Introduction to J2EE

Welcome!

Introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition

Presented by Communication & Collaboration Technologies Division of the Chief Information Officer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Main Topics

Introduction
The Goal The Problem The Solution

What is J2EE? The J2EE Framework

Case Studies / Examples

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Introduction

Enterprises today need to extend their reach, reduce their costs, and lower their response times
Simplified Guide to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Introduction to J2EE IT must provide:

High quality services
Highly Available Secure Scalable

Introduction

Powerful services
Useful Flexible Extensible

Affordable

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The Problem

Difficult Tasks!
Complex software is expensive to:

produce purchase support maintain replace

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The Problem

Why not delegate components to different departments?

Departmental solutions are: Limited in scope
Difficult to be aware of enterprisewide requirements and initiatives

Difficult to leverage
Diverse interoperabilty standards

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Cost and complexity

The Solution

Solution: Leverage reusable software components

Limited scope and impact

Solution: Provide interfaces that enable enterprise-wide application development

Diverse standards
Solution: Utilize existing standards and software components

Strength: Leveraged departmental core compentencies

Strongly defined roles and software interfaces allow maximum collaboration

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What is J2EE?

What is Java 2 Enterprise Edition? "The Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition reduces the cost and complexity of developing ... multi-tier services, resulting in services that can be rapidly deployed and easily enhanced
Simplified Guide to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Introduction to J2EE J2EE Provides:

What is J2EE?

Enabling technology
Standards based application model A common architecture that provides

key common functionality:

Security Session Management Scalability

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What is J2EE?

What does "multi-tier" mean?

Applications architecture Partitioning of application logic

Improves maintainability
Simplifies software upgrades and management

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What is J2EE?

What does "multi-tier" mean?

Enables increased aggregate functionality Reduces component maintenance cost

Separation of workload to improve

scalability and reliability Strong separation prevents

vendor lock-in

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Some History

Two tier application ("thin client")

client

server

Easy to upgrade client Expensive to scale and to add functionality

*Business Logic

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Some History

Two tier application ("client/server")

client

server

Strong scalability Poor upgradability and difficult management

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Today

Three tier application

client

app server

server

Thin clients make easy upgrades Centralized application server management is easier to manage Model allows for horizontal scalability
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Today

Three tier application

client

app server

server

Thin clients make easy upgrades Centralized application server management is easier to manage Model allows for horizontal scalability
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Today

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Introduction to J2EE N-tier application

Today

View application server as a data store Leverage data abstraction

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N-Tier Application

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N-Tier Application

Banner

LDAP

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N-Tier Application

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N-Tier Application

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N-Tier Application

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N-Tier Complexity

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Business Logic

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Business Logic

data

O U T P U T

P R O C E S S

I N P U T

data

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N-Tier Complexity

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N-Tier Complexity

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N-Tier Complexity

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N-Tier Complexity

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N-Tier Complexity

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N-Tier Complexity

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J2EE

Servlets
JSP/XML/XSLT

Session Beans

Entity Beans

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J2EE

Servlets
JSP/XML/XSLT

Session Beans

Entity Beans

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Example: The Kiosk

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Example: The Kiosk

Servlets
JSP/XML/XSLT

Session Beans

Entity Beans

article

client view

get article
restore

category

admin view
utility

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Clones

http://j2ee.rpi.edu/helpdesk

http://j2ee.rpi.edu/kiosk

http://www.va.rpi.edu

http://www.eng.rpi.edu/frame_news.html

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The J2EE Framework

Java Technologies

External Application

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