Introduction to course

Introduction to static web-pages (XHTML etc.)

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

"HTML tutorial" from W3Schools:

• Introduction to HTML
• HTML Elements
• Basic HTML Tags
• HTML Links
• HTML Tables
• HTML Lists
• HTML Forms and Input

"XHTML tutorial" from W3Schools:

• Introduction to XHTML
• XHTML - Why?
• Differences between XHTML and HTML
• XHTML syntax
• XHTML DTD
• XHTML HowTo
• XHTML Validation
• XHTML Summary

"CSS tutorial" from W3Schools:

• Introduction to CSS
• CSS Syntax
• CSS HowTo
• CSS Background
• CSS Text
• CSS Font
• CSS Padding
• CSS List
• CSS Table

NOTE: All above mentioned W3Schools tutorials contains more elements, including advanced elements, examples and references.

Marty Hall: "More Servlets and JavaServerPages" (on-line available as PDF-file).

Chapter 2: "A Fast Introduction to Basic Servlet Programming"

• 2.2 Basic Servlet Structure, page 39-48
• 2.4 The Client Request: Form Data, page 53-58
• 2.5 The Client Request: HTTP Request Headers, page 58-67
• 2.7 The Server Response: HTTP Status Codes, page 70-78
• 2.8 The Server Response: HTTP Response Headers, page 83-91

Java Servlets advanced, JavaServer Pages (JSP)

• 2.3 The Servlet Life Cycle, page 48-53
• 2.9 Cookies,  page 92-105
• 2.10 Session Tracking, page 105-118
• 3.1 JSP Overview, page 122-123
• 3.2 Advantages of JSP
  • Versus Pure Servlets, page 124

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JavaServer Pages (JSP)

JDBC in web applications

• 3.3 Invoking Code with JSP Scripting Elements, page 125-141
• 3.4 Structuring Autogenerated Servlets: The JSP page directives, page 141-142
  • The import Attribute, page 142-145
  • The contentType Attribute, page 145-147
  • The errorPage Attribute, page 150
  • The isErrorPage Attribute, page 150

For your reference: JavaServer Pages 2.0 Syntax Reference

• 4.2 Structure of a Web Application, page 255

Chapter 5: Controlling Web Application Behavior with web.xml

• 5.1 Defining the Header and Root Elements, page 277-279
• 5.3 Assigning Names and Custom URLs, page 282-286
• 5.4 Disabling the Invoker Servlets, page 289-292
• 5.5 Initializing and Preloading Servlets and JSP Pages, page 294-297 + 301
• 5.7 Specifying Welcome Pages, page 306
• 5.8 Designating Pages to Handle Errors, page 306-312
• 5.10 Controlling Session Timeouts, 318

Slides: Configuring web servers and web applications

• e-oriented architecture, Wikipedia: SOA
• Ed Ort Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Tools, Sun Microsystems 2005 SOA2
• JAX-RPC, Wikipedia: JAX-RPC
• Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS), Wikipedia : JAX-WS
• Anders Børjesson Web Services (slides)