Web programming

Units WEB1P and WEB2P

WEB1P unit schedule 2006-2007 semester 1

Subject to revision

The topics covered in the unit will include:

The architecture of web applications: clients and servers; the HTTP protocol. Static versus dynamic web content. How web servers generate dynamic content (CGI; built-in; bolt-on approaches). 
Developing dynamic web pages using the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Approaches using servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP). Accessing request and response attributes. Scriptlets. The request, session and servlet context scopes. Comparison of Java approaches with Perl and other languages. 
Structuring applications. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Implementing MVC using Java: beans, servlets and JSP pages. Linking servlets and JSPs to respond to a request. Application layering. 
Linking a web application to a database. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Connections and pooling. SQL statements in the application. Transactions. 
Dynamic HTML: making a web page dynamic. JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets. Image processing. Verifying forms. Event handling. Implementation of complex user interface elements. Separation of form and content. 
The marketplace for website tools: servers, browsers, databases, etc. 
Session number
University week number Date (Fridays except where stated) Lecture topic Practical topic
1
11 13th October 2006

Introduction (unit admin topics)

Web architecture; HTTP and CGI; Alternatives to CGI

PPT slides

Web marketplace

Introduction to NetBeans

Java catch up

2
12 20th October

Passing data from an HTML page to a program

PPT slides

Using NetBeans to create servlets and JSPs
3
13 27th October

Web programming in Java (servlets and JSPs)

Servlet and JSP PPT slides

MVC PPT slides

Servlet programming exercise

Servlet exercise 2

4
14 3rd November
5
15 10th November

Client side programming with JavaScript and DHTML (PPT slides)

Exercises JS1

Exercises JS2

Exercises JS3

Exercises JS4

Exercises JS5

6
16 17th November
7
17 24th November

Databases and JDBC ( PPT slides)

 
  18 1st December No session this week because of other SWSs  
8 19 8th December Hibernate  
9 20 15th December

Security (PPT slides)

Review of servlet exercises
  21 22nd December CHRISTMAS VACATION  
  22 29th December  
  23 5th January 2007  
  24 12th January Supervised Work Session  
 10
25 19th January

Future trends

SWS review

Revision

No tutorial
 

Last updated by Prof Jim Briggs of the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth

 
The web programming units include some material that was formerly part of the WPRMP, WECPP, WPSSM and WEMAM units.