Clustering is an advanced course focusing on the high availability services of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), 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.

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
• Familiar with JBoss AS microkernel and JMX
• Familiarity with TCP/IP, UDP, Multicasting

Course Outline

The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements of the JB439 JBoss Clustering Course.
Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Significant changes in course content will generally be available in posted outlines at least two months prior to being implemented in scheduled courses, to allow enrolled students adequate prep time. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.