Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE

This lesson describes the goals of the course and explains the fundamentals of enterprise architecture applications.

Lessons:

• Describe the goals of the course

• Describe the need for software architecture

• Define enterprise and enterprise application architecture

• Define an architect’s roles and responsibilities

• List the challenges of enterprise applications

• Lab:

• Define software architecture

• What is enterprise architecture

• An architect’s roles and responsibilities

This lesson describes the fundamentals of the enterprise architecture development environment.

Lessons:

• Distinguish between architecture and design

• Select the architecture type

• Describe the use of architectural patterns

• Describe common enterprise architecture frameworks

• Describe the architecture workflow

• Lab:

• Describe the diagrams of the key architecture views

• Create UML Component and Deployment diagrams modeling the case study exercise architecture

This lesson explains the need for implementing security in a distributed computing environment and describes the security services that are available within the Java technology.

 Lessons:

• Security technologies and regulatory constraints

• Web services security

• Impact of security in distributed computing

• Lab:

• Security in the Java EE technology

• Identify security risks in the architecture

This lesson describes the nonfunctional requirements of an enterprise application.

Lessons:

• Examining Non-functional requirements (NFRs)

• Inspecting QoS requirements for trade-off opportunities

• Common practices for improving qualities

• Lab:

• Prioritizing Quality-ofService requirements

• Consider the impact of non-functional requirements on your architecture

• Identify ways to address the non-functional requirements

This lesson explains how to identify key risk factors in a distributed system and how to design a flexible object model.

 Lessons:

• Identifying key risk factors

• Lab:

• Designing a flexible object model

• Use patterns to make the Domain model more flexible

• Identify and model services to support a more flexible architecture

This lesson defines the guidelines for creating a network model, justifying the use of transactions and planning system capacity.

Lessons:

• Describing network communication guidelines

• Lab:

• Justifying the use of transactions

• Consider how to refine the architecture to minimize network load

• Planning system capacity

• Identify transaction boundaries and the effect of transactions on the architecture

• Weigh options for capacity planning

This lesson describes the new features in Java EE 6 and their impact on J2EE and Java EE 5 architectures.

Lessons:

• Java EE 6 Goals

• Distributed Multitiered Applications

• Java EE Server Communications

• Web Tier and Java EE Applications

• Business and EIS Tiers

• Java EE Containers

• New Features: EJBs

• New Features: Java Servlet Technology

• New Features: JSF 2.0

• New Features: Java API for RESTful Web Services

• New Features: Managed Beans

• New Features: Context and Dependency Injection

• Overview of CDI

• Beans as Injectable Objects

• New Features: Bean Validation

• New Features: Java Persistence API

• “Classical” J2EE / Java EE 5 Architecture

• Impact of Java EE 6 on Architecture

• Lab:

• How does applying the new features of Java EE 6 change your existing architecture?

This lesson describes the roles involved in client tier development and identifies the concerns associated with client tier information architecture.

Lessons:

• Client tier development roles

• Security concerns in the Client tier

• Information Architecture Client tier concerns

• Testing

• Selecting user interface devices and technologies

• Lab:

• Discovering reusability in the Client tier

• Choose appropriate client technologies based on the user’s requirements

• Deployment strategies for the user interface

• Refine the architecture to enable a better user experience

This lesson describes the roles involved with the development of the web tier.

Lessons:

• Responsibilities of the Web tier

• Providing security in the Web tier

• Separation of Concerns

• Scaling the Web tier

• Comparing Web tier frameworks

• Lab:

• Modify your web architecture to support your new UI choices from the lesson titled “Developing an Architecture for the Client Tier”

This lesson describes the value in using enterprise application container services.

Lessons:

• Business tier technologies

• Lab:

• Architecting the domain model

• Refine the business architecture to support the more granular access requirements of the improved user interface and Web tier

• Development best practices

• Interact with persistence frameworks to access data

• Choose which of several architectural solutions are appropriate for the problem

This lesson describes the challenges in enterprise information system integration.

Lessons:

• Examining Enterprise Information System integration

• Examining ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA)

• Reviewing Java integration technologies

• Lab:

• Applying Integration tier patterns

• Interacting with external vendors and service providers

• Presenting the system as a set of services

This lesson describes the use of architecture evaluation guidelines in evaluating Java EE technologies and their applicability.

Lessons:

• Evaluating software architectures

• Lab:

• Evaluating Java EE technologies

• Discuss solutions to two real-world architectural problems

• Creating system prototypes

• Practice solving a small capstone case-study

• Selecting servers and frameworks