Course Title and Description

• Title: J2EE Programming (with Passion!)
• Description: In its short history of existence, J2EE became the architecture and platform of choice for building and deploying n-tier, web-based, transactional, and component-based enterprise applications.  This course starts with discussing high-level overview of J2EE architecture.  It then covers in detail individual Java programming API's and technologies that constitute J2EE platform including Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) at Web tier and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and Java Message Service (JMS) at business tier.  Important features of J2EE such as security, persistence, transaction are also discussed in detail.  Also how to develop and deploy Web services over J2EE platform is discussed.   Throughout the course, relevant Java programming APIs and their usage are also studied.  Students are expected to do "hands-on programming" homework's and final project designing and programming J2EE applications using the J2EE Programming APIs and technologies.

• By the end of the course, students are expected to
• Understand J2EE as an architecture and platform for building and deploying web-based, n-tier, transactional, component-based enterprise applications
• Understand the concept of Servlet and JSP as dynamic content generation technologies at web-tier and acquire relevant Java programming experience
• Understand the EJB architecture and have a good grasp on when to use and how to use various EJB bean types and acquire relevant Java programming experience
• Understand the concept of other relevant J2EE APIs and technologies and aquire relevant Java programming experience
• Acquire knowledge on how various J2EE technologies are used together to build enterprise applications
• Students are also expected to experience the following during the course.
• Having extreme fun!
• Being passionate!
• Appreciating what you've got!
• Appreciating your fellow human beings!
• Enjoying little things in life!

• Please see the course schedule
  

• The syllabus for "Advanced J2EE Programming (with Passion!)" course is moved to here.
  

• Advanced J2EE Features: Security, Persistence, and Transaction (60 minutes):  (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 4 slides per page)  (StarOffice file)
• B2B Integration (60 minutes): (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 4 slides per page)  (StarOffice file)
• IndustryVision (30 minutes):  (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 4 slides per page)  (StarOffice file)
• Java: Now and Future (60 minutes): (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 4 slides per page)  (StarOffice file)
• Grid Computing (60 minutes): (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 1 slide per page)  (StarOffice file)
• Solaris and Linux for Developers (60 minutes): (PDF slides with speaker notes)  (PDF 4 slides per page)  (StarOffice file)

Background Topics (We might or might not cover these topics depending on students' familiarity on the subjects)

• Distributed computing Basics (slides from Sang Shin's "Distributed Programming using Jini" class)
• Security Basics (45 minutes):   (PDF: Slides with speaker notes)  (PDF: 4 slides per page)   (StarOffice file)
• Java Security (slides from Sang Shin) or Java Security tutorial (from java.sun.com)
• XML Basics (slides from Sang Shin's "XML" class) or XML tutorial (from Java WSDP)
• XML Schema Tutorial (1 hour) (slides from Sang Shin's "XML" class)

• Interview article (02/2002, java.sun.com)
• Core Java APIs for Web services (03/2002, www.sun.com/developers)
  
• Discovering and publishing Web services using JAXR (06/2002, JavaWorld)
  
• Securing Web Services (03/2003, JavaWorld)
  

I would like to offer an opportunity to anybody in this class to create (and/or deliver) presentation slides for a certain subject of your choice.  The ground rules I am thinking about are

• You can choose any subject of your choice from the list of
• Syllabus of J2EE Programming course
• Syallbus of Advanced J2EE Programming course
• The contents should be 1 slide per minute range (or 2 slides for 3 minutes) with relatively detailed speaker note (please see example in what myself and Sameer created.)
• Your name will be on the first page of the presentation as primary author while Sameer or myself will be co-author of the contents
• Your suggestion/ideas on new contents or comments on existing contents are always welcome.  Please send me (sang.shin@sun.com) an email.

• Java programming - If you are learning Java programming language first time, please go to this tutorial site.
• XML basics - If your XML basics knowledge has been rusted a bit, please go to the XML class website and take a look at XML Fundamental slides and read other introductory materials
• HTML basics

• Download and install J2EE 1.4 SDK.
  
• It contains the following.  You can download these software individually from here.
  
• Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2
• J2SE 5.0
• J2EE 1.4 SDK
  
• J2EE 1.4 API Documentation
• Download and install NetBeans IDE 5.0
  
• Choose an Operating System and a Localization Language, and click next button.
• Download and install NetBeans IDE 5.0 Installer. 
  
