Java Servlet and JSP Programming

Course Number:  551-JK
Recommended Duration:  3 days

Intended Audience
Experienced Java programmers needing to create server-side Java.

Course Overview
Java programmers learn to use create and deploy Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs).  There are twelve machine exercises.  Exercises use Sun Java J2SE, J2EE, and the Jakarta-Tomcat Server (or installation standard server). IDEs such as Eclipse, IBM RAD, JDeveloper, JBuilder, etc... may be used upon request.

Course appropriate for Java 5.0 (Java 1.5) and J2EE 1.4.  Course covers Java 2 (aka. Java 1.4) with some new Java 5.0 features being introduced.  Most topics and examples also apply to Java 1.1, Java 1.2, Java 1.3, Java 1.4., and J2EE 1.3.

Objectives
Participants will learn to create and deploy server-side Java programs using both Servlet and JSP techniques.  Numerous hands-on exercises reinforce new concepts.

Prerequisites
Students must have Java experience or have completed "Java Client-Side Programming I", "Java Server-Side Programming I" or equivalent.

Topics

• J2EE introduction

• Java Beans

• Servlets

• Deploying and executing Servlets

• Working with HTML form input and output

• Java Server Pages (JSPs)

• Expressions

• Scriptlets

• Declarations, Directives, and Comments

• Using include directives

• Deploying and executing JSPs

• Mixing Servlets and JSPs

• JSP Model 2 or MVC

• Java Tags

• Custom Tags and Tag Libraries

• Servlet Filters

• Best practices and performance issues

• Deploying web applications using WAR/JAR/EAR files

• Web.xml

• Introduction to Struts and Java Server Faces (JSF)