Developing Applications with Java EE 6 on WebLogic Server 12c

Student Guide - Volume I

D65269GC30 Edition 3.0 June 2012 D77932

Authors
Matt Heimer Tom McGinn

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Technical Contr ibutors and Reviewer s

Amitava Kundu Anjana Shenoy Ben Tegha Bob Kellogg Camilla Haase Diganta Choudhury Evan Troyka Joe Boulenouar Mark Judd Ravi Narasimhacharya

Editor s
Malavika Jinka Aju Kumar Rashmi Rajagopal

Gr aphic Designer
Seema Bopaiah

Publisher s
Pavithran Adka Syed Ali

Contents

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Course Goals 1-2 Course Objectives 1-3 Audience 1-4 Topics Not Covered 1-5 How Prepared Are You? 1-7 Class Introductions 1-8 Course Environment 1-9 Java Technology Product Groups 1-10 Requirements of Enterprise Applications 1-11 Enterprise Application Infrastructure Technologies 1-12 Separation of Business Logic from Platform Services 1-13 Java EE Profiles 1-14 Java EE 6 Web Profile 1-15 Full Java EE 6 Requirements 1-17 Java EE Technology Specifications 1-18 Java EE Services and APIs 1-19 Java EE Component Containers 1-20 Java EE Service Infrastructure 1-21 Java EE Platform Tiers and Architecture 1-23 N-Tier Architectural Model 1-24 Java EETiered Architecture 1-25 Additional Resources 1-26 Quiz 1-27 Summary 1-30 Practice 1: Overview 1-32 Enterprise Development Tools and Application Servers Objectives 2-2 Java Application Servers 2-3 Java EE Implementations 2-4 Selecting an Application Server 2-5 Oracle WebLogic 12c 2-6 WebLogic 12c Zip Distribution 2-7 Development Tools 2-8

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Java EE Development Tools 2-9 Configuring NetBeans and WebLogic Server 2-10 Starting WebLogic Server with NetBeans 2-12 Steps for Developing a Java EE Application 2-13 Java EE Application Development Process 2-15 Java EE Containers 2-16 Java EE Component Characteristics 2-17 Component State and Properties 2-18 Encapsulated Components 2-19 Component Proxies 2-20 Configuring and Packaging Java EE Applications 2-21 Web Application Elements 2-23 Web Archive File Creation 2-24 Java Archive Files 2-25 Enterprise Archive Files 2-26 Deployment Descriptors 2-27 Vendor-Specific Deployment Descriptors 2-28 Quiz 2-29 Additional Resources 2-36 Summary 2-37 Practice 2: Overview 2-38 3 JavaBeans, Annotations, and Logging Objectives 3-2 Java SE Features Common in EE Applications 3-3 JavaBeans 3-4 What Are Suitable JavaBeans? 3-5 Features and Benefits of JavaBeans 3-6 Creating a JavaBean 3-7 Bean Properties 3-8 A Basic JavaBeans Component 3-9 Persistence 3-10 Tool Support 3-11 Quiz 3-12 Java Logging 3-13 Logging Frameworks 3-14 java.util.logging.Logger Class 3-15 Log Levels 3-16 Logging Method Categories 3-17 Logging Method Usage 3-18 Where Log Records Go 3-19

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Guarded Logging 3-20 Logging Handlers and Formatters 3-21 Logger Hierarchy 3-22 Logging Configuration 3-23 Application Servers and Logging 3-24 WebLogic Server Logging Bridge Handler 3-25 WebLogic Log Files 3-26 WebLogic Log File Format 3-27 WebLogic Logging Service Configuration 3-28 Quiz 3-29 Annotations 3-30 XML Based Deployment Data 3-31 Compiler Supported Annotations 3-32 Lifecycle Annotations 3-33 Custom Annotations 3-34 Annotation Elements 3-35 Annotation Placement 3-36 Annotation Retention 3-37 Annotations in Java EE 3-38 Quiz 3-39 Additional Resources 3-40 Summary 3-41 Practice 3-1 Overview: Adding a Logger to an application 3-42 Practice 3-2 Overview: Adding a JavaBeans Persistence Mechanism to the JavaFXMediaViewer Application 3-43 Practice 3-3 Overview: Logging to the WebLogic Server Log File 3-44 4 Web Component Model Objectives 4-2 Why Create Web Applications 4-3 Web Application Overview 4-4 Role of Web Components in a Java EE Application 4-5 MVC Architecture 4-6 MVC in a Java EE Web Application 4-7 HTTP Request-Response Model 4-8 GET and POST Requests 4-10 Content Type and the Response Header 4-11 Overview of Web Components 4-12 Comparison of Servlets and JSP Components 4-13 Servlet Example 4-14 JSP Component Example 4-16

