JAVA    (Level II)

JAVA'S ROLE IN DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT

Distributed computing model

• Architectural components
• Deploying distributed object systems
• Entering the Object Web era

Java 2 support for the enterprise

• Accessing data with JDBC
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) clients
• Servlets
• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
• The Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment

DATABASE PROGRAMMNG WITH JDBC

The JDBC architecture

• Benefits of JDBC
• Analyzing the JDBC driver types

The JDBC Application Programming Interface (API)

• Connecting to a database
• Querying and modifying a database with SQL

Creating advanced database queries

• Optimizing queries with prepared statements
• Adding flexibility with parameterized statements

APPLYING RMI

RMI architecture

• RMI as Pure Java object bus
• Dissecting the RMI model
• Stubs
• Skeletons
• Transport
• Remote Reference Layer
• Exploring the RMI API

Creating RMI servers and clients

• Exposing functionality of interfaces
• Publishing objects with the RMI registry
• Using serialization to pass Java objects
• Looking up remote objects

DEPLOYING CORBA OBJECTS

CORBA architecture

• CORBA 2.0 and IIOP
• Object Request Brokers (ORBs)
• Interface Definition Language (IDL)

Building a flexible RMI/CORBA system

• The Internet InterOrb Protocol (IIOP)
• Connecting with Portable Object Adapters (POAs)
• Accessing CORBA with RMI over IIOP

BUILDING REUSABLE EJB ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS COMPONENTS

The component dream

• Why components?
• Review of JavaBeans

The EJB architecture

• The EJB framework
• Roles of the EJB client and server
• Building secure EJB systems
• Accessing legacy data using J2EE connectors

Developing robust applications using EJB

• Roles of the EJB deployer
• Creating Session and Entity EJB
• Session and Entity EJB life cycles
• Utilizing stateful and stateless EJB

Maintaining integrity with EJB

• Adding security to EJB
• Monitoring transactions from EJB
• Adding transactional support at deployment
• Standard EJB architectural designs

Other J2EE APIs

• Exploiting the power of Java Transaction Services (JTS)
• Using asynchronous processes with Java Messaging Services (JMS)
• Locating functionality with Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)