Effective EJBs

Objective:

  • Enterprise Java Beans can be a boon or a curse. Used effectively, they provide a mechanism for building reliable, scalable, maintainable business logic; used inappropriately they lead to complex, unmaintainable, poorly performing systems. This course provides application designers with in-depth knowlege of the internals of EJB and how to effectively use them (or not) to build enterprise applications.

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with J2EE technologies including EJBs, JMS and JCA.
  • Familiarity with data access technologies including SQL and JDBC.
  • The content is aimed at enterprise architects and senior developers responsible for the design of enterprise systems.

Syllabus:

  • Day 1 -- Business Tier Fundamentals
  • Design Goals
  • Scalability vs. Performance
  • Transactions and Isolation
  • To EJB or Not To EJB ...
  • Day 2 -- Service Oriented Architecture
  • Service Design
  • Session EJBs as Services
  • Integrating Web Services
  • Messaging Services
  • Day 3 -- Business Data Model
  • Entity EJBs: Good or Bad?
  • Effective CMP Entities
  • Complex CMP Configuration
  • Effective BMP Entities
  • Day 4 -- Scaling Up
  • Clustering in the Business Tier
  • Pessimistic and Optimistic Locking
  • Fine Tuning Isolation

Where and When:

  • Coming Soon

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