Overview

This 5-day, lecture and laboratory course surveys various technologies for building the server side of web applications. Key topics include web servers, database access, PHP, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, JavaServer Faces and web services. The course offers extensive hands-on laboratory experience. Solutions are provided for laboratory exercises. The course includes approximately 60% lecture and 40% laboratory exercises. 

Prerequisites

• Web201—Client-side Internet and Web Programming, or equivalent programming experience, or
• Object-oriented programming experience in current programming languages, such as Visual Basic, Visual C# or Java.

Web Servers (IIS and Apache) 

• HTTP Transactions
• Multitier Application Architecture
• Client-Side Scripting versus Server-Side Scripting
• Accessing Web Servers
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 and 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0
• Apache HTTP Server
• Requesting Documents

Database: SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET 2.0 and Java DB              

• Relational Databases
• Relational Database Overview: A books Database
• SQL
• Basic SELECT Query
• WHERE Clause
• ORDER BY Clause
• Combining Data from Multiple Tables: INNER JOIN
• INSERT Statement
• UPDATE Statement
• DELETE Statement
• MySQL
• Instructions for Installing MySQL
• Instructions for Setting Up a MySQL User Account
• Creating a Database in MySQL
• ADO.NET Object Model
• Java DB/Apache Derby

PHP

• PHP Basics
• String Processing and Regular Expressions
• Comparing Strings
• Regular Expressions
• Form Processing and Business Logic
• Connecting to a Database
• Using Cookies
• Dynamic Content
• Operator Precedence Chart

Ruby on Rails

• Ruby
• Rails Framework
• ActionController and ActionView
• A Database-Driven Web Application
• Case Study: Message Forum
• Logging In and Logging Out
• Embellishing the Models
• Generating Scaffold Code
• Forum Controller and Forum Views
• Message Controller and Message Views
• Ajax-Enabled Rails Applications
• Script.aculo.us

ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET Ajax

• Creating and Running a Simple Web Form Example
• Examining an ASPX File
• Examining a Code-Behind File
• Relationship Between an ASPX File and a Code-Behind File
• How the Code in an ASP.NET Web Page Executes
• Examining the XHTML Generated by an ASP.NET Application
• Building an ASP.NET Web Application
• Web Controls
• Text and Graphics Controls
• AdRotator Control
• Validation Controls
• Session Tracking
• Cookies
• Session Tracking with HttpSessionState
• Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP.NET
• Building a Web Form That Displays Data from a Database
• Modifying the Code-Behind File for the Guestbook Application
• Case Study: Secure Books Database Application
• Examining the Completed Secure Books Database Application
• Creating the Secure Books Database Application
• ASP.NET Ajax

JavaServer™ Faces Web Applications

• Java Web Technologies
• Servlets
• JavaServer Pages
• JavaServer Faces
• Web Technologies in Netbeans
• Creating and Running a Simple Application in Netbeans
• Examining a JSP File
• Examining a Page Bean File
• Event-Processing Life Cycle
• Relationship Between the JSP and Page Bean Files
• Examining the XHTML Generated by a Java Web Application
• Building a Web Application in Netbeans
• JSF Components
• Text and Graphics Components
• Validation Using Validator Components and Custom Validators
• Session Tracking
• Cookies
• Session Tracking with the SessionBean Object

Ajax-Enabled JavaServer™ Faces Web Applications         

• Accessing Databases in Web Applications
• Building a Web Application That Displays Data from a Database
• Modifying the Page Bean File for the AddressBook Application
• Ajax-Enabled JSF Components
• AutoComplete Text Field and Virtual Forms
• Configuring Virtual Forms
• JSP File with Virtual Forms and an AutoComplete Text Field
• Providing Suggestions for an AutoComplete Text Field
• Google Maps Map Viewer Component
• Obtaining a Google Maps API Key
• Adding a Map Viewer Component to a Page
• JSP File with a Map Viewer Component
• Page Bean That Displays a Map in the Map Viewer Component
• Web Services
• Java Web Services Basics
• Creating, Publishing, Testing and Describing a Web Service
• Creating a Web Application Project and Adding a Web
• Defining the HugeInteger Web Service in Netbeans
• Publishing the HugeInteger Web Service from Netbeans
• Testing the HugeInteger Web Service with Sun Java System
• Application Server’s Tester Web page
• Describing a Web Service with the Web Service
• Description Language (WSDL)
• Consuming a Web Service
• Creating a Client in Netbeans to Consume the HugeInteger
• Web Service
• Consuming the HugeInteger Web Service
• SOAP
• Session Tracking in Web Services
• Creating a Blackjack Web Service
• Consuming the Blackjack Web Service
• Consuming a Database-Driven Web Service from a Web Application
• Configuring Java DB in Netbeans and Creating the
• Reservation Database
• Creating a Web Application to Interact with the
• Reservation Web Service
• Passing an Object of a User-Defined Type to a Web Service
• REST-Based Web Services in ASP.NET
• REST-Based Web Service Functionality
• Creating an ASP.NET REST-Based Web Service
• Adding Data Components to a Web Service

Price

• $12,995 lecture fee for up to 20 students maximum. Add $1,000 for international or custom classes.
• Client purchases the books, at its own expense, directly from Pearson (the publisher) at the discounted Deitel rate.
  • Materials: Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 4/e (ISBN: 0131752421)
• Instructor Travel Reimbursement (if travel is required).

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