Servlet and JSP Component Collaboration 4-17 Runtime Behavior of Servlets and JSP Components 4-18 JSF Facelet Example 4-19 JSP Expression Language (EL) 4-20 Web Context Root and Alias Mapping 4-21 Data Scopes 4-22 Cascading Style Sheets 4-23 Web Development Tools 4-24 Additional Resources 4-25 Quiz 4-26 Summary 4-30 Practice 4: Overview 4-31 5 Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology Objectives 5-2 JavaServer Faces (JSF) 5-3 JavaServer Faces: Benefits 5-4 Inversion of Control 5-5 JavaServer Faces 2.0: New Features 5-6 JSF Application Elements 5-7 JSF Hello World 5-8 JSF Forms 5-9 JSF Page Tags 5-10 JSF Tag Libraries 5-11 Tag Library Documentation 5-12 Managed Beans 5-13 Managed Bean Configuration 5-14 Managed Beans and Forms 5-15 An Example JSF Application 5-16 JSF Page: index.xhtml 5-17 GuessBean Managed Bean 5-18 JSF Deployment Descriptor 5-20 JSF Application Life Cycle Phases 5-21 An Initial JSF Page Request 5-22 JSF Postback Requests 5-23 JSF Conversion and Validation 5-24 Text and HTML Within Facelet Pages 5-25 Creating HyperLinks 5-26 Managed Bean Life Cycle and Scope 5-27 Managed Bean Dependency Injection 5-29 Unified Expression Language 5-30

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Using the Unified EL to Reference Managed Beans 5-31 JSF Page Navigation 5-32 ui:repeat Tag 5-33 <ui:repeat>: Example 5-34 Additional Resources 5-35 Quiz 5-36 Summary 5-40 Practice 5-1: Overview Creating a JSF Application 5-41 Practice 5-2: Overview Adding a media View Page 5-42 Practice 5-3: Overview Adding a settings View Page 5-43 6 Using AJAX and Composite Components with JSF Objectives 6-2 JSF 2.0 and AJAX 6-3 Using the <f:ajax> Tag 6-4 JSF Life Cycle and AJAX 6-5 Simple AJAX Example 6-6 JSF AJAX Attributes 6-7 execute and render Special Keywords 6-9 Where Do You Put the <f:ajax> Tag? 6-10 AJAX Field Validation 6-11 Using the JavaScript API for JSF 2.0 6-12 Using the JavaScript API 6-13 Composite Components 6-14 Composite Component Usage Contract 6-15 Composite Component Implementation 6-16 Using the Composite Component 6-17 Composite Components Are Flexible 6-18 Essential Composite Tags 6-19 Additional Resources 6-20 Quiz 6-21 Summary 6-24 Practice 6-1 Overview: Creating a JSF Composite Component 6-25 Practice 6-2 Overview: Adding AJAX to the settings View Page 6-26 Apache Trinidad JSF Component Library and Mobile Development Objectives 7-2 User-Agent Detection 7-3 HTML5 Video Support 7-4 <video> Tag 7-5 JSF Component Libraries 7-6

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Apache Trinidad 7-7 Configuring Trinidad 7-8 Creating a Facelet with Trinidad 7-9 Creating Forms with Trinidad 7-10 Form Layout 7-11 Using <tr:panelTabbed> 7-12 Trinidad Skinning 7-13 Available Skins 7-14 Creating Custom Skins 7-15 Mobile Web Development 7-16 Trinidad Mobile Support 7-17 Mobile Web Design 7-18 Mobile Viewports 7-19 Quiz 7-20 Summary 7-21 Practice 7-1 Overview: (Optional) Implementing HTML5 Video 7-22 Practice 7-2 Overview: Using the Trinidad Component Library 7-23 Practice 7-3 Overview: Creating Mobile Web Applications 7-24 8 Dependency Injection With CDI Objectives 8-2 Before Dependency Injection 8-3 Dependency Injection in Java EE 5 8-4 Other Forms of Dependency Injection 8-5 Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 8-6 Enabling CDI 8-7 Using CDI 8-8 Bean Scopes 8-9 Qualifiers 8-10 @Named Qualifier 8-13 Injecting Classes Without a no-arg Constructor 8-14 Producers 8-15 Alternatives 8-17 Enabling @Alternative Classes 8-18 @Alternative Producers 8-19 Additional CDI 8-20 Additional Resources 8-21 Quiz 8-22 Summary 8-23 Practice 8 Overview: Contexts and Dependency Injection 8-24

