Overview of Java EE (Enterprise Edition)

• Overview: Definitions, MVC Design Pattern, Server Products
• Platform Servers: Containers, Client Technologies
• API Services: Servlet, JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, JTA, JMS, JAXP, JCA, JAAS
• Web Application Processing Cycle
• Deployment Objects: JAR/WAR/EAR
• Server Component Directory Structure, XML Descriptors
• Development Roles
• Sample Apps

Developing JavaServer Pages (JSP)

• Overview: User Interface Forms, Actions, GET vs POST Processing
• JSP Syntax: <% Tags, Scriptlets and Expressions, Implicit Objects request/response, Methods
• Real vs. Virtual Server Paths
• Using Java Component Classes, JSP Directives, Importing Packages, Declaring Custom Fields/Methods
• JSP and App Error Handling

Developing Servlets

• Overview: User Interface Forms
• Servlet Class Architecture, Life Cycle
• Request/Response Objects
• Servlet Mapping and web.xml Deployment Descriptor
• Servlet Coding
• Life Cycle Methods, Instance Fields and Threading
• Servlet and App Error Handling, Logging/Console Messages

Servlet Collaboration and MVC Design Pattern

• Overview: Model 1 vs 2 MVC Patterns, Servlet/JSP/JavaBeans Collaboration
• Forwarding Requests, Data Attributes, RequestDispatcher Code, Redirecting Responses;
• Including JSP/Servlet Response Output, Compile vs Request Time Include
• Context and Servlet Parameters and web.xml
• Custom Error Response Pages

Maintaining State with Sessions and Cookies

• Overview: Stateless HTTP
• AppServer HTTP Sessions, Attributes, Methods, Sharing/Threading Issues, URL Encoding vs Cookies
• Cookie Overview: Formats, Features
• Creating Cookies, Specifying Expiration/Path/Domain, Retrieve/Send Methods
• URL ReWriting and Hidden Fields Alternatives

JSP Tags and JavaBeans

• Overview: JavaBean Design Pattern
• JSP Action Tags, XML Syntax, useBean Tag
• Get/Set Property Tags, Request Parameters, Conversion to/from String

JSP Expression Language (EL)

• Overview: EL Dis/Advantages
• Coding EL, DotOperator, Scoping Access, [] Operator and List/Map Coding
• Implicit EL Objects, Request/Context Parms, Headers, Cookies
• EL Arithmetic/Comparison Operators
• Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

Server-Side Database Processing

• Overview/Review JDBC Drivers, Connections, ResultSets
• Connection Pooling
• AppServer Administered Objects, DataSources and JNDI

Restricting Access and Authentication (JAAS)

• Overview: Authentication and Authorization, Programmatic vs Container-Managed
• Authentication Types
• Security Role and Constraints in web/context.xml
• AppServer Support, Realms

Essential HTML Skills (optional or self-study)

• HTML Document Structure Tags
• Common Tags, Headings, Paragraphs, Formatting
• Coding Anchor Link Tags, Attributes
• Coding Table Tags, Rows, Columns, Formatting
• Including Images
• Styles
• Coding Form Tags, Action and Method Attributes
• Forms: Text Input, Buttons, Checkbox/Radio Buttons, Combo/List Selectors
• Styles

Using the Tomcat Application Server (optional or self-study)

• Install Directory Structure, Deployment Directories, EnvironVars
• Start/Stop AppServer, server/context.xml

Using Custom JSP Tags (optional)

• Overview, taglib Directive, Tag Library Descriptors (TLD)
• Custom Tag Coding w/out Content Body
• Handling Tag Attributes
• Iteration
• Using Scripting Variables/Objects, TEI Class
• Body/TagSupport Fields/Methods, PageContext and BodyContent Fields/Methods

Coding Filters and Listeners (optional)

• Filter Overview: Benefits, Usage
• Coding Filters, Life Cycle Methods, FilterConfig Object, Chaining, XML Configuration
• Request/Response Processing, Req/Resp Wrappers, Init Parameters
• Listener Overview, Usage
• Coding Listeners, ServletContextListener, Interface Methods, XML Registration Tags
• Other Listeners, HttpSession ad ServletRequest, Interface Methods, Event Objects