• Java EE Overview
• Java EE Technologies
• Java EE Architecture
• MVC

Servlets and JSP with JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Session 2: Web Application Basics

• How the Web works, Thin Clients,  TCP/IP
• HTTP overview, Brief HTML review
• Overview of J2EE
• Web Applications - Structure and Contents
• Servlet Basics and Capabilities
• Basics of Writing a Servlet
• Labs:
  • Setup development environment and server; Create a simple web application
  • Create a Simple Servlet

Session 3: Servlet API

• HTML Forms Review
• HTTP Review: Request-response, headers, GET, POST
• Overview: How Servlets Work
  • Servlet Lifecycle: init(), service(), destroy()
  • API: Servlet, ServletConfig, ServletRequest, ServletResponse, GenericServlet,
  • Requests and Responses - Using ServletRequest and ServletResponse
  • HTTP Servlets: HttpServlet, HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse
  • Accessing Parameters
  • More About web.xml
• Labs:
  • Using Client Input, Retrieving parameters

Session 4: Additional Servlet Capabilities

• Working with HttpServletResponse
  • Status/Errors
  • Response Headers
  • MIME Types
• Initialization
  • Overview
  • Using ServletConfig and ServletContext
  • Init Parameters - Servlet and Web App
• Error Handling: Error Pages and Their Configuration
• Labs:
  • Using Model Classes, Generating Simple Output

Session 5: JavaServer Pages

• Basics and Overview
  • JSP architecture
  • JSP tags and JSP expressions
  • Fixed Template Data
  • Lifecycle of a JSP
• Model View Controller (MVC)
  • Overvie
  • Java EE Model 2 Architecture : Servlet Controllers, JSP Views, JavaBeans Glue
• Servlets as Controllers
  • Using RequestDispatcher
  • Forwarding and Including
• Data Sharing in a Web App
• Object scopes or "buckets"
• Using JavaBeans to Hold Data
• Using the Scope Objects - get/set/remove Attributes
• Request, application, session and page scope
• JSP Expression Language (EL) and Data Access
  • JSP EL Overview
  • JavaBeans and the EL
  • Predefined JSP EL implicit objects (pageContext, param, header, scope objects)
  • <jsp:useBean>, <jsp:getProperty>, <jsp:setProperty>
• jsp:include, jsp:forward, the page Directive
• Labs:
  • Create a Simple JSP Page
  • Put Data on a Scope and Forward to a JSP
  • Use the JSP Expression Language

Session 6: Using Custom Tags

• Custom tags overview
• Reducing JSP complexity
• Tag Libraries
  • Overview and TLD (Tag Library Descriptor)
  • taglib Directive - Using a Tag Library
• JSTL
  • Overview
  • c:out, c:forEach
  • c:url, c:param
• Labs:
  • Use c:forEach for Iteration
  • Working with Links and c:url

Session 7: HTTP Session Tracking

• HTTP Session Overview
  • HTTP as a stateless protocol
  • Hidden form fields
• Cookies
  • Overview and Servlet API
  • Using Cookies, Persistent and Session Cookies
  • Issues
• Sessions
  • Servlet/JSP Session Support, HttpSession
  • Using Sessions - Putting Data in, Retrieving Data From
  • How Sessions Work
• Labs:
  • Storing and Using Session Data

Session 8: More JSP Capabilities

• Error Pages
  • Error Pages and Exception Handling
  • The implicit exception Object
  • JSP 2.0+ Error Handling and errorData Object
  • Directives (page, include, others)
• JSPs as XML Documents
• Scriptlets - Overview and Usage
• Labs:
  • Using Error Pages
  • {optional} Using Scriptlets

Session 9: More JSTL and EL

• More About the JSTL
  • Core, Formatting, SQL, XML, Functions Libraries
  • Custom Tag Architecture and Tag Library Structure
  • c:if, c:choose, c:import
  • Formatting: formatNumber, formatDate, Resource Bundles
  • Using Common Tags
  • XML Action Example
• More About the JSP EL
  • Syntax, Identifiers, Literals, Operators
  • Implicit Objects
  • The pageContext in Detail
  • Type Coercion
  • String concatenation
• Using Common Tags
  • c:if, c:choose
  • c:set
  • fmt:formatDate, fmt:formatNumber
• Labs:
  • Using c:if, c:choose, c:when and c:otherwise to customize output
  • [Optional]: Using the Function Library
  • JSTL Format Tags

Session 10: Security

• J2EE Security Overview
• Role Based Security
• Declarative Security
• Web Authentication - Basic, Form-Based, Digest, HTTPS Client
• Using Basic Authentication
• Using Form-Based Authentication
• Programmatic Security - HttpServletRequest, Retrieving Roles
• Labs:
  • Securing a Web App, Setting Up and Using a Security Domain

Session 11: Additional Topics

• Design Issues
  • Dividing Responsibilities Between Servlets/JSP
  • Network Overhead
  • Scalaibility - Clustering, Serving Static Content
  • Other Guidelines - Using the Technology Well
• Custom Tags Using Tag Files
  • Overview and Writing Tag Files
  • Tag Attributes
  • The tag Directive
• Servlet Filter overview
  • Filtering examples, lifecycle, & filter chains
  • Filter API, Modifying a request, Modifying a response
• Java ServerFaces (JSF) Overview
  • Advanced MVC – JSF overview
  • JSF Components
  • Process Flow
  • Advantages and Disadvantages

JDBC

Session 12: JDBC Introduction

• Relational Database and JDBC Overview
  • Overview, Table Relationships, Web Based Data Access, JDBC Characteristics
• JDBC Architecture, JDBC API Overview
  • DriverManager, JDBC Drivers
  • Naming databases with JDBC URLs
• Connecting to a database
  • Connection interface, Establishing a connection
• DataBaseMetaData
• Handling Database Exceptions

Session 13: Data Access with JDBC

• DAO – Data Access Objects, O-R Mapping, Value Objects
• Processing Database Data
  • Executing statements, precompiled statements and stored procedures
  • Processing ResultSets,
  • Dealing with Null data
  • Updating, inserting, retrieving data
  • Controlling Transactions
• JDBC Driver Types
• Labs:
  • Lab series creating DAO using JBDC

Session 14: Advanced Topics

• Java Persistence API Overview
• Advanced JDBC Features
  • Batch Updates, Srollable Result Sets, Rowsets, User Defined Types, BLOBS, CLOBS

Database Integration and Additional Technologies

Session 15: Java EE Database Integration

• Environment Naming Context (ENC) and Resource Injection
• JNDI Overview and the ENC
• Connecting servlets to a database via DataSource
• Connection Pooling

Session 16: Additional Topics

• EJB
  • Overview of EJB
  • High-level EJB architecture
  • Roles within EJB
  • Client view of a session bean
  • JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface)
  • Remote and Home Interfaces
  • Writing an EJB client
• XML and Web Services Overview
  • XML and Web Services
  • JAX-WS Web Services Overview
• Design Considerations: Web Design, System Architecture, Scalability, Clustering

Labs

• Accessing a database from a servlet
• Other Optional Labs (Depends on Platform Support)