Java Server Programming Outline

Introduction to J2EE
J2EE Technologies
J2EE Architecture

General Servlet Theory
The Servlet Life-Cycle
Reading Data From HTML Forms
The GET and POST methods of an HTML form
The Session and Application Objects
Various Means of Preserving Session State
Server-Side Includes
Page Forwarding
Page Includes

General JSP Theory
JSP Intrinsic Objects
The JSP Page Directive
Java Beans and JSP
Java Bean Scope

General Database Theory
The Database Driver Categories and Versions
The Various JDBC Statement Classes
The ResultSet and ResultSetMetaData Classes
Handling SQL Exceptions
Synchronization

XML
SAX Parsing
The SAXParserFactory class
Namespace-aware and validating parsers
The Handler class
SAX event methods
Event-driven programming

DOM Parsing
The DocumentBuilderFactor class
Namespace-aware and validating parsers
Document node structure
Node types
DOM parsing classes that represent document components
Document
Element
NodeList
NamedNodeMap
Element
XML error handling