1Z0-900: Developing Applications for the Java EE 7 Platform

Introduction to Java EE

• Standards, containers, APIs, and services
• Application component functionalities mapped to tiers and containers
• Interconnect Application Components with CDI Annotations and JNDI
• Web container technologies, Business logic implementation technologies, and web service technologies
• Packaging and deployment
• Enterprise JavaBeans, managed beans, and CDI beans
• Understanding lifecycle and memory scopes
• Linking components together with annotations, injections, and JNDI

Managing Persistence by Using JPA Entities

• Create JPA entities with Object-Relational Mappings (ORM)
• Use Entity Manager to perform database operations with JPA entities
• Handle entity data with conversions, validations, and key generation
• Describe persistence management and locking mechanisms
• Create and execute JPQL statements

Implementing Business Logic by Using EJBs

• Create Session EJB components
• Create EJB business methods
• Manage EJB life cycle with container callbacks
• Use asynchronous EJB operations
• Control transactions
• Create EJB timers
• Create and apply interceptors

Using Java Message Service API

• Describe Java Message Service (JMS) API messaging models
• Implement Java SE and Java EE message producers and consumers
• Use durable and shared topic consumer subscriptions
• Create message-driven beans
• Use transactions with JMS

Implementing SOAP Services by Using JAX-WS

• Describe a SOAP Web Service structure
• Create SOAP Web Services using JAX-WS API
• Create SOAP Web Service clients

Creating Java Web Applications by Using Servlets

• Describe HTTP basics
• Create Java servlet classes and map then to URLs
• Handle HTTP headers, parameters, cookies
• Use servlets to handle different content types
• Manage servlet life cycle with container callback methods
• Use CDI Managed Beans
• Use Interceptors and Filters
• Implement asynchronous servlets and use NIO API

Creating Java Web Applications by Using JSPs

• Describe JSP life cycle
• Describe JSP syntax
• Use Expression Language (EL)
• Use CDI Beans
• Use Tag Libraries
• Handle errors

Implementing REST Services using JAX-RS API

• Understand REST service conventions
• Create REST services using JAX-RS API
• Consume REST service within the client tier

Creating Java Applications with WebSockets

• Understand WebSockets communication style
• Create WebSocket Endpoint Handlers using JSR 356 API
• Manage WebSocket Endpoint lifecycle
• Produce and consume WebSocket messages
• Handle Errors
• Encode and Decode JSON messages
• Provide WebSocket Client Endpoint handler using JavaScript

Develop Web Applications Using JavaServer Faces

• Describe JSF lifecycle and architecture, and understand JSF syntax
• Use JSF Tag Libraries
• Apply Validators and Converters to UIComponents
• Use UI templates
• Define navigation, and handle localisation
• Produce messages
• Use Expression Language (EL), and CDI Beans
• Add AJAX support

Securing Java EE Applications

• Understand Java EE security architecture
• Configure Authentication using Login Modules
• Define Application Roles and Security Constraints
• Use programmatic security
• WebServices security standards

Appendixes/Additional Content

• Java Logging
• CDI Beans
• BeanValidation and JPA API
• Batch and Concurrency APIs
• JAXB API
• "Pre-CDI" Servlet Examples