• Download and install NetBeans Profiler 5.0 Installer after you finished the installation of the NetBeans IDE.
• For those of you who do not have high-speed internet connection, Sun Microsystem sends you a CD that contains NetBeans IDE 5.0 software for free including free shipping (international shipping included). Please order one from the following link. (You have to be a member of Sun Developer Network first.)
  
• Order Your Free NetBeans worldTour CD
  
• Download and unzip J2EE 1.4 Tutorial Update 7 (for Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2)
  

• We are going to use the following NetBeans tutorials as well
• Please also listen and see Flash demos of NetBeans 5.0
  
• NetBeans community maintains NetBeans IDE FAQ.  Please take a look at this FAQ if you experience any problems.  You can also post your questions to nbusers@netbeans.org mailing list.
  

• cygwin (download setup.exe and then double-click on it)
  
• Freely downloable utility programs that allows you to use most Unix commands within DOS terminal
• Examples
• grep Hello */* */*/*  (to find all references of "Hello" string among any files under */* and */*/* case-sensitive)
  
• grep -i hello */* */*/* (to find all references of "hello" string among any files under */* and */*/* case insensitive)
• diff file1.java file2.java
  
• InfoRapid search and replace utility program
• Freely downloadable utility program that lets you search and/or replace any string in a directory and its subdirectories

• Even though you are welcome to use whatever App server or IDE of your choice in taking this class, I would recommend that you use the app server we choose (Sun Java System App Server, that comes with J2EE 1.4 SDK or NetBeans IDE 4.1) for the class and NetBeans IDE 4.1 if possible due to the following reasons:

• The class instructions on how to build J2EE application will be based on Sun Java System App Server (and using NetBeans IDE 4.1).
  
• If you are experiencing a problem in building and deploying your application using an App server that is not Sun Java System App Server or NetBeans IDE 4.1, you are basically on your own in figuring out what went wrong.  You are welcome to post your questions to the class alias, however.
• Sun Java System App Server and NetBeans IDE should prefectly coexist with other App servers and other IDE's in your system. (Of course you do not run two app servers at the same time due to possible port conflict.)
• If you decide to use NetBeans IDE 4.1, yet if you want to deploy the apps over other App server platform (JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic), NetBeans community has been working to build plug-in's for those app servers.  They are now early preview stage (as of May 18th, 2005) and available from the following website.  Please feel free to use modules.
  
• Server-plugin project website of NetBeans (http://serverplugins.netbeans.org/)
  

• 6 months of Java programming experience. (If you have some object-programming experience like in C++ but no Java programming experience, you can easily pick up Java programming knowledge by following Basic Java tutorials found in java.sun.com.)
• Basic understanding on XML
• Understanding on basic security schemes and Java Cryptography will be helpful but not required
• Understanding on general network programming (i.e. socket programming) will be helpful but not required

• There is no designated textbook for this course.  Instead, we are going to use publicly available online materials.
• Of course, you are welcome to use any J2EE/EJB/Servlet/JSP/JMS book of your choice as pre-class or after-class reading materials
• Once we start using J2EE 1.4 SDK, we will use extensive documentation and sample codes that come with it (J2EE 1.4 is based on Sun Java System App Server)
  
• Sun Java System App Server 7 Document Collection
  
• If you want my recommendation on Servlet/JSP books, I would recommend the following:
• Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages  (Sun Microsystems Press and Prentice Hall, 05/2000) written by Marty Hall (PDF file is freely downloadable)
  
• More Servlets and JavaServer Pages (2002) written by Marty Hall (This is a sequel to Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages from Mary.  There is *no* publicly downloadable PDF file for this book.  But this is very well-written book with lots of example code.)
  
• If you want my recommendation on J2EE/EJB books, I would recommend the following:
• Applied Enterprise JavaBeans Technology written by Kevin Boone, 2003, Prentice Hall (There is *no* publicly downloadable PDF file for this book.  But I would claim this book is worth your money.  I know it because I am one of the two technical reviewers of this book.)
• Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans written by Ed Roman, 2002, 2nd Edition (PDF file is freely downloadable)
• Bitter EJB written by Bruce Tate, Mike Clark, Bob Lee, and Patrick Linskey, 2003, Manning (You have to buy the book.)