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Java EE Foundations

10 courses
32 hours
Skill IQ

The Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is a Java platform built on top of the Java Standard Edition (Java SE). It provides a Runtime environment and an API. Java EE is the popular platform if you wish to build large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, and reliable network applications. As part of the Java ecosystem, Java EE comes with additional development tools, deployment technologies, and class libraries. This learning path will start you on your journey to developing applications with Java EE.

Courses in this path

Beginner

In this section, you will explore Java EE, how it fits into the Java software development landscape, and how you could use it to build your own large-scale applications

Java EE 7: The Big Picture

by Antonio Goncalves
1h 13m
(452)

Java Web Fundamentals

by Kevin Jones
3h 21m
(779)

Java: Creating a Basic Web App (Interactive)

by Sarah Holderness
1h 18m

Java EE 7: Getting Started

by Antonio Goncalves
4h 59m
(152)

Intermediate

Now that you have a good grasp of what Java EE enables you to do, it’s time to move to the next step. You will get up close and personal with the design of Java EE applications, JPA, Bean Validation, and dependency injection with the courses in this section.

Java EE 7 Fundamentals

by Antonio Goncalves
5h 25m
(165)

Java Persistence API 2.2

by Antonio Goncalves
4h 15m
(536)

Context and Dependency Injection (CDI 1.1)

by Antonio Goncalves
3h 44m
(167)

Bean Validation 1.1

by Antonio Goncalves
2h 30m
(124)

Advanced

Go further with Java EE by learning how to build RESTful web services and make use of the Java Messaging System (JMS) with the courses in this section

Building Asynchronous RESTful Services With Jersey

by Paul O'Fallon
3h 11m
(106)

Practical Enterprise JMS Playbook

by Grant Little
1h 38m
(30)

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What you will learn

Java EE’s place and purpose
Java EE Fundamentals
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Context and Dependency Injection (CDI)
Enterprise JavaBeans
Bean Validation
RESTful Services
Servlets
Asynchronous RESTful Services
Jersey

Experience

It is recommended that you have basic Java knowledge.

Learn with the best

Antonio Goncalves

Antonio is a senior software architect living in Paris. He started working in IT in 1992. Initially focused in C and C++ development, he switched to Java in the late 1990s. Antonio's career has taken him to different countries and companies where he now works as an independent Java EE consultant. As a former BEA consultant, he has great expertise in application servers such as Weblogic, JBoss and GlassFish. He is particularly fond of Open Source and is a member of the OOSGTP (Open Source Get Tog... more

Kevin Jones

A long time ago in a university far, far away Kevin fell in love with programming. Initially on the university's DEC20 computer doing BASIC and Pascal and a little bit of Fortran. His first job had him writing batch PL/1 on an IBM mainframe where he also discovered the arcane delights of JCL. He soon realized the multiuser systems were not for him after discovering the delights of dBase IV on IBM PCs. From here it was all downhill as he became addicted to C and the Windows API. Just missing out ... moreon coding for Windows 1, he did code for the other 16 bit versions of Windows, 2 and 3, including the various network-ready versions. He still remembers the awkwardness of having to carry an IBM Token Ring MAU with him wherever he went. After trying to pretend that Windows and C were really object oriented he decided that it would be better to learn C++. It was around this point that he realized that as well as writing code for a living he could be paid for telling people how to write code for a living. He taught Windows, MFC and C++ for a UK training company before his spirit was broken on the back of the OLE support in MFC when he finally stepped away from the nightmare of unmanaged code to the nirvana of the managed runtime called Java. It was at this time that he spoke at several JavaOne conferences usually on the subject of Servlets, JavaServer Pages and tag libraries. After buying the Sun employees copious amounts of Apple Martini Kevin was invited onto the expert groups for the Servlet and JSP specifications. Oh, how he laughed when .Net appeared and the same arguments raged about non-deterministic destruction and garbage collection that were now so old hat in the Java world. He finally got his hands dirty in C# and .Net about eight years ago, again working in the web tier and hating every minute of the using the monstrosity that was and is ASP.Net Web Forms. It wasn't until MVC appeared that he finally felt he had come home to Microsoft. Now of course MVC is so last year and Kevin is focusing more and more on rich clients using JavaScript and tools such as Knockout and AngularJS. He believes that JavaScript is the best thing since, well, JavaScript. He still retains his passion for developing and teaching; spending about a quarter of the year doing the latter and most of the time doing the former. When not stuck in front of a computer you can find him: with his nose in a book, a good one preferably, but almost any book would do; watching a film; walking; running; or annoying his wife by watching sports on television.

Sarah Holderness

Sarah just finished her PhD in Computer Science and in that process found two loves: inventing things and teaching. Working at Pluralsight allows her to do what she loves and work with some amazing people. When she's not teaching she's outside, enjoying the Florida sunshine with her family.

Paul O'Fallon

Paul has more than 28 years experience in the Information Technology industry spanning academic, start-up and enterprise environments. As Associate Vice President, Architecture at Cox Automotive, he currently leads a team of architects providing strategic direction and implementation guidance to the organization. As a Pluralsight course author, Paul has delivered training across a broad spectrum of technologies, including node.js, Apache Cassandra and Java API development.

Grant Little

Grant has been working in the IT industry for over 15 years after qualifying with a Master in Engineering degree in 1999. His specialties primarily lie in designing and working with high transaction, real time, scalable, and distributed enterprise grade applications. He has worked in various companies including his own consultancy and is currently working with a large financial institution in the share trading space. He has a keen interest in Agile approaches and is a qualified scrum master. Gra... more

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