Course Content

Module 1 - Introduction to Web Application Technologies

· Describe Internet services

· Describe the World Wide Web

· Distinguish between web applications and web sites

· Describe Java servlet technology and list three benefits of this technology compared to traditional Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting

· Describe JavaServer Pages technology and list three benefits of JSP pages technology over rival template page technologies

· Describe the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform)

Module 2 - Developing a View Component

· Design a view component

· Describe the Hypertext Transfer Protocol

· Describe the web container behavior

· Develop a view servlet

· Configure and deploy a servlet

Module 3 - Developing a Controller Component

· Design a controller component

· Create an HTML form

· Describe how HTML form data is sent in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request

· Develop a controller servlet

· Dispatch from a controller servlet to a view servlet

Module 4 - Developing Dynamic Forms

· Describe the servlet life cycle

· Customize a servlet with initialization parameters

· Explain error reporting within the web form

· Repopulating the web form

Module 5 - Sharing Application Resources Using the Servlet Context

· Describe the purpose and features of the servlet context

· Develop a servlet context listener to initialize a shared application resource

Module 6 - Designing the Business Tier

· Describe the Analysis model

· Design entity components

· Design service components

Module 7 - Developing Web Applications Using Struts

· Design a web application using the Struts MVC framework

· Develop a Struts action class

· Configure the Struts action mappings

Module 8 - Developing Web Applications Using Session Management

Describe the purpose of session management

Design a web application that uses session management

Develop servlets using session management

Describe the cookies implementation of session management

Describe the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)-rewriting implementation of session management

Module 9 - Using Filters in Web Applications

· Describe the web container request cycle

· Describe the Filter API

· Develop a filter class

· Configure a filter in the web.xml file

Module 10 - Integrating Web Applications With Databases

· Understand what a database management system (DBMS) does

· Design a web application to integrate with a DBMS

· Configuring a DataSource and Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) API

Module 11 - Developing JSP Pages

· Describe JSP technology

· Write JSP code using scripting elements

· Write JSP code using the page directive

· Write JSP code using standard tags

· Write JSP code using the Expression Language (EL)

· Configure the JSP environment in the web.xml file

Module 12 - Developing JSP Pages Using Custom Tags

· Understand the job roles involved in web application development

· Understand the rationale in using custom tags

· Develop a JSP page using an existing custom tag library

Module 13 - Developing Web Applications Using Struts Action Forms

· Describe the components in a Struts application

· Develop an ActionForm class

· Develop a JSP page for a View form

· Configure the View forms

Module 14 - Building Reusable Web Presentation Components

· Describe how to build web page layouts from reusable presentation components

· Include JSP segments

· Develop layouts using the Struts Tiles framework