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Using JSF and Bean Validation Objectives 9-2 JSF Process Validation Details 9-3 Input Conversion 9-4 Validation 9-5 Validation and Conversion 9-7 Validation and Conversion Errors 9-8 Error Messages 9-11 Updated GuessNumberExample 9-12 Bean Validation 9-13 Bean Validation: Example 9-14 Bean Validation Messages 9-15 Default Bean Validations Constraints 9-16 Custom Bean Validation 9-18 Constraint Annotation 9-19 Constraint Implementation 9-20 Applying the ValidLicenseKey Annotation 9-22 Additional Resources 9-23 Quiz 9-24 Summary 9-28 Practice 9-1 Overview: Apply Built-in JSF and Bean Validation 9-29 Practice 9-2 Overview: Create a Custom Bean Validation Constraint 9-30

10 Developing Servlets Objectives 10-2 Basics of the Servlet API 10-3 Basic Servlet 10-4 Basic Servlet Result 10-6 Servlet Configuration 10-7 Deployment Descriptors 10-8 Deployment Descriptor: Example 10-9 Setting Response Headers 10-10 Creating the Response Body 10-11 Uploading Files 10-12 Server-side File Processing 10-13 The RequestDispatcher Interface 10-16 The RequestDispatcher Target and the Context Root 10-18 The forward and include Methods 10-19 Using the Session Management API 10-20 Session Binding 10-21

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Retrieving a Session Object 10-22 Additional Resources 10-23 Quiz 10-24 Summary 10-28 Practice 10-1: Overview Create a servlet to download media items 10-29 Practice 10-2: Overview Create a servlet to upload media items 10-30 11 Developing With JavaServer Pages Technology Objectives 11-2 JSP Technology as a Presentation Mechanism 11-3 Presentation Using JSP Pages Compared to Servlets 11-5 Worker Beans, JSTL, and Custom Tags 11-7 JSP Page Translation Procedure 11-8 Java Code Embedded in JSP Pages 11-9 Syntactic Forms of JSP Tags 11-10 JSP Technology Directives 11-11 JSP Directives 11-12 Declarations, Expressions, and Scriptlets 11-13 Declaration Scripting Elements 11-14 Expression Scripting Elements 11-15 Scriptlet Scripting Elements 11-16 JavaServer Pages Scopes 11-18 Using EL to Access Scoped Beans 11-19 Request-Scope Beans and Collecting Data from Servlets 11-20 The taglib Directive 11-21 The Expression Language (EL) 11-22 The JSTL Core Tag Library 11-23 JSTL Examples 11-24 Additional Resources 11-25 Quiz 11-26 Summary 11-29 Practice 11-1: Developing JSPs 11-30 Practice 11-2: Implementing JSP Footers and Dynamic Styling 11-31 12 EJB Component Model Objectives 12-2 EJB Component Types 12-3 Enterprise Application Tiers 12-4 Benefits of EJBs 12-5 Analysis of the Session EJB Component Model 12-6 EJB Lite 12-7

Embedded EJB Container 12-8 EJB Objects and Proxies 12-9 Local and Distributed Client Views 12-10 Using Annotations to Obtain an EJB Reference in a Managed Component 12-11 Comparison of Stateless and Stateful Behavior 12-12 Stateless Session Bean Cardinality 12-13 Stateful Session Bean Cardinality 12-14 Singleton Session Bean Characteristics 12-15 Creating Session Beans 12-16 Declaring a Local Session Bean 12-17 Declaring a Remote Session Bean 12-18 Requirements for a Session Bean Class 12-19 Life Cycle of a Stateless Session Bean 12-20 Life Cycle of a Stateful Session Bean 12-21 The SessionContext Object 12-22 Standard JNDI Names 12-23 Stand-alone Java SE Clients 12-24 Additional Resources 12-25 Quiz 12-26 Summary 12-29 Practice 12-1 Overview: Creating a Singleton Bean 12-30 13 The Java Persistence API Objectives 13-2 The Java Persistence API 13-3 Object-Relational Mapping 13-4 Normalized Data Mapping 13-5 Use of an Entity Component Across a Set of Database Tables 13-6 Entity Class Requirements 13-7 Creating an Entity 13-8 Entity Mapping 13-9 Primary Keys 13-10 Entity Component Primary Key Association 13-11 Changing Default Mapping 13-12 Persistent Fields Versus Persistent Properties 13-13 Persistence Data Types 13-15 Applying Bean Validation to Entities 13-16 Persistence Units 13-17 The persistence.xml file 13-18 The Persistence Context 13-19 The Entity Manager 13-20

