This two-day module introduces JavaServer Pages, or JSP, which is the standard means of authoring dynamic content for Web applications under the Java Enterprise platform. The module begins with an introduction of Web applications in general, shows how Java servlets and JSPs establish a framework for writing Web applications, and then covers JSP 2.0 features in detail, from scripting elements to use of dedicated JavaBeans to JSP expressions, and quick introductions of JSTL and custom tag development.

By the end of the module students will be able to create their own JSP applications, including interactive applications using HTML forms and pages that perform fairly complex processing using scripts and or actions. Although scripting is covered, the scriptless authoring style encouraged by the JSP 2.0 specification is emphasized, and students will be well equipped to develop concise and effective JSP applications.

Java Training Learning Objectives

• Explain the fundamentals of HTML and HTTP in the World Wide Web.
• Describe the CGI and its role in implementing interactive Web applications.
• Describe JavaServer Pages and their relationship to servlets and J2EE generally.
• Describe how a JSP is translated into a servlet and processed at runtime.
• Explain the use of directives on JSPs and outline the principal directives.
• Implement simple JSPs that use Java code in declarations, expressions and scriptlets.
• Enumerate and use the implicit objects available to scripting elements.
• Explain the use of HTML forms in Web applications.
• Implement an interactive Web application using JSP.
• Use Java exception handling and JSP error pages to handle errors in JSP applications.
• Implement session management for a JSP application.
• Manage cookies to store client-specific information at various scopes and durations.
• Explain the use of JavaBeans in JSP and their role in enhancing the separation of business logic from page design.
• Use Beans to implement effective interactive JSP applications.
• Describe the use of the JSP expression language in simplifying dynamic page output.
• Write JSP expressions and implement JSPs that use them in favor of scripts.
• Describe the role of the JSP Standard Tag Library in JSP development.
• Implement JSPs that use basic JSTL actions to simplify presentation logic.
• Describe custom tags in JSP and explain how they are implemented, both using Java and JSP itself, and how they are used.
• Discuss threading issues in JSP and describe the use of directives to control how threading is handled.
• Describe the various uses of XML in JSP applications.
• Deploy a logical Web application to a Web server in a WAR file.

Hardware – minimal

• 500 MHz, 256 meg RAM, 500 meg disk space.