Advanced JBoss Enterprise Development

Overview

Advanced JBoss Enterprise Development (JB325) dives into the new version 5 of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) with an emphasis on advanced platform services and application programming interfaces (APIs). This course challenges experienced Java EE developers by providing a deep dive into JBoss EAP, features, internals, and Java EE best practices. Leveraging JBoss EAP 5 allows students to build, deploy, and maintain highly performing, scalable applications.

Diving into areas of JBoss technologies that differ from the non-JBoss enterprise middleware stacks, developers will be exposed to aspect-oriented programming (AOP), interceptors, JMX, and JBoss Services. In addition, students will be introduced to the new JBoss Messaging (for EAP 5.0).

Using JBoss Developer Studio extensively as a lab integrated development environment (IDE), hands-on labs allow developers to experience and explore JBoss Cache, JGroups, clustering, dynamic proxies, transactions, messaging, and performance tuning.

Audience

• Experienced Java developers seeking to enhance their utilization of JBoss
• Java developers who need a deeper understanding of JBoss to implement customized services based on remoting, JMX, or other protocols outside the normal JEE .ear or .war deployments
• ISV development teams who need to know JBoss more intimately to customize the server environment to better fit their applications´ deployment needs
• Application architects seeking to produce leaner, meaner deployment artifacts, resulting in better performance and integrity results

Prerequisites

• Two years of experience with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) or Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
• Proficient in HTML
• Experience with an integrated development environment (IDE), such as Eclipse or NetBeans, and build tools, such as Ant or Maven
• Basic knowledge of open source relational database management system (RDBMS)

Course Outline.

Introduction to JBoss

• The JBoss technology stack
• Installing and starting JBoss
• Lab: Install JBoss

JBoss architecture

• Technologies: JBoss EAP 4.3
• Lab: Classloading in JBoss

JMX

• Technologies: JMX
• Lab: Create and deploy a custom MBean
• Bonus lab: Manage the MBean from a client

Using aspects in JBoss

• Technologies: JBoss, AOB
• Lab: Create and deploy a custom interceptor

Connecting to JBoss

• Technologies: Java Connector architecture
• Lab: Set up data sources and tune them

Transactions in JBoss

• Technologies: JEE Transactions, JBoss Transactions

JBoss Cache

• Technologies: JBoss TreeCache, PojoCache
• Lab: Create and deploy a cached application

Clustering applications in JBoss

• Technologies: JBoss Clustering, PojoCache
• Lab: Deploy and cluster a stateless EJB
• Bonus lab: Deploy and cluster a stateful EJB

JGroups

• Technologies: JBoss Clustering, JGroups
• Lab: Configure JGroups to deploy and cluster a web application

Fine-tuning applications in JBoss

• Technologies: JBoss, JConsole
• Lab: Use JConsole to monitor garbage collection in JBoss

Container-managed security

• Technologies: JAAS, JBossSX
• Lab: Secure a web application in JBoss
• Bonus Lab: Secure and deploy a stateless EJB in JBoss

12. JBoss Messaging

• Technologies: JMS, JBoss Messaging
• Lab: Deploy four JMS queues and monitor performance under load
• Bonus lab: Test JBoss Cache state replication in JMS queues

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