Java EE Introduction

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

Servlets and JSP with the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

• Web Application Basics
  • How the Web works, Thin Clients, TCP/IP
  • HTTP overview, Brief HTML review
  • Overview of Java EE, servlets & Web applications.
  • Servlet Basics
• Servlet API
  • HTML Forms
  • HTTP: Request-response, headers, GET, POST
  • Overview: How Servlets Work
    • Servlet Lifecycle: init(), service(), destroy()
    • Requests and responses
  • Core Servlet API: GenericServlet, ServletRequest, and ServletResponse
  • HTTP Servlets: HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse and HttpServlet
  • Accessing Parameters
• Additional Servlet Capabilities
  • HTTP headers and MIME types
  • RequestDispatcher: Including and forwarding
  • Sharing data with the request object attributes
  • Sharing data with ServletContext attributes
  • Error Handling
• JavaServer Pages
  • Basics and Overview
    • JSP architecture
    • JSP tags and JSP expressions
    • Fixed Template Data
    • Lifecycle of a JSP
  • Model View Controller (MVC)
    • Model 1/Model 2 Architecture
  • Data Sharing among servlets & JSP
    • Object scopes or “buckets”
    • Request, application, session and page scope
    • Predefined JSP implicit objects (request, session, application, page)
    • ‹jsp:useBean›
    • ‹jsp:getProperty›, ‹jsp:setProperty›
    • ‹jsp:include›, ‹jsp:forward›
• Using Custom Tags
  • Custom tags overview
  • Reducing JSP complexity
  • Tag Libraries
    • Tag Library Descriptor (TLD)
    • Loading a tag library in a web app
  • The JSTL
  • JSP Expression Language (EL)
  • Using custom tags
    • The c:url, c:param, c:forEach, c:out tags
• More JSP Capabilities and Session Management
  • HTTP as a stateless protocol
  • Hidden form fields
  • Cookies: Overview, API, Using cookies
  • Session overview: Cookies and session tracking
  • HttpSession
    • Putting data into a session object
    • Retrieving data from a session object
  • Using session data in servlets and JSPs
  • Additional JSP Capabilities
    • Exception handling and error pages
    • Directives (page, include, others)
  • Import declarations
  • Multithreading considerations and data safety
    • SingleThreadModel interface
• Additional JSP Capabilities
  • JSP Directives
  • JSP Error Pages
  • JSP and Java
    • Declarations, Scriptlet overview, Scriptlet syntax
• More JSTL
  • Overview of JSTL libraries
  • The JSTL Expression Language
    • Expressions, Type Coercion, Operators, String concatenation, Implicit Objects
  • The Core JSTL Library
    • General Purpose: c:out, c:set, c:catch
    • Conditional: c:if, c:choose,
  • Overview of other capabilities
• Additional Topics
  • Servlet Filter overview
    • Filtering examples, lifecycle, & filter chains
    • Filter API, Modifying a request, Modifying a response

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
• Data Access
  • 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
  • DataSource
    • Java EE and DataSource, Using JNDI
  • Connection Pooling
    • Overview, Usage, Advantages

Component Integration

• Database Integration
  • Web Architecture choices
  • Connecting servlets to a database via DataSource
• Other Technologies
  • XML and Web Services
  • JMS – Java Message Service
• Labs
  • Accessing a database from a servlet
  • Accessing an EJB from a servlet