Building Modern Java Enterprise Apps: JPA, EJB3, & JSF

• Establishing components of an enterprise architecture
• Streamlining the development process with Java EE

Demystifying the JPA architecture

• Identifying the major components of JPA
• Establishing access with the EntityManager

Applying JPA core operations

• Persisting and retrieving entity objects
• Employing JPA to manually manage transactions
• Updating and deleting entity objects in the database

Effectively representing object associations

• Capturing single- and multi-valued associations
• Representing Java collections

Choosing appropriate inheritance strategies

• Employing techniques for class-to-database mapping
• Contrasting the database schema for different inheritance strategies

Working with Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

• Selecting data with the JPQL API
• Building maintainable database access with named queries
• Avoiding SQL insertion attacks with query parameters

Implementing the business tier with EJB stateless and stateful beans

• Encapsulating scalable business logic with JavaBeans
• Accessing session beans remotely
• Managing conversation across multiple requests with stateful beans

Applying advanced strategies of session beans

• Adding behaviors with method interceptors
• Triggering timer-based and asynchronous services

Exploring other EJB types

• Managing resources with Singleton beans
• Implementing robust message receivers with MDB

Applying declarative transactions with JPA

• Approaches to working with Java Transaction API (JTA)
• Managing transaction strategies with annotations

Securing a Java EE application

• Enforcing application security with Java EE
• Configuring authentication and authorization across the tiers

JSF architecture

• Exploring the request processing cycle
• Managing application flow using JSF navigation model

Constructing a JSF application

• Creating views with JSF custom tags
• Handling user events with backing beans
• Taking advantage of the Unified Expression Language

Building views with facelets

• Arranging the UI component layout
• Localizing messages using Resource Bundles
• Achieving code reuse with templates

Leveraging Ajax to improve the user experience

• Sharpening response with the asynchronous web model
• Combining Ajax functionality with JSF

Exchanging information with JSON

• JSON: The format for Web 2.0
• Syntax and samples of JSON formatting

The responsive web

• Combining HTML formatting with JavaScript actions
• Building client-side Models, Views and Routes

Communicating with Java EE via REST

• Accessing a REST service with an Ajax call
• Generating a JSON response on the server side

• Creating an example list-detail application
• Tailoring the sample application to make it your own