JB439 - JBoss Clustering

  • Price (excl. VAT): 2860 EUR   2080 GBP
  • Training Units: 11
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  • Duration: 4 days
  • First day: 09:30 - 17:00
  • All other days: 09:00 - 17:00

Clustering is an advanced course focusing on the high availability services of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JEAP), including JGroups, JBoss Cache, load balancing and more.

Course Description


Clustering is a 4-day training focusing on the high availability services of JBoss Enterprise Middleware products (such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform). You will learn how JBoss Application Server leverages JGroups and JBoss Cache for replication and fail-over, how to configure, tune and implement JGroups protocol stacks, how to leverage JBoss Cache in your own middleware applications and how to use and configure mod_jk for HTTP load balancing. We will also cover in some detail JBoss Application Server high availability services such as HA-JNDI and HA-singleton.

What you will learn:
 Check out the complete course outline.


Track:

 Part of The JBoss Enterprise Framework Platform curriculum, which includes:
Prerequisites:

 Completion of the JBoss for Advanced J2EE Developers course is strongly recommended before taking this course. It is also strongly recommended that the student has at minimum 18 months of practical development experience using J2EE and other Java middleware technologies, and it is suggested that the student have some practical experience with JBoss Application Server. Solid Java programming experience (minimum 3 years) is required and a strong understanding of basic TCP/IP topics is necessary.

The student must have the following skills:

  • JTA, Transactions, Java concurrency, EJB 2.1, JMS, reliable messaging technologies
  • Previous experience with Apache httpd and some exposure to mod_jk and/or mod_proxy
  • Familiarity with JBoss AS microkernel and JMX
  • Familiarity with TCP/IP, UDP, Multicasting

Hardware Requirements

 Computer with the following configuration:
  1. A minimum of 1GHz CPU with 1 GB of RAM. A 2 GHz CPU with 2 GB RAM is recommended for IDE users
  2. Operating systems: Linux or Windows XP. Windows 95/98/2000 is  not supported. Windows Vista could work but not supported yet
  3. 40 GB hard disk space (for product and lab installs)
  4. CD/DVD player
  5. Video card capable of 1024 x 768 resolution of better
  6. Optional: Your favorite IDE (Integrated Development Environment) loaded. The instructor will support a command prompt (shell) environment. If an IDE is used, student is responsible for its proper configuration for the labs.
  7. JDK 1.5
  8. Additional JEMS components, if required, will be provided by the instructor.