Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming approach that provides the ability to achieve modularization for crosscutting concerns, i.e., logic that applies to many parts of the application, in a single place and to have that logic applied across the application automatically.

By using AOP, the developer can create highly maintainable and extensible modules and produce a code that is more readable and reusable.

AspectJ is the most popular AOP language/platform for Java and provides a powerful compile-time and load-time solution for building AOP-based logic and adding it to an application.

The course includes many examples and hands-on exercises by means of which the material is demonstrated and practiced.

Design patterns are a must for every developer. Design patterns help the developers write extensible and maintainable code.

Design patterns also provide the developers with common vocabulary for design and allow easy classification of conceptual problems.

The course will focus on the well known GoF patterns and their appliance in the Java language.

The Web Beans standard provides a unified component model for Java EE.

Generally speaking, it allows for EJBs to be used as JSF components.

Web Beans provides dependency injection between EJB, JSF, Servlets and regular Java Beans and defines new scopes like conversation.

Web Beans greatly simplifies the development of JEE web applications by making the connection between the different components easy and natural.

Continuous Integration (CI) is an important part of any Agile methodology because it can help developers discover their bugs sooner.

Every project can benefit from Continuous Integration which leads to greater productivity, early bug detection and better teamwork due to immediate discovery of integration bugs.

CruiseControl is a popular CI framework. It enables you to create an automated build system. CruiseControl is an open-source, easy to use and mature solution. It contains a lot of built-in plugins that provides you with Source Control Management integration, mail notifications, unit-tests and many more useful features.

Groovy is an Object Oriented and dynamic language based on the JVM.

Groovy has powerful language features (e.g., Closures, Builders, Categories) that are not available in Java.

Because of its seamless integration with Java, Groovy can provide powerful tools to any Java developer.

With the power of Groovy, developers can produce more readable and maintainable codes.

By now Test Driven Development (TDD) is a well known and appreciated practice exercised by many development teams around the globe.

Unlike what the name suggests, TDD is not a testing technique but a development technique that results in cleaner high quality code. Implementing effective and useful TDD is a complicated task that requires developers to have both discipline and familiarity with a set of test automation tools.

This course explains the TDD methodology, introduces a recommended set of open-source testing tools and includes hands-on exercises (about 50% of the course's duration) to practice the tools.

OSGi is a dynamic module system for Java. The OSGi Service Platform provides a standardized, component-oriented environment for distributed services.

The OSGi technology provides a service-oriented architecture that enables auto-discovery, easy deployment, loose coupling and manageable dependencies.

Organizations using the OSGi technology benefit from reduced development costs (due to out-of-box component services), easier manageability (because of dependencies framework) and more business opportunities (because of the large adoption of OSGi and its dynamic and reusable nature).

The course contains many examples and hands-on exercises, by means of which the material is demonstrated and practiced.

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing networked applications and exposing Web Services.

REST delivers simplicity and true interoperability and is an alternative to complex mechanism such as CORBA, RPC or SOAP-based Web Services and allows using simple HTTP to make calls between machines.

The course will explain the REST principles and show how to use the new Java standards for creating RESTful API for your products.