In this 5-day JSP and Servlets course, you will be exposed to the current methods for analysing, designing, developing and deploying web applications with java technologies.

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)

Developing a View Component

• Design a view component
• Describe the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Describe the web container behaviour
• Develop a view servlet
• Configure and deploy a servlet

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

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

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

Designing the Business Tier

• Describe the Analysis model
• Design entity components
• Design service components

Developing Web Applications Using Struts

• Design a web application using the Struts MVC framework
• Develop a Struts action class
• Configure the Struts action mappings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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