JAVA Web Application Development 

You Will Learn How To

• Build robust, data-driven web applications by integrating key components of Java EE.
• Create dynamic, session-managed, data-driven web applications with Java servlets.
• Build dynamic web page views with JSP.
• Implement the MVC design pattern for Java web applications.
• Use listeners to initialise web sessions and applications.
• Employ best practises for storing application data.
• Use database connection pools to reduce latency.
• Lock down a web application using container managed security.

Java Web Application Development Course Outline

Introduction and Overview

• Web application development

The requirements of a web application

• Components of an n-tier architecture
• Generating Content with Servlets
• Getting started with servlets

Integrating servlets into the web application architecture

• Configuring the servlet development environment
• Avoiding common servlet pitfalls
• Utilising the Java Servlet API

Servlet life cycle methods

• Accessing servlet environment variables
• Creating web-based forms for user input

Adding text fields and drop-down lists

• Retrieving form data in the servlet
• Accessing Databases with Servlets
• Harnessing Data Access Objects with Java Database Connectivity

Connecting to the database

• Resource Injection
• Submitting SQL statements
• Retrieving and processing data
• Formatting database results

Constructing an HTML table

• Latency Considerations
• Database Connection Pooling
• Maintaining State in Java Web Applications
• Writing cookies to personalise web content

Retrieving cookies from a client request

• Sending cookies to the client
• Circumventing cookie limitations
• Managing application state with sessions

Creating a unique session for each user

• Storing and retrieving Java objects within sessions
• Controlling a session’s life span
• Creating application and session event listeners
• Implementing a shopping cart
• Key components of Java EE for web development

Servlets

• JSP
• XML
• Creating JavaServer Pages (JSP)
• JSP fundamentals

Using JSP scriptlets, expressions and declarations

• Communicating with the client using built-in JSPserver objects
• Leveraging the JSP 2 Expression Language (EL)
• State management with JSP

Accessing cookies and sessions

• Storing common application data
• Designing JSP and Servlet Architectures
• Integrating JSP and JavaBeans
• Promoting object reuse
• Separating application logic from the presentation

Calling JSP from servlets

• Forwarding Java objects to JSP
• Using request, session, and application objects to store data
• Servlet and JSP design patterns
• Deploying Java Web Applications
• Managing configuration parameters with the deployment descriptor

Generating the WAR file

• Using the hot-deploy directory
• Developing custom tags

Creating custom tags with JSP 2 tag files

• Customising tag behaviour with attributes

Course Pre-Requisite

• Java Programming basic knowledge or past application development experience in any other programming language

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