SL-425 Architecting and Designing J2EE™ Applications

Creating robust enterprise architectures for Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) applications requires a blueprint that allows for rapid growth. In addition to learning how to scale applications, participants in Architecting and Designing J2EE™ Applications learn a series of guidelines on how to address flexibility, performance, security, and manageability issues. Through discussion groups, participants learn how to apply these guidelines using selected architectural
strategies and design patterns to create J2EE applications. Some material is based on the J2EE Blueprints 1.0 companion book from Sun BluePrints™, Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, which has examples drawn from real-world
experiences. This course provides introductory, immediately applicable learning experience for new J2EE system architects.

Note: This is not a programming or coding ourse. If you are interested in coding
J2EE components, consider courses such s SL-310, SL-315, SL-330, SL-351, FJ-310,
or SL-500.

Who can benefit:

Enterprise application architects, system analysts, and senior developers who equire insight into the J2EE blueprint model and who need to learn architectural "best practices” for n-tier enterprise systems, as well as independent software vendors (ISVs) and consultants.

Prerequisites:

To succeed fully in this course, students should have:

• Taken a course on the Java™ programming language
• Experience with JavaBeans™ component technology
• Working knowledge of distributed computing and communications concepts
• Experience developing Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Design Rational Unified
• Process (RUP) models with UML
• Familiarity with J2EE technologyspecifications and client-server architecture

• Differentiate between architecture and design
• Explain the architectural process
• List and describe the capabilities and design goals of an architecture
• List and define the trade-offs that result from architectural decisions
• Describe the effects of J2EE technology on the capabilities and design goals
• Describe best practices and design guidelines for developing multitier architectures based on J2EE technology
• Describe the J2EE patterns and explain how they help solve key issues for enterprise applications