This course covers advanced design techniques and architectural patterns in the application of Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies for the development and implementation of enterprise-class applications. The course also covers advanced topics in Servlet Authentication, XML and XSLT integration with JSP, Internationalization and template-based development.

Objectives

This course aims to teach a set of advanced skills necessary to implement extensible, maintainable, secure, robust and scalable enterprise applications using JSP and Servlets. On completion, attendees will be able to:

• Design and implement advanced custom tags using JSP
• Design JSP/Servlet based systems using the Model 2 Framework
• Integrate XML and XSLT technologies with JSP to generate highly customized web pages
• Control the access to secure web recources using the authentication and authorization techniques
• Internationalize your web pages to enable a locale-specific customized view

This course is designed for developers who already have some experience in Java, Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages. They should also understand JavaBeans. Knowledge of XML is preferred, but not required.

• Architects
• Designers
• Consultants
• Developers

• Java
• JavaBeans
• Java Servlets and JSP

Duration 3 days

Course Outline

Advanced JSP Custom Tags

• Issues in concurrency and threads
• Tags with attributes
• Error handling
• Iteration
• Using JavaBeans with JSP
• Specifying scripting variables
• Generating JavaScript
• Nesting Tags

Advanced Java Servlet Architecture

• Concepts in Web Framework Design
• Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern
• Introduction to Model 2 Framework
• Action Interfaces and Action Handlers
• Action Factory
• Action Routers

Event Handling

• Event Handling in JSP and Servlets
• Handling sensitive form resubmissions

Internationalization

• Design strategies
• Locales, Charsets and Unicode
• List and Property Resource Bundles
• Formatting locale-sensitive information
• Detecting locales from browser language preferences
• Using custom tags to implement internationalized web pages

Security

• Servlet Authentication
  • Principals and Roles
  • Declarative Authentication
  • Portability
  • Authentication Types
• Basic Authentication
• Digest Authentication
• Form-Based Authentication
• SSL and Client Certificate Authentication
• Customizing Authentication
• Programmatic Authentication

XML and JSP

• Generating XML
• Generating JavaBeans from XML
• XML Parsers
  • Simple API for XML (SAX)
  • SAX Custom Tags
  • Document Object Model (DOM)
  • DOM Custom Tags
• XML Transformation
  • Using JSP and XSLT
  • Using XSLT with a custom tag to produce HTML
  • Using XSLT with a custom tag to produce JSP