defining a Tag
• Packaging a Tag Library
• Using a Tag Library
• The Tag File Approach
• The Tag Directive
• Defining Attributes
• Working with Variables
• Working with Fragment Attributes
• Packaging Tag Files
• Creating the TLD File
• Using a Tag File from a JSP

JEE Security

• JEE Authentication mechanisms
• Basic authentication
• Form-based authentication
• Client certificate authentication
• JEE Authorization
• Declaritive security on Web Resources
• Programmatic security on Web Resources
• Security role reference
• Defining security roles using annotations
• Delegation
• Declaritive security on EJB Resources
• Protecting beans using annotations
• Protecting beans using the deployment descriptor
• Programmatic security on EJB application
• Delegation

Java EE 5 Annotation Programming

• What are Annotations?
• Java Metadata Specification
• Where Can Annotations Be Used?
• Resource Annotations
• @Resource, @Resources
• @EJB
• @Persistence Annotations
• @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy
• @WebServiceRef

Introduction to JavaServer Faces

• What is JavaServer Faces (JSF)?
• Why Use JSF?
• Nature of a JSF Application
• The Sun Reference Implementation (RI)
• JSF and MVC
• Faces Servlet
• Managed Bean
• The View
• Page Flow or Navigation Rule
• How Does the Application Work?
• The Rendered Form HTML
• The Layout Tree

Managed Bean

• What is a Managed Bean?
• Why Do You Need a Managed Bean?
• Managed Bean as a Controller
• Registering a Managed Bean
• Lifecycle of a Managed Bean
• Initializing a Managed Bean
• What Scope to Use?
• Value Binding
• Property Data Conversion
• Advanced Property Types
• Component Binding
• Other Binding Types
• Basic Input Processing
• Advanced Input Processing
• JSF Expression Language
• Language Basics
• Use of Expression in JSF
• Basic Expression
• Property Access Expression
• Map Access Expression
• Complex Access Expression
• Predefined Objects
• Operators

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) Overview

• Need for EJBs
• Distributed Computing
• Distrubted 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

Introduction to Struts

• What is Struts?
• Why Struts?
• Struts Components
• The Controller Layer
• Chain of Command
• The Controller Layer
• The View Layer
• The Form Bean
• A Simple Action
• Struts Configuration
• Define HelloAction
• Invoking HelloAction
• Finding Information About Struts