Web programming

Units WEB1P and WEB2P

WEB1P unit schedule 2008-2009 semester 1

Subject to revision

The topics covered in the unit will include:

1  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). 
2  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. 
3  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. 
4  Linking a web application to a database. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Connections and pooling. SQL statements in the application. Transactions. 
5  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. 
6  The marketplace for website tools: servers, browsers, databases, etc. 
Session number
 University week number Date
(Tuesdays except
where stated)		 Lecture topic Practical topic
1
 11 7th October 2008

Introduction (unit admin topics)

Web architecture; HTTP and CGI; Alternatives to CGI

PPT slides

Web marketplace

Introduction to NetBeans

Java catch up

2
 12

14th October

LECTURE AT 1pm BACK ON!

Passing data from an HTML page to a program

PPT slides

Using NetBeans to create servlets and JSPs

Servlet programming exercise

Servlet exercise 2

3
 13 21st October

Web programming in Java (servlets and JSPs)

Servlet and JSP PPT slides

MVC PPT slides

4
 14

28th October
5
 15 4th November

Client side programming with JavaScript and DHTML

PPT slides

Example programs

Exercises JS1

Exercises JS2

Exercises JS3

Exercises JS4

Exercises JS5

6
 16 11th November
7
 17 18th November

Databases and JDBC ( PPT slides)

 
  18 25th November No session this week because of other SWSs  
8 19 2nd December Cancelled - Jim ill.  
9 20 9th December

Hibernate

dbtest.zip

jimapp20.zip

 Review of servlet exercises
  21 16th December CHRISTMAS VACATION  
  22 23rd December  
  23 30th December 2008  
  24 6th January 2009

Security (PPT slides)

  
  24 Friday 9th January 2009 Supervised Work Session  
 10
 25 13th 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.