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MSAJSP

 

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More Servlets and JavaServer Pages

by Marty Hall

Note: the complete text of the second edition of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages is also online for free access. Please see http://pdf.coreservlets.com/.


There is now a free online servlet and JSP tutorial based on the book. The tutorial has complete source code that has been updated to the latest servlet and JSP versions, uses Eclipse, and has exercises and exercise solutions. See http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/csajsp2.html. Also, many (most?) new Web apps should consider using JSF 2 as a higher-level alternative to servlets and JSP. See the JSF 2 tutorial series.

If you find these free tutorials helpful, we would appreciate it if you would link to us.

Chapter 1: Server Setup and Configuration

Note: for updates to this material based on new Java and Tomcat versions, please see the coreservlets.com Apache Tomcat Tutorial.

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Topics:

  • Downloading the JDK
  • Obtaining a development server
  • Configuring and testing the server
  • Deploying and accessing HTML and JSP pages
  • Setting up your development environment
  • Deploying and accessing servlets
  • Simplifying servlet and JSP deployment

Chapter 2: A Fast Introduction to Basic Servlet Programming

Note: for updates to this material based on new servlet and JSP specifications, please see Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) (Second Edition) and the Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) tutorials and training materials.

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Topics:

  • The advantages of servlets over competing technologies
  • The basic servlet structure and life cycle
  • Servlet initialization parameters
  • Access to form data
  • HTTP 1.1 request headers, response headers, and status codes
  • The servlet equivalent of the standard CGI variables
  • Cookies in servlets
  • Session tracking

Chapter 3: A Fast Introduction to Basic JSP Programming

Note: for updates to this material based on new servlet and JSP specifications, please see Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (Second Edition) and the Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) tutorials and training materials.

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Topics:

  • Understanding the benefits of JSP
  • Invoking Java code with JSP expressions, scriptlets, and declarations
  • Structuring the servlet that results from a JSP page
  • Including files and applets in JSP documents
  • Using JavaBeans with JSP
  • Creating custom JSP tag libraries
  • Combining servlets and JSP: the Model View Controller (Model 2) architecture

Chapter 4: Using and Deploying Web Application

Note: for updates based on the new web.xml syntax for servlets 2.4, please see tutorials and training materials from More Servlets and JSP.

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Topics:

  • Registering Web applications with the server
  • Organizing Web applications
  • Deploying applications in WAR files
  • Recording Web application dependencies on shared libraries
  • Dealing with relative URLs
  • Sharing data among Web applications

Chapter 5: Controlling Web Application Behavior with web.xml

Note: for updates based on the new web.xml syntax for servlets 2.4, please see tutorials and training materials from More Servlets and JSP.

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Topics:

  • Customizing URLs
  • Turning off default URLs
  • Initializing servlets and JSP pages
  • Preloading servlets and JSP pages
  • Declaring filters for servlets and JSP pages
  • Designating welcome pages and error pages
  • Restricting access to Web resources
  • Controlling session timeouts
  • Documenting Web applications
  • Specifying MIME types
  • Locating tag library descriptors
  • Declaring event listeners
  • Accessing J2EE resources

Chapter 6: A Sample Web Application: An Online Boat Shop

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Topics:

  • Defining and using a larger Web application
  • The interaction among components in a Web application
  • Using sessions for per-user data
  • Using the servlet context for multiuser data
  • Managing information that is accessed by multiple servlets and JSP pages
  • Eliminating dependencies on the Web application name

Chapter 7: Declarative Web Application Security

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Topics:

  • Understanding the major aspects of Web application security
  • Authenticating users with HTML forms
  • Using BASIC HTTP authentication
  • Defining passwords in Tomcat, JRun, and ServletExec
  • Designating protected resources with the security-constraint element
  • Using login-config to specify the authentication method
  • Mandating the use of SSL
  • Configuring Tomcat to use SSL

Chapter 8: Programmatic Security

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Topics:

  • Combining container-managed and programmatic security
  • Using the isUserInRole method
  • Using the getRemoteUser method
  • Using the getUserPrincipal method
  • Programmatically controlling all aspects of security
  • Using SSL with programmatic security

Chapter 9: Servlet and JSP Filters

Note: for updates (especially for the ReplaceFilter), please see tutorials and training materials from More Servlets and JSP.

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Topics:

  • Designing basic filters
  • Reading request data
  • Accessing the servlet context
  • Initializing filters
  • Blocking the servlet or JSP response
  • Modifying the servlet or JSP response
  • Using filters for debugging and logging
  • Using filters to monitor site access
  • Using filters to replace strings
  • Using filters to compress the response

Chapter 10: The Application Events Framework

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Topics:

  • Understanding the general event-handling strategy
  • Monitoring servlet context initialization and shutdown
  • Setting application-wide values
  • Detecting changes in attributes of the servlet context
  • Recognizing creation and destruction of HTTP sessions
  • Analyzing overall session usage
  • Watching for changes in session attributes
  • Tracking purchases at an e-commerce site
  • Using multiple cooperating listeners
  • Packaging listeners in JSP tag libraries

Chapter 11: New Tag Library Features in JSP 1.2

Note: for updates for JSP 2.0, please see tutorials and training materials from More Servlets and JSP.

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Topics:

  • Converting TLD files to the new format
  • Bundling life-cycle event listeners with tag libraries
  • Checking custom tag syntax with TagLibraryValidator
  • Using the Simple API for XML (SAX) in validators
  • Handling errors with the TryCatchFinally interface
  • Changing names of method return values
  • Looping without creating BodyContent
  • Declaring scripting variables in the TLD file

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