During this 4-day Java EE course, authored and taught by Sun Microsystems, you will learn to develop lectures for enterprise Java apps using Java EE technology. You will gain an understanding of technical context of Java EE and of relevant technologies of the technical context of the Java EE and relevant technologies and strategies needed to create application blueprints that work well when implementing Java EE technologies.

• Make good use of Java EE component technologies to solve critical problems in system architecture
• Derive software systems using techniques outlined in the Java EE Blueprint and solutions defined in the Java EE Patterns catalog
• Address quality-of-service requirements in a cost-effective manner using engineering trade-off techniques
• Describe the role of the architect and the products an architect delivers
• List and describe typical problems associated with large-scale enterprise systems

Introducing Fundamental Architectural Concepts

• Understand the challenges of enterprise applications
• Define software architecture
• Understand the need for software architecture
• Understand an architect6's roles, responsibilities, and deliverables
• Understand architecture modeling using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Understand the differences and similarities between architecture and design
• Describe the SunTone(SM) Architecture Methodology

Understanding Systemic Qualities

• Describe the systemic qualities of an enterprise application
• Describe common practices for improving systemic qualities
• Prioritize quality-of-service (QoS) requirements
• Inspect for trade-off opportunities

Examining System Architecture Development Heuristics and Guidelines

• Identify key risk factors in distributed enterprise systems
• Design a flexible object model
• Understand the guidelines of creating a network model
• Justify the use of transactions
• Plan system capacity

Developing an Architecture for the Client Tier

• Describe the roles involved in client-tier development
• Understand Information Architecture client-tier concerns
• Understand how to select a user interface device that will fit your application requirements
• Describe how reuse can apply to the client tier
• Understand strategies for deploying Java desktop-based applications
• Be familiar with the security concerns of the client tier

Developing an Architecture for the Web Tier

• Describe the roles involved with the development of the web tier
• Understand the Separation of Concerns
• Describe the strategies for implementing the presentation concerns of the web tier
• Describe the strategies for implementing the data concerns of the web tier
• Describe the strategies for managing the presentation, data, and logic-related concerns of the web tier
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of request- and component-oriented web-tier frameworks
• Describe strategies for implementing authentication and authorization in the web tier
• Address the concerns of scaling web applications

Developing an Architecture for the Business Tier

• Understand the value in using enterprise application container services
• Describe the architectural options for implementing domain model services
• Describe the architectural options for implementing domain model entities
• Distribute domain model components
• Understand the best practices for exception handling and logging

Developing an Architecture for the Integration and Resource Tiers

• Describe the challenges in Enterprise Information System (EIS) integration
• Describe the roles of the integration tier
• Describe the EIS resource tier
• Review Java integration technologies and best practices
• Apply integration-tier patterns
• Understand how Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates system integration
• Describe SOA best practices

Developing a Security Architecture

• Analyze the impact of security in distributed computing
• Understand the security services in Java EE technology
• Understand security requirements for web services

Evaluating the Software Architecture

• Describe architecture evaluation guidelines
• Evaluate Java EE technologies and their applicability
• Create system prototypes