Too often, enterprise applications are developed without being aligned with the organization’s core goals and strategic directions.  These vital architecture decisions can have a considerable impact on technology choices as well as on crucial features such as maintainability, performance, flexibility, security, and cost.

This intensive 4-day instructor-led workshop begins with a study of distributed systems and their impact on the business.  This will include an overview of the technology options for remote communication in Java.  The workshop will examine a variety of architectural patterns, with a focus on knowing when, and when not, to apply them.  It will then look at how many of today’s Java enterprise technology options fit with your business architectural decisions; including GUI development and Java Web frameworks such as Struts and Java Server Faces, application frameworks such as Spring and EJB, and persistent frameworks such as Hibernate and the Java Persistence API.  This inevitably leads to a discussion about the trade-offs in building customized frameworks.

The labs for this workshop will utilize Java technologies that are most appropriate to your needs. Labs will also make use of Test Driven Development strategies in order to focus on specific learning points.

Audience

• Java Developers and Architects

Pre-Requisites

• Solid Java experience

Students will learn to:

• Define Enterprise Architecture
• Understand the importance of aligning architecture with business goals
• Understand the architecture behind distributed systems
• Identify the Java technology options for remote communication
• RMI -iiop
• SOA
• JMS
• Identify and apply distributed computing patterns
• Create a distributed system using a Java remote communication technology
• Identify and apply high level architecture patterns
• Model-View-Controller
• Layered Architecture
• Data Transfer
• Identify and refactor architecture pitfalls and anti-patterns
• Build a business application layer that addresses maintainability, robustness, security, flexibility, performance, and more.
• Object-Oriented Design
• Coupling & Cohesion
• Stateful vs Stateless
• Threading
• Clustering
• Understand the benefits and drawbacks of application frameworks
• EJB
• Spring
• Effectively connect a presentation layer to a business application
• Understand the benefits of a Java MVC Web framework
• Action-based (Struts, Spring MVC, etc)
• Component-based (JSF, Tapestry, etc)
• Effectively connect a persistence layer to a business application
• Understand the benefits of implementing a persistence layer
• Transaction Management
• Caching
• Connection Pooling
• Implement persistence frameworks
• Hibernate
• Java Persistence API (JPA)
• Understand the benefits and pitfalls of creating custom frameworks