Advanced Java

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Advanced Java Course content

Basics of a Web application

• What is a web application?
• What is a web client and web server?
• How do client and server communicate?
• HTTP protocol basics
• HTML language basics
• What is a TCP/IP port, URL?
• Need for a Web Container

Web Contaner and Web Application Project Set up

• To set up Tomcat Container on a machine
• To set up a Servlets JSP project in Eclipse
• To configure dependency of Servlet JSP APIs
• Web application project struture

Servlets

• What are Servlets?
• What can they do? Why are they needed?
• How do Servlets look in code?
• HTTP Methods; GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
• GET/POST request; differences between the two
• Servlet Lifecycle
• Servlet Context and Servlet Config
• Forwarding and Redirection of requests

Session Management

• What is a session?
• Why is it required?
• How to get a session?
• Session information passing between client and server
• Sesssion information passing mechanisms - Cookies, Rewriting
• How to destroy a session

JSPs

• Introduction to JSP an dneed for JSPs
• Basic HTML tags
• JSP Lifecycle

JSP Elements

• Scriptlets
• Expressions
• Declarations
• Significance of above elements / fitment into JSP Lifecycle
• What are Directives in JSP?
• Page Directive
• Include Driective
• Taglib Directive

JSP Tag library

• JSP Standard Actions
• Expression Language
• JSTL basics and it's usage
• Need for Custom Tag Library
• Custom Tag Library implementation