Web Component Development With Servlet and JSP Technologies (SL-314)

Duration: 14 Weeks (Theory on Monday 6.00 – 9.00 pm & Practical Sessions on Wednesday 6.00 – 9.00 pm)

Course Fees: Theory Classes £700.00 + Practical Sessions £500 = £1200.00

JavaServer Pages (JSP) and servlets are the key web tier technologies defined in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform). The Web Component Development With Servlet and JSP Technologies course provides experienced Java developers a way to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to quickly build web applications from JSP and servlet technologies using the Tomcat web container and the Struts framework. Students are exposed to the current methods for analyzing, designing, developing, and deploying web applications with Java technologies. Real-world lab exercises provide students with experience in constructing and deploying the small to medium scale web applications found in intranet and low-volume commercial sites.

This course also is an ideal method of preparing for the revised Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) for J2EE 1.4 certification examination. However, an SCWCD candidate should also spend six months building real-world web applications using the JSP and servlet technologies before taking the exam.

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