Java for Web Devs+Struts

Training Course Objectives:
This 5 day workshop will teach you about the capabilities of servlets, their advantages over CGI, the Servlet architecture, JDBC, session management and security.
You will learn about JSP syntax, deployment, and application models, how to use Java as a scripting language, and how to build robust and capable web applications using Servlets, JSPs, JavaBeans and the use of Apache Struts as a web framework.
Students will leave this course armed with the skills they require to understand server side Java, develop Servlets to process HTML forms and generate dynamic content, and understand and learn how to create JSPs.
Developers will also learn to:

• Leverage many of the most popular open source tools to accelerate web development
• Allow Servlets to cooperate and share data
• Store and process Session Information
• Deal with concurrency issues
• Generate dynamic content from a data model
• Access a database from a web application using JDBC
• Implement Security
• Test web applications

Training Course Contents: Web Architecture & Fundamental

• HTTP servlets
• HTTP requests
• HTML basics
• The Java web container

Web Application Architecture

• View patterns
• The MVC architecture
• Layering an application

HTTP Servlets

• Servlets
• Writing a basic HTTP servlet
• Form processing
• Controlling client behaviour
• Sessions and cookies
• Understanding scope

JavaServer Pages

• Introduction to JSP
• Basic JSP syntax
• Implicit objects
• Actions and JavaBeans
• Accessing the model

Web Applications

• Understanding web applications
• Configuring web applications (web. xml in depth)
• Overview of security
• Form based security
• Basic authentications
• Programmatic security

Custom Tags

• Introduction to custom tags
• An example: DisplayTag
• Developing simple custom tags
• Developing advanced custom tags
• Tag library listeners and validators
• An overview of JSTL

The Struts Framework

• The Struts ActionServlet
• Actions
• ActionForms
• Understanding Struts config
• Validation
• Struts tag libraries
• Dynamic forms
• Internationalization
• Error handling
• Struts plugins
• Tiles
• The Struts console
• Deployment of a Struts application.
• Alternatives to Struts

Tools for Web App Development

• The Eclipse IDE
• The Tomcat web container
• Oracle's OC4J web container