Approximate Schedule

Week 1

Introduction

• Motivation
• Architectural overview
• Test-driven development
• HTTP protocol

Reading

• J2EE Overview
• J2EE Blueprints
• J2EE Blueprints Digest
• Architectural issues for web layer
• HTTP protocol overview
• Test-driven development
• Text: introduction and platform technologies

Week 2

The client tier

• (Re)presenting content
• XML, DTDs, schemas
• Specific markup languages: HTML, XHTML, VoiceXML, WML
• Stylesheets and transformation: CSS, XSL/XSLT, SAX, DOM
• Client-side programming, JavaScript

Reading

• Text: client tier
  
• XML introduction / overview / FAQ
• XHTML introduction / introduction / forms / resources / basic / mobile
• HTML introduction / overview
• CSS introduction / tutorial / reference / alt reference
• CSS2 official home / tutorial / reference
• JavaScript introduction / reference
• XML Schema introduction / tutorial

Week 3

The web tier: introduction

• Creating dynamic content: CGI
• Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Java servlets
• Using control flow to control dynamic content generation
• Getting data from the user agent using HTML forms

Reading

• Text: web tier
• JSP Tutorial from Sun (Chapters 12-17)
• JSP Technical Resources
• JSP v1.2 Syntax Reference

Quiz 1

Week 4

The web tier: interaction and sessions

• Factoring out logic to JavaBeans
• Sessions and state, concurrency issues
• Example: number guessing game (in depth)
• Error handling

Reading

• Text: web tier
• Sun Java Tutorial: Servlets (Chapter 4)
• Java Servlet API Documentation
• Disable browser caching
• More on caching and associated warnings

Week 5

The web tier: web application frameworks

• Architectural issues in the web tier
• Web application frameworks
• Model-View-Controller
  
• Jakarta Struts
  

Reading

• Text: web tier
• MVC design pattern
• MVC design pattern (detailed)
• MVC as an aggregate design pattern
  
• Struts documentation
• Struts tutorials
• Excerpts from Professional JSP book (look at chapter 12)

Week 6

The web tier: web application frameworks

• Architectural issues in the web tier
• Web application frameworks
• Model-View-Controller
  
• Jakarta Struts

Week 7

The web tier: abstractions for content generation

• Using tag libraries
• Writing tag libraries
• Example: Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
• Templating, layout, and decoration frameworks
• Example: SiteMesh, StringTemplate (template engine supporting strict model-view separation)
  

Reading

• Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
• JSTL tutorial
• JSTL reference
• Jakarta JSTL implementation
• SiteMesh
• StringTemplate
  

Week 8

Quiz 2

The web tier: security and authentication

Reading

• J2EE Security
• JBoss authentication setup

Week 9

The upper component tier: business logic

• Programming of services
• JavaBeans as business delegates in JSPs
• Domain-specific languages for services
• Sisl (Several interfaces, single logic)
• Enterprise Java Beans (session beans)

Reading

• Text: EJB tier
• Enterprise Java Beans documentation
• Sisl papers
• Spring Framework

Week 10

The lower component tier: persistence

• Object-Relational Mappings
• Enterprise Java Beans (entity beans)
• Hibernate
• Connecting to databases
• JDBC

Reading

• Text: EJB tier and EIS tier
• Enterprise Java Beans documentation
• Hibernate
• JDBC documentation

Week 11

The lower component tier: persistence

Packaging and deployment of server-side apps

Reading

• Text: packaging and deployment

Week 12

Quiz 3

Advanced server-side issues

• Concurrency issues
• Performance issues
• Security

Reading

• Sharing information
• Thread safety
• Performance handout
• Java Performance Tuning
• Java Performance and Scalability, Volume 1: Server-Side Programming Techniques
• WWW Security FAQ

Week 13

Middleware

• Sockets
• RMI
• Message-oriented middleware

Reading

• Sockets
  
• RMI documentation
• JMS documentation

Week 14

Recent Trends and Developments

• Web Services
• UIML
• ...