JBoss Clustering

Prerequisites:

Completion of the JBoss for Advanced J2EE Developers course is strongly recommended before taking this course. It is also strongly recommended that the student has at minimum 18 month practical development experience using J2EE and other Java middleware technologies, and it is suggested that the student have some practical experience with JBoss Application Server. Solid Java programming experience (minimum 3 years) is required and understanding of basic TCP/IP topics is necessary.

Course Description:

Clustering is an advanced course focusing on the high availability services of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), including JGroups, JBoss Cache, load balancing, and more. This course fills a four-day specialty training credit for the Middleware Track, and may be applied to the required number of training days for Certified JEMS Middleware Expert and Certified JEMS Master Architect levels.

You will learn how JBoss Application Server leverages JGroups and JBoss Cache for replication and fail-over, how to configure, tune and implement JGroups protocol stacks, how to leverage JBoss Cache in your own middleware application implementation and how to use and configure mod_jk for HTTP load balancing. We will also cover in some detail JBoss Application Server high availability services such as HA-JNDI, HA-JMS and HA-singleton.

This course includes the following modules:

Course Topics

• JBoss State of the Union
• Overview to JEMS High Availability Services
• Reliable Multicasting with JGroups
• JGroups Protocols
• Protocol Stacks and Implementation
• JGroups Building Blocks and Troubleshooting
• JBoss Cache Overview and API
• Cache Loaders and Eviction Policies
• Cache Replication, Transactions and Isolation Levels
• JBoss Cache AOP Overview and API
• JBoss Cache AOP Implementation
• Web Tier Load Balancing and Failover
• EJB Load Balancing and Failover
• JEMS Clustered Services
• JMS Failover and Load Balanced MDB