1Z0-861: Java EE 5 Business Component Developer Certified Professional Upgrade Exam

Section 1: EJB 3.0 Overview
Identify the uses, benefits, and characteristics of Enterprise JavaBeans technology, for version 3.0 of the EJB specification
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about EJB programming restrictions
Describe the packaging and deployment requirements for enterprise beans
Describe the purposes and uses of annotations and deployment descriptors, including how the two mechanisms interact, how overriding is handled, and how these mechanisms function at the class, method, and field levels

Section 2: General EJB 3.0 Enterprise Bean Knowledge
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the lifecycle of all 3.0 Enterprise Bean instances, including the use of the @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy callback methods.
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about interceptors, including implementing an interceptor class, the lifecycle of interceptor instances, @AroundInvoke methods, invocation order, exception handling, lifecycle callback methods, default and method level interceptors, and specifying interceptors in the deployment descriptor.
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about how enterprise beans declare dependencies on external resources using JNDI or dependency injection, including the general rules for using JNDI, annotations and/or deployment descriptors, EJB references, connection factories, resource environment entries, and persistence context and persistence unit references.
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about Timer Services, including the bean provider’s view and responsibilities, the TimerService, Timer and TimerHandle interfaces, and @Timeout callback methods.
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about EJB 3.0 / EJB 2.x interoperability, including how to adapt an EJB 3.0 bean for use with clients written to the EJB 2.x API and how to access beans written to the EJB 2.x API from beans written to the EJB 3.0 API

Section 3: EJB 3.0 Session Bean Component Contract & Lifecycle
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples that compare the purpose and use of Stateful and Stateless Session Beans
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about remote and local business interfaces for Session Beans
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the lifecycle of a Stateful Session Bean including the @PrePassivate and @PostActivate lifecycle callback methods and @Remove methods
Given a list of methods of a Stateful or Stateless Session Bean class, define which of the following operations can be performed from each of those methods: SessionContext interface methods, UserTransaction methods, access to the java:comp/env environment naming context, resource manager access, and other enterprise bean access.
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about implementing a session bean as a web service endpoint, including rules for writing a web service endpoint interface and use of the @WebService and @WebMethod annotations
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the client view of a session bean, including the client view of a session object’s life cycle, obtaining and using a session object, and session object identity

Section 4: EJB 3.0 Message-Driven Bean Component Contract
Develop code that implements a Message-Driven Bean Class
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the interface(s) and methods a JMS Message-Driven bean must implement, and the required metadata
Describe the use and behavior of a JMS message driven bean, including concurrency of message processing, message redelivery, and message acknowledgement

Section 5: Java Persistence API Entities
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the characteristics of Java Persistence entities
Develop code to create valid entity classes, including the use of fields and properties, admissible types, and embeddable classes
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about primary keys and entity identity, including the use of compound primary keys
Implement association relationships using persistence entities, including the following associations: bidirectional for @OneToOne, @ManyToOne, @OneToMany, and @ManyToMany; unidirectional for @OneToOne, @ManyToOne, @OneToMany, and @ManyToMany.
Given a set of requirements and entity classes choose and implement an appropriate object-relational mapping for association relationships
Given a set of requirements and entity classes, choose and implement an appropriate inheritance hierarchy strategy and/or an appropriate mapping strategy
Describe the use of annotations and XML mapping files, individually and in combination, for object-relational mapping

Section 6: Java Persistence Entity Operations
Describe how to manage entities, including using the EntityManager API and the cascade option
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about entity instance lifecycle, including the new, managed, detached, and removed states
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about Entity Listeners and Callback Methods, including: @PrePersist, @PostPersist, @PreRemove, @PostRemove, @PreUpdate, @PostUpdate, and @PostLoad, and when they are invoked
Identify correct and incorrect statements about concurrency, including how it is managed through the use of @Version attributes and optimistic locking

Section 7: Persistence Units and Persistence Contexts
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about JTA and resource-local entity managers
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about container-managed persistence contexts
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about application-managed persistence contexts
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about transaction management for persistence contexts, including persistence context propagation, the use of the EntityManager.joinTransaction() method, and the EntityTransaction API
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about persistence units, how persistence units are packaged, and the use of the persistence.xml file
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the effect of persistence exceptions on transactions and persistence contexts

Section 8: Java Persistence Query Language
Develop queries that use Java Persistence Query Language syntax for defining the domain of a query using JOIN clauses, IN, and prefetching
Use the WHERE clause to restrict query results using conditional expressions, including the use of literals, path expressions, named and positional parameters, logical operators, the following expressions (and their NOT options): BETWEEN, IN, LIKE, NULL, EMPTY, MEMBER [OF], EXISTS, ALL, ANY, SOME, and functional expressions
Develop Java Persistence Query Language statements that update a set of entities using UPDATE/SET and DELETE FROM
Declare and use named queries, dynamic queries, and SQL (native) queries

Section 9: Transactions
Identify corre ct and incorrect statements or examples about bean-managed transaction demarcation
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about container-managed transaction demarcation, and given a list of transaction behaviors, match them with the appropriate transaction attribute
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about transaction propagation semantics
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about specifying transaction information via annotations and/or deployment descriptors
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the use of the EJB API for transaction management, including getRollbackOnly, setRollbackOnly and the SessionSynchronization interfaces

Section 10: Exceptions
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about exception handling in EJB
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about application exceptions and system exceptions in session beans and message-driven beans, and defining a runtime exception as an application exception
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about the client’s view of exceptions received from an enterprise bean invocation
Given a particular method condition, identify the following: whether an exception will be thrown, the type of exception thrown, the container’s action, and the client’s view

Section 11: Security Management
From a list of responsibilities, identify which roles are responsible for which aspects of security: application assembler, bean provider, deployer, container provider, system administrator, or server provider
Identify correct and incorrect statements or examples about use of the isCallerInRole and getCallerPrincipal EJB programmatic security APIs
Given a security-related deployment descriptor tag or annotation, identify correct and incorrect statements and/or code related to that tag

Dit examen is onderdeel van de Oracle Certified Professional certificering.