SL-425 Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications

Module 1 - Introducing Fundamental Architectural Concepts

• Justify the need for architecture
• Describe the architectural function
• Describe five primary concerns of architecture

Module 2 - Examining System Architecture Development Heuristics and Guidelines

• Identify key risk factors in distributed enterprise systems
• Describe essentials of object-oriented design
• Describe guidelines for effective network communication
• Justify the use of transactions to control shared resources
• Describe controlling costs through concept reuse
• Explain the basic characteristics of Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) architecture

Module 3 - Describing the Software Development Process

• Define the purpose of a development methodology
• Describe best practices of development methodologies
• Describe workflows and the four key phases of an iterative and incremental development process
• Define iterative process outputs
• Describe how to increase the probability of project success

Module 4 - Differentiating Local Object-Oriented Computing and Distributed Object Computing

• Examine the characteristics of data transfer in object-oriented computing
• Examine the characteristics of data transfer in distributed computing
• Compare and contrast distributed, object-based computing and object-oriented computing
• Analyze the impact of transactions in a distributed computing environment
• Analyze the impact of security implementation in a distributed computing environment

Module 5 - Optimizing Inside the Tier

• Plan system capacity to support required load
• Plan scalability to support anticipated growth
• Specify service providers to support maintenance goals

Module 6 - Optimizing Tier-to-Tier Communication

• Create a network model for an application
• Construct a data and call model to efficiently submit service requests and receive responses
• Create a transaction model for the application
• Create a security model for the application

Module 7 - Analyzing Quality-of-Service Requirements

• Evaluate the effects of dimensions on systemic qualities
• Prioritize quality-of-service requirements
• Inspect quality-of-service requirements for trade-off opportunities

Module 8 - Building a Prototype

• Create system prototypes that can potentially fulfill required architectural goals
• Assess the prototypes for fulfillment of required architectural goals

Module 9 - Describing J2EE Technology Servers

• Describe various server types
• Review enterprise information systems
• Explain the issues relating to the selection of application servers
• Describe deployment best practices, guidelines, and patterns

Module 10 - Describing J2EE Technologies

• Describe the J2EE technology web-tier components
• Describe the J2EE technology business-tier components
• Describe J2EE technology connectors

Module 11 - Evaluating the J2EE Technology Choice

• Design for long-term application state
• Manage client session state
• Enable business process and workflow control
• Enable presentation process and workflow control
• Manage presentation layout
• Design for asynchronous communication

Module 12 - Analyzing the Software Requirements

• Describe the software development process in terms of model transformations

• Gather requirements to define the business problem

• Create the domain model

Module 13 - Creating the Software Design

• Explain the purpose and elements of a robustness analysis and the design model

• Use robustness analysis to create a design model for a use case

• Generate a sequence diagram view of the design model

Module 14 - Creating the Software Architecture

• Describe the architecture model

• Decompose the system into components

• Arrange components into effective topologies

• Create deployment diagrams to document the architecture model

• Evaluate the architecture model

Module 15 - Choosing J2EE Technology Patterns

• Review relevant pattern fundamentals

• Recognize circumstances that suggest the use of J2EE technology patterns to assist in communications

• Recognize circumstances that suggest the use of J2EE technology patterns to assist in flexibility