JSP by Example

Course Number:  688-ETI
Recommended Duration:  2 days

Intended Audience: 
Developers of web applications, project leaders and managers.

Course Overview
This two-day course will enable students to create dynamic web applications.  In general, the course's focus is on hands-on examples rather than lecture.  Theory, design, and project management provide the necessary foundation for applications development.

Prerequisites:  A working knowledge of Java, XML, SQL.

Topics

• JSP introduction
• The Java Web server
• JSP and servlets
• Syntax summary
• Working with examples: scripting elements
  • The page directive
  • The include directive
  • JSP tags
  • Expressions
  • Scriptlets
  • Declarations
• Handling HTML forms
  • Constructing the form
  • Using the GET and POST methods
  • Writing a Java bean
  • Moving data from the form to the bean
  • Check the request object
  • Moving data from the bean to the JSP page
• Using Scripting Elements
  • Adding scripts
  • <%, <%=, and <%!
  • Mixing scripts and tags
  • How scripts execute
• Exception handling
• Predefined variables
  • Request
  • Response
  • Out
  • Session
  • Application
  • Config
  • PageContext
  • Page
• Actions
  • The jsp:include action
  • The jsp:useBean action
  • The jsp:setProperty action
  • The jsp:plugin action
• JSP/Java Bean program design
• Working through an example
• Culmination of projects: using the information in an HTML form, display a JSP page with an embedded bean that will process the data.  The result is displayed in a new JSP page.