Web Component Development with Servlets & JSPs, Java EE 6

Course details

• Introduction to Java Servlets
• Describe web applications, CGI, and the role of Java
• Describe benefits of Java servlet technology
• Create a simple Java Servlet
• Define three-tier architecture
• Define Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture
• Introduction to Java Server Pages
• Describe why Servlets are not the whole solution
• Describe essentials of JSPs
• Understand the fundamentals and reasons for MVC architecture
• Implementing an MVC Design
• Code a controller using a servlet
• Code a view using a JSP
• Forward control from a servlet to a JSP
• Understand fundamentals of EL
• Implement a simple MVC system
• The servlet's environment
• Understand more details of the HTTP protocol
• Understand fundamentals of HTML forms
• Understand fundamentals of the HttpServlet and related APIs
• Write code that manages client sessions and cookies
• Container facilities for servlets and JSPs
• Understand the purpose and structure of deployment descriptors
• Control context root and servlet mapping
• Create and use context and init parameters
• Use annotations to configure servlets
• More view facilities
• Understand the four data scopes
• Understand and use EL dot and array access operators with Java Beans, arrays, and collections
• Understand and use EL implicit objects
• Create and use arithmetic expressions in EL
• Identify the need for iteration and selection in the view, and use JSTL tags to address those needs 
• Developing JSP pages
• Understand the origins, benefits, and weaknesses of JSPs
• Describe JSP technology, the conversion of JSPs to servlets, and the lifecycle of JSPs
• Understand JSP scripting elements, declarations and directives
• Use JSP implicit variables
• Understand and use jsp: tags
• Developing JSP pages using custom tags
• Relate the JSTL to common job roles in web application development and understand the use of tags in JSP development
• Recognize correct syntax for tags
• Configure a JSP to use tags from the JSTL
• Write JSP code using several standard tags
• List capabilities of JSTL tags
• More Controller facilities
• Understand the servlet lifecycle
• Describe and use more advanced elements of the servlet APIs
• Create filters and use them in web applications
• More options for the Model 
• Understand the roles of JDBC and JPA
• Understand the many elements that make up the model
• Understand fundamentals of connecting to a database using JDBC or JPA
• Asynchronous web applications
• Understand the interactions that are essential to asynchronous web pages
• Understand the role of AJAX-style client side programming
• Implement asynchronous servlets using the facilities of Java EE 6
• Web application security
• Understand the role of the container in security
• Describe and implement four authentication models
• Force the use of encryption between a web application and the client browser
• Understand the role of JAAS in pluggable/extensible authentication for web applications