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Entity Instance Management 13-21 Entity Instance Life Cycle and Entity Manager Methods 13-23 Entity Bean States 13-24 Entity Manager Methods 13-25 Managed Entities 13-26 JPA Queries 13-27 A Native Query: Example 13-28 Additional Resources 13-29 Quiz 13-30 Summary 13-33 Practice 13-1: Overview Implementing a JPA Application 13-34 Practice 13-2: Overview Creating a dynamic JPQL query 13-35 14 Implementing a Transaction Policy Objectives 14-2 Transaction Semantics 14-3 Atomicity 14-4 Locking and Isolation 14-6 Transaction Models 14-7 Comparison of Programmatic and Declarative Transactions 14-9 Programmatic Scoping as Opposed to Reusability 14-10 Using JTA to Scope Transactions Programmatically 14-11 Getting a Reference to the UserTransaction Interface 14-12 Using the begin,commit, and rollback Methods 14-13 Implementing a Container-Managed Transaction Policy 14-14 Container Interactions with the Transaction Management Infrastructure 14-15 How to Control the Containers Behavior Using Transaction Attributes 14 -17 Predicting the Effect of Transaction Scope on Application Performance 14-18 Transaction Scope and Entity Synchronization 14-19 Optimistic Locking and Versioning 14-20 Implementing Versioning 14-21 Pessimistic Locking 14-22 Effect of Exceptions on Transaction State 14-23 Using the EJBContext Object to Check and Control Transaction State 14-24 Additional Resources 14-25 Quiz 14-26 Summary 14-30 Practice 14-1: Overview Implement Optimistic Locking 14-31

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15 Web Service and Integration Technology Survey Objectives 15-2 N-Tier Architectural Model 15-3 Business and Resource Layers 15-4 The Integration Layer 15-5 The DAO Pattern 15-6 The Java Persistence API 15-7 The Java Messaging Service (JMS) API & MDBs 15-8 The JavaMail API 15-9 JNDI 15-10 Java EE Connector Architecture 15-11 Web Services 15-12 Web Services APIs 15-13 Transactions and Resources 15-15 Additional Resources 15-16 Summary 15-17 16 Implementing a Security Policy Objectives 16-2 Exploiting Container-Managed Security 16-3 Security Concepts 16-4 End-to-End Security Model 16-5 Container-Managed Security 16-6 Container-Managed Authentication 16-7 Authentication in the Web Tier 16-8 Web-Tier Authentication Challenge Methods 16-9 Basic Authentication Dialog Box 16-10 Authentication from the Web Tier to the EJB Tier 16-11 Authentication of Non-Web Clients 16-12 Interaction With the Security Infrastructure 16-13 User Roles and Responsibilities 16-14 Role-Based Java EE Security Model 16-15 Creating a Role-Based Security Policy 16-16 Role Mapping 16-17 Role-Based Authorization in the Web Tier 16-19 web.xml Security Constraints 16-20 Role-Based Authorization in the EJB Tier 16-21 EJB Tier Security Annotations 16-22 Using the Security API 16-23 Web-Tier Security API 16-24 EJB-Tier Security API 16-25

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CDI Security API 16-26 Configuring Authentication in the Web Tier Selecting Basic Authentication 16-28 HTTP Error Pages 16-29 Selecting Form Authentication 16-30

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Creating an HTML Login Page for FormBased Authentication Programmatic Logins 16-32 Security Exceptions 16-33 Additional Resources 16-34 Quiz 16-35 Summary 16-41 Practice 16-1 Overview: Using Declarative Security 16-42

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A Developing Java EE Applications Using Messaging Objectives A-2 Messaging System Participants A-3 Administered Objects A-4 Messaging Clients A-5 Messages A-6 Point-to-Point Messaging Architecture A-7 Publish/Subscribe Messaging Architecture A-8 Creating a Queue Message Producer A-9 Example Code for Message Producer A-12 Queue Message Browser A-15 Example Code for Queue Message Browser A-16 Evaluating the Capabilities and Limitations of EJB Components as Messaging Clients A-19 Additional Resources A-20 Summary A-21 Quiz A-22 Practice A: Overview A-25 B Developing Message-Driven Beans Objectives B-2 Introducing Message-Driven Beans B-3 Java EE Technology Client View of Message Driven Beans Life Cycle of a Message-Driven Bean B-5 Types of Message-Driven Beans B-6 Creating a JMS Message-Driven Bean B-7 Message-Driven Bean: Example B-9 B-4

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Callback Methods in a Bean Class Additional Resources B-12 Summary B-13 Quiz B-14 Practice B: Overview B-16

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