Detailed Syllabus

Java EE

• Introduction to Java EE – Architecture, Features, Advantages etc...
• Existing Enterprise application frameworks and comparision.

Introduction to Java Web Applications

• Overview of Java Web Application Development
• Overview of Servlets: advantages, disadvantages, API, life-cycle, etc.
• Java Web Application development life-cycle
• Writing Code
• Compiling Code
• Writing Deployment Descriptors (WEB-INF/web.xml files)
• Packaging web applications (generating WAR files)
• Deploying web applications (e.g. on Tomcat)
• Overview of Java Servlet Filters: uses, API, life-cycle, etc.
• Overview of JavaServer Pages (JSP): advantages, disadvantages, API, life-cycle, etc.
• Overview of JSTL
• Overview of JSP Expression Language (EL)
• Best practices with Servlets and JSPs: examples and labs
• Introduction to JDBC and focus on Boilerplate code.
• Effective use of Connection Pools and issues with repetitive code.
• Design issues with servlets, JSPs

Hibernate

• Overview of Object-relational-mapping (ORM) frameworks
• Overview of Hibernate: advantages, features, etc.
• Overview of EJB3's JPA
• Switching from JDBC to Hibernate
• Installing and configuring Hibernate
• Mapping entities with Hibernate Annotations
• Mapping associations and collections
• One-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many
• Understanding directionality (e.g. bi-directional)
• Mapping inheritance (understanding different strategies)
• Getting and using Hibernate session
• Understanding transactions
• Storing entities
• Retrieving data
• Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
• Named queries
• Criteria API
• Query by example
• Filtering data
• Understanding entity states: transient, persistent, and detached
• Tuning Hibernate: fetching strategies and caching
• Best-practices: examples, and labs

Spring Framework

• Overview of Spring
• Drawbacks of previous approachaes
• Inversion of control (IoC) with Dependency Injection (DI) design patterns
• Advantages of Spring: programming to interfaces, testability, modularity, etc.
• Spring framework as a replacement for EJB
• Overview of the Spring Container
• Wiring beans with Spring
• Via XML
• Via Annotations
• Spring-Hibernate integration
• Transaction management
• Via Annotations (@Transactional)
• Via XML
• Understanding transaction propagation
• Understanding AOP in Spring
• Overview of Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
• Overview of Spring MVC
• Switching from Servlets to Spring
• Installing and configuring Spring
• Overview of Spring Controllers
• Controller (interface) vs @Controller
• Handler (controller) mapping strategies
• View resolver strategies
• Overview of Spring validation with JSR 303 with Hibernate Validator (@Valid, @NotNull, @Size, @NotEmpty, @Email, etc.)
• Custom validation annotations and validators
• Best-practices: examples, and labs

Spring Security Framework

• Overview of container-managed security
• Overview of Spring Security framework
• Switcing from container-managed to Spring security
• Installing and configuring Spring Security
• Exposing security context in the application
• Creating authentication and authorization-aware user interfaces
• Securing the business layer with JSR 250-style method-based annotations (AOP)