JAVA ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGIES: SUN'S J2EE (two-days, demo)
Instructor: Constantine Kaniklidis

Developed in 1991 (then known as "Oak"), and first released at SunWorld in 1995, Java has matured as the foremost distributed object technology tool, especially for web-enabled enterprise application development. To that end, Sun MicroSystems has been releasing a large number of increasingly sophisticated Enterprise APIs providing Java-based enterprise services especially for server-side deployment, bundled together as the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This seminar provides a high-level architectural and technical overview of these Enterprise APIs, with special attention to issues of deployment in n-Tier web-enabled Architectures. Special attention is given to choosing the optimal technology (benefits and limitations are discussed) and where best to deploy it within the broader architecture.

What is J2EE?
        The J2EE Framework and Distributed Computing Architectures
        The Strategic Status of  J2EE

J2EE and the Enterprise APIs
        JDBC
        RMI and RMI-IIOP
        Servlets 
        JSP (JavaServer Pages)
        JMS (Java Messaging Service)
        JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface)
        J2EE Transaction APIs
        J2EE XML APIs
        Other Enterprise APIs 

All about EJBs  (Enterprise JavaBeans)
        Entity Beans
        Session Beans: Stateful and Stateless 

J2EE Development and Deployment
        J2EE Development Tools
        J2EE-compliant Web Application Servers (WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun ONE/iPlanet)
        Integrating J2EE with Legacy Systems
        J2EE and Design Patterns
        J2EE and Web Services
        J2EE Security
        J2EE vs. the .NET Framework

The Future of J2EE