Topics

• Explain the fundamentals of HTML and HTTP in the World Wide Web
• 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
• Implement an interactive Web application using HTML forms and 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
• Use JavaBeans to implement effective interactive JSP applications
• 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
• Describe the use of the JSP expression language to simplify dynamic page output
• Write JSP expressions and implement JSPs that use them in favor of scripts
• Implement JSPs that use basic JSTL actions to simplify presentation logic
• Decompose a JSP application design into fine-grained, reusable elements including JavaBeans, custom tag handlers and tag files that use JSTL
• Use core JSTL actions to complement standard actions, custom actions, and JSP expressions for seamless, script-free page logic
• Direct conditional and iterative processing of page content by looping through ranges of numbers, over elements in a collection, or over tokens in a master string
• Set locale and time zone information in JSPs, and use them to correctly format numbers, dates and times for all clients
• Use resource bundles to manage application strings, and produce the appropriate strings at runtime for a particular client locale
• Locate a data source, query for relational data, and parse result sets
• Perform updates, inserts and deletes on relational data using SQL actions
• Manage queries and updates in transaction contexts
• Derive information from parsed XML content using XPath expressions
• Implement conditional processing and loops based on XML information
• Apply XSLT transformations to XML content
• Implement a simple Web service that reads and writes SOAP
• Understand and appreciate the role of Java Servlets in the overall Java 2 Enterprise Edition architecture, and as the best Java solution to HTTP application development
• Use request and response objects provided to a servlet to read CGI parameters and to produce an HTML response
• Develop interactive Web applications using HTML forms and servlets
• Manage complex conversations with HTTP clients using session attributes
• Understand the role of JDBC in Java persistence code, and use JDBC for persistence in servlet applications
• Preserve portability and ease of administration for a servlet application by parameterizing servlet code, using initialization parameters, properties files, and JNDI
• Use JavaBeans classes to share complex business data between components
• Implement filters to adapt existing servlets with new features, and to maximize the decomposition of logic between vertical business functions and horizontal facilities

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