» Introduction

• Bricks of the Java EE 7 specification.
• Best practices of design: Separating responsibilities, KISS, DRY, POJO.
• What's new compared to version 6.
• Overview of Java EE, the Spring framework.

» Work environment

• The Eclipse environment. Maven dependencies.
• Unit tests with the embedded container.
• Using webtools, getting started with the server.
• Hands-on work ¤Instaling IDE and the server.

» N-tier breakdown and dependency injection

• Breakdown into layers, the POJO approach.
• Scopes and state management.
• Dependency injections.
• Interceptors.
• Hands-on work ¤Setting up an n-tier application, using CDI (dependency injection).

» Access to the data with JPA

• Relational object mapping (xml, annotations).
• Lazy loading.
• Working with API : EntityManager, etc.
• JPA-QL, API Criteria, MetaModel, EntityGraph.
• Transactions, the annotation @Transactional JTA 1.2.
• Hands-on work ¤Setting up the data access layer.

» Distributed architecture with EJB and JMS

• Technical services of the EJB API: Security, remoting, concurrent access, asynchronous access, timers.
• Positioning of EJBs with respect to CDI beans.
• JMS for exchanging messages.
• Hands-on work ¤Setting up services with the Sessions EJB and a message exchange bus with JMS.

» Web and JSF

• Concepts (MVP, Presenter, View).
• Facelets, taglibs, jsf-el.
• JSR303 validation.
• Implementing Ajax.
• Hands-on work ¤Implementing JSF 2.2 and Ajax.

» REST Web Services

• JAX-RS API for RESTful web services.
• HTTP refreshers: Verbs, contentType, etc.
• CORS: Cross Origin Shared Resource. HATEOAS.
• Producing and consuming objects via the JSON processing Java API.
• Hands-on work ¤Exposing services, consuming those REST services via a Web client (AngularJS).

» Websockets

• Real-time web concepts.
• Support by browsers, fallback mechanisms.
• Set-up on server and client sides.
• Hands-on work ¤Adding a websocket connection to the Web client.