Web Technology Overview

Course Number: 528-JK
Recommended Duration: 2-3 days

Intended Audience
Managers, designers, developers, and other people needing an introduction to Web technology and trends.

Objective
Students are exposed at a high-level to the concepts and tools of web technology including: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, XML, and others. Comparisons of available technologies including Microsoft .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and their associated languages and tools will illustrate the respective strengths and weaknesses.

Prerequisites: No prior experience is needed.

Topics

What is the World-Wide-Web?
Client-side vs Server-Side design
Standards bodies: IETF, W3C, OMG, ISO, Section 508, and others
Typical Web-based Application Infrastructure: TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTTPS
High-level introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET
Standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, others
Client-side Processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, Applets
Server-side Processing: Servlets, JSPs, ASP.NET
Coming of Web Services: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
Explosion in Mobile Computing via the web
Deployment Issues: Security, Scalability, Concurrent and Parallel Processing Issues
Introduction to HTML: Text, Images, Anchors, Lists, Tables, Forms, Frames, CSS
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Patterns
Client-Side processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, and other client-side technologies
Overview of Java, C# .NET, VB .NET, Perl, C/C++
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs); Visual Studio, Eclipse, WSAD, JDeveloper, JBuilder, others
Introduction to J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
Introduction to Microsoft .NET
Dynamic Web Pages using JSP and ASP.NET
Web/Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Oracle AS, others
Multi-Tier Web-Based Deployment
Databases supporting Web Applications: Oracle, DB2/UDB, Sql Server, MySql, and others
Overview of XML: Portability, Validation via DTD and Schema, XML Transformations using XSLT and XSL:FO, Database interactions
Portabilty of Code: COM, DCOM, CORBA, SOAP, others
Web Services Introduction: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
Web Deployment Issues
Future Directions

Web Technology Overview

What is the World-Wide-Web?

Client-side vs Server-Side design

Standards bodies: IETF, W3C, OMG, ISO, Section 508, and others

Typical Web-based Application Infrastructure: TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTTPS

High-level introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET

Standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, others

Client-side Processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, Applets

Server-side Processing: Servlets, JSPs, ASP.NET

Coming of Web Services: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

Explosion in Mobile Computing via the web

Deployment Issues: Security, Scalability, Concurrent and Parallel Processing Issues

Introduction to HTML: Text, Images, Anchors, Lists, Tables, Forms, Frames, CSS

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Patterns

Client-Side processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, and other client-side technologies

Overview of Java, C# .NET, VB .NET, Perl, C/C++

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs); Visual Studio, Eclipse, WSAD, JDeveloper, JBuilder, others

Introduction to J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)

Introduction to Microsoft .NET

Dynamic Web Pages using JSP and ASP.NET

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Oracle AS, others

Multi-Tier Web-Based Deployment

Databases supporting Web Applications: Oracle, DB2/UDB, Sql Server, MySql, and others

Overview of XML: Portability, Validation via DTD and Schema, XML Transformations using XSLT and XSL:FO, Database interactions

Portabilty of Code: COM, DCOM, CORBA, SOAP, others

Web Services Introduction: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI

Web Deployment Issues

Future Directions