AGENDA

1. Overview

·         HTML, web servers, and browsers

·         Javascript

·         Java and Application Servers

2. HTML (1) – static pages

·         What is it

o        Web Servers (Apache, IIS, etc) - what they do

o        Web Browsers (IE, Netscape, Opera, etc) - what they do.

o        Web server document root directory

o        URL addressing

·         Basic HTML syntax

·         Deploying HTML to a web server

·         Lab: create & deploy a simple HTML page using notepad

·         Positioning (CSS vs. Tables)

o        Using HTML tables to position elements

o        Using HTML tables to position elements

o        Lab: modify static HTML to position elements via tables and CSS

  3. HTML(2) – Forms

·         Forms

o        Basic syntax

o        Get and Post

o        CGI vs. Servlets

o        Interaction between a servlet and an HTML form

·         Tools

o        HTML syntax-aware text editors (Medit, NoteTab, LPEX, etc)

o        HTML WYSIWYG editors (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, etc)

o        HTML validators

·         Reference Materials

·         Lab S1: create & deploy a simple HTML form using a supplied servlet

  4. Javascript

·         What is it

·         Why do you use it

·         How do you use it

·         Basic syntax

·         Accessing form variables

·         How you add data-entry validation to a form

·         Reference Materials

·         Lab S2: Add data-entry validation to the form developed in Lab S1

  5. Java (1) – Basic Syntax

·         What is it:

o        Program types (Application, Applet, Servlet)

o        Programs, JavaBeans, and EJBs

o        What Javac does

o        What a JVM does

o        Sun JDK -

o        Java syntax-aware text editors (Medit, NoteTab, LPEX, etc)

o        Java IDEs (VA Java, VisualCafe, Jbuilder, etc) -what they do

o        Use of the Classpath

  Java (1) (cont)

·         Basic syntax

o        Simple Java programs

o        Use of the Classpath

·         Lab: ‘Hello World’ Java application.

          o        Variables: defining, using, scope, hiding

o        Calculations

o        Control: If / else, switch, while, for, etc.

·         Lab: Variables and control

  6. Java (2) – Methods and Classes

·         Methods

o        How do you invoke them

o        How do you pass parameters

o        How are they defined

·         Classes

o        OO structure

o        Variables (basic vs. classes)

o        Methods

o        Inheritance

·         Packages

o        Grouping functions: com.bridgewater.util

o        Importing and using classes

·         Lab: ‘Simple calc’ Java application.

  7. Object Oriented Development

·         What is OOD?

·         Why use OO?

·         Patterns – what are they?

·         UML – what it is and what it is not.

  8. Java (3) - Servlets

·         Application Servers (Websphere, Tomcat, etc)

o        What they do

o        Servlets and JSP

o        EJB Containers

o        Effect of the Classpath

·         Servlet structure: init, destroy, doget, dopost

·         Servlet session data: saving private data – program data vs. project data

·         Deploying a servlet

·         Reference Materials

·         Lab S3: modify and re-deploy the servlet used in Lab S2 to override a method and add business logic.

  9. The Model-View-Controller approach

·         Suggested structure for an MVC approach:

·         Using an HTML form file

·         Using an HDML or WML file for mobile web access

·         Check browser type, and send HDML or HTML

·         Getting and setting values from HTML form fields

·         Using inheritance to keep business logic and program logic apart.

·         Review servlet code

  10. HTML (3)

·         Frames – showing multiple HTML pages at once

·         Going beyond text fields: using more advanced GUI parts in HTML forms

·         Multi-line text fields, Check boxes, Radio buttons, Drop-down lists

·         HTML syntax

·         How a servlet sets and reads the values from non-text form parts.

·         Static value lists vs. data-driven lists.

·         Lab S4: modify the HTML form and the servlet used in Lab S3 to change one field to a checkbox, and another to a drop-down list.

  11. Java (4) Database access in Java

·         ODBC bridge vs. native database drivers

·         Syntax of JDBC

o        Select row via cursor and fetch

o        Select row via prepared statement

o        Update row

·         Syntax of SQLJ

o        Select row

o        Update row

o        Requirements for host variables

·         JDBC vs. SQLJ

o        Pros and cons of both

o        Impact on development – SQLJ preprocessor

·         Lab S5:  Modify the database IO code used by the servlet in Lab S4 – change the SQL.

  12. Java (5) Access to mainframe resources

·         Why access mainframe resources

·         Accessing a DB2 database

·         Using CICS Transaction Gateway to call Cobol Programs

  13. Using an IDE: VisualAge Java

·         Basic operation of the IDE

·         Code management

·         Editor

·         Debugger

·         Websphere Test Environment

·         Labs: creating and debugging applications and servlets.

  14. Putting it all together

Lab S6:  Modify the form and servlet used in Lab S5 – add a new field to the form and Programdata class, add code to the servlet to get and set the new field, and add a method to perform database IO to compute the value for the field after each ‘Select’, ‘Browse’, or ‘Update’ action.

  15. Wrap-up

·         Summary of class

·         What’s next