OCMJEA Study Books

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Section	Objective	Reference Book
Application Design Concepts and Principles	Explain the main advantages of an object-oriented approach to system design including the effect of encapsulation, inheritance, and use of interfaces on architectural characteristics.	Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson
	Describe how the principle of "separation of concerns" has been applied to the main system tiers of a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition application. Tiers include client (both GUI and web), web (web container), business (EJB container), integration, and resource tiers.
	Describe how the principle of "separation of concerns" has been applied to the layers of a Java EE application. Layers include application, virtual platform (component APIs), application infrastructure (containers), enterprise services (operating system and virtualization), compute and storage, and the networking infrastructure layers.
Common Architectures	Explain the advantages and disadvantages of two-tier architectures when examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability, availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security.	Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert and Peter Sommerlad
	Explain the advantages and disadvantages of three-tier architectures when examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability, availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security
	Explain the advantages and disadvantages of multi-tier architectures when examined under the following topics: scalability, maintainability, reliability, availability, extensibility, performance, manageability, and security.
	Explain the benefits and drawbacks of rich clients and browser-based clients as deployed in a typical Java EE application.
	Explain appropriate and inappropriate uses for web services in the Java EE platform	Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services by Robert Daigneau
Integration and Messaging	Explain possible approaches for communicating with an external system from a Java EE technology-based system given an outline description of those systems and outline the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.	Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services by Robert Daigneau
	Explain typical uses of web services and XML over HTTP as mechanisms to integrate distinct software components.
	Explain how JCA and JMS are used to integrate distinct software components as part of an overall Java EE application.
Business Tier Technologies	Explain and contrast uses for entity beans, entity classes, stateful and stateless session beans, and message-driven beans, and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each type.	Java EE 5 Tutorial by Eric Jendrock, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Carson, Ian Evans, Scott Fordin, Kim Haase
	Explain and contrast the following persistence strategies: container-managed persistence (CMP) BMP, JDO, JPA, ORM and using DAOs (Data Access Objects) and direct JDBC technology-based persistence under the following headings: ease of development, performance, scalability, extensibility, and security.
	Explain how Java EE supports the deployment of server-side components implemented as web services and the advantages and disadvantages of adopting such an approach.
	Explain the benefits of the EJB 3 development model over previous EJB generations for ease of development including how the EJB container simplifies EJB development.
Web Tier Technologies	Explain and contrast uses for entity beans, entity classes, stateful and stateless session beans, and message-driven beans, and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each type. State the benefits and drawbacks of adopting a web framework in designing a Java EE application	Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson
	Explain standard uses for JSP pages and servlets in a typical Java EE application.
	Explain standard uses for JavaServer Faces components in a typical Java EE application.
	Given a system requirements definition, explain and justify your rationale for choosing a web-centric or EJB-centric implementation to solve the requirements. Web-centric means that you are providing a solution that does not use EJB components. EJB-centric solution will require an application server that supports EJB components.
Applicability of Java EE Technology	Given a specified business problem, design a modular solution that solves the problem using Java EE.	Java EE 5 Tutorial by Eric Jendrock, Jennifer Ball, Debbie Carson, Ian Evans, Scott Fordin, Kim Haase
	Explain how the Java EE platform enables service oriented architecture (SOA) -based applications.
	Explain how you would design a Java EE application to repeatedly measure critical non-functional requirements and outline a standard process with specific strategies to refactor that application to improve on the results of the measurements.
Patterns	From a list, select the most appropriate pattern for a given scenario. Patterns are limited to those documented in the book - Alur, Crupi and Malks (2003). Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies 2nd Edition and named using the names given in that book.	Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi
	From a list, select the benefits and drawbacks of a specified Core J2EE pattern drawn from the book - Alur, Crupi and Malks (2003). Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies 2nd Edition.
	From a list, select the benefits and drawbacks of a pattern drawn from the book - Gamma, Erich; Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (1995). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.	Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
	From a list, select the most appropriate pattern for a given scenario. Patterns are limited to those documented in the book - Gamma, Erich; Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (1995). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software and are named using the names given in that book.
Security	Explain the client-side security model for the Java SE environment, including the Web Start and applet deployment modes.	Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE, Web Services, and Identity Management by Christopher Steel, Ramesh Nagappan, Ray Lai
	Given an architectural system specification, select appropriate locations for implementation of specified security features, and select suitable technologies for implementation of those features
	Identify and classify potential threats to a system and describe how a given architecture will address the threats.
	Describe the commonly used declarative and programmatic methods used to secure applications built on the Java EE platform, for example use of deployment descriptors and JAAS.