An Introduction to Web Application Development with IBM WebSphere Studio IBM Certified Associate Developer

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ISBN: 9781931182119 | 1931182116
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Copyright: 9/1/2003

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IBM has developed a world class certification program for professionals to establish standards that identify required levels of competency. This is the first study guide designed specifically for professionals who are preparing for test 285. With this guide, IBM now provides a quick and easy way to learn about IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer and prepare for the IBM certification exam.

Scope and coverage of the Certification Guide	p. 1
Technology and tools	p. 1
WebSphere Studio	p. 2
Web application development	p. 3
A dual overview of the guide	p. 4
Overview of the chapters	p. 4
Cross referencing certification objectives	p. 6
Summary	p. 8
System requirements and installation	p. 9
What's on the CDs	p. 10
Minimum system requirements	p. 10
Installing WebSphere Application Server - Express	p. 11
Verifying the installation	p. 13
Verifying your Site Developer installation	p. 14
Verifying your Agent Controller installation	p. 14
Verifying your Application Server installation	p. 14
Exercises	p. 15
Overview of Eclipse, Studio Workbench, and WebSphere Studio	p. 23
The Eclipse Project	p. 23
The Eclipse Platform	p. 24
Eclipse architecture	p. 25
The Eclipse Workbench	p. 25
Java Development Tools (JDT)	p. 26
Tools from IBM	p. 28
WebSphere Studio configurations	p. 28
Role-based development, perspectives	p. 30
Tools from other companies	p. 32
Where to find out more	p. 32
Test yourself	p. 33
Key terms	p. 33
Review questions	p. 33
Developing a simple Java application	p. 35
Java projects, Web applications, and Enterprise Applications	p. 36
Working with perspectives	p. 36
Creating Java projects	p. 38
The Java perspective	p. 41
Creating a Java package	p. 42
Creating Java types	p. 44
The Java editor	p. 47
Editor view	p. 47
Code assist	p. 49
Outline view	p. 51
Compiling Java source	p. 54
Simple source control	p. 57
Running non-Web-based Java programs	p. 62
Exercise	p. 65
Test yourself	p. 74
Key terms	p. 74
Review questions	p. 74
Debugging techniques	p. 75
Why and when to debug	p. 76
Sending messages and tracing	p. 76
Starting a program for debugging	p. 77
Setting breakpoints in Java code	p. 79
Debug perspective description	p. 82
Debugger controls and stepping through code	p. 87
Step filtering	p. 88
Other controls	p. 89
Viewing variables	p. 90
Toolbar buttons	p. 92
Expressions view	p. 93
Display view	p. 95
Other types of breakpoints	p. 97
Conditional breakpoints	p. 98
Java Exception breakpoints	p. 101
Watchpoints	p. 104
Method breakpoints	p. 105
Scrapbook	p. 107
Hot code replace	p. 110
Exercise	p. 113
Debug ConsoleTest.java	p. 115
Debug SimpleDebug.java	p. 115
Debug JavaExceptionTest.java	p. 121
Using the Scrapbook	p. 124
Test yourself	p. 125
Key terms	p. 125
Review questions	p. 125
Essential HTTP and HTML	p. 127
Overview of HTTP	p. 127
Request	p. 128
Response	p. 130
Flow of request and response	p. 132
Overview of common and essential HTML	p. 133
How to create HTML documents	p. 133
Essential HTML tags	p. 137
The [left angle bracket]FORM[right angle bracket] HTML tag, its content, and its attributes	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 142
Introduction to WebSphere Studio Page Designe	p. 143
Library view	p. 145
Outline view	p. 147
Attributes view	p. 147
Other views	p. 148
Cascading Style Sheets	p. 151
Exercise	p. 152
Test yourself	p. 163
Key terms	p. 163
Review questions	p. 163
Introduction to servlets	p. 165
Servlet lifecycle	p. 166
The Web Project wizard	p. 167
The New Servlet wizard	p. 170
Exploring servlet lifecycle	p. 173
Testing the servlet lifecycle	p. 174
Producing an HTTP response stream	p. 178
J2EE application packaging and web.xml	p. 179
Parameterizing servlets	p. 183
Review	p. 187
Exercise	p. 187
Test yourself	p. 188
Key terms	p. 188
Review questions	p. 188
Handling HTTP requests	p. 189
Introduction to the HTTP request	p. 189
The HttpServletRequest Interface	p. 191
Reading the HTTP input stream	p. 194
Architecture of request processing	p. 196
Using JavaScript to perform form validation	p. 201
Review	p. 203
Exercise	p. 203
Creating the registration Web page	p. 203
Creating the registration servlet	p. 207
Setting up the TCP/IP monitoring server	p. 211
Inspecting the HTTP Request	p. 212
Adding output parameter processing and output rendering	p. 213
Test yourself	p. 216
Key terms	p. 216
Review questions	p. 216
Case study	p. 217
Case study data model	p. 217
Application use cases	p. 220
Use case: vendor registration	p. 221
Use case: vendor login	p. 222
Use case: vendor review and submission of invoice	p. 223
Use case: Administration creation of purchase order	p. 225
Application state with servlets	p. 227
Application state	p. 228
Session lifetime	p. 234
Session scaling	p. 235
Review	p. 235
Exercise	p. 235
Test yourself	p. 245
Key terms	p. 245
Review questions	p. 245
Model-View-Controller basics	p. 247
The servlet as a controller	p. 248
Refactoring view logic from controller servlets	p. 250
Passing object references between servlets	p. 251
Review	p. 251
Exercise	p. 252
Creating the view servlet	p. 252
Test yourself	p. 255
Key terms	p. 255
Review questions	p. 255
Introduction to JavaServer Pages	p. 257
Overview of JSP document structure	p. 258
Runtime model and page compilation	p. 258
JSP Syntax overview	p. 259
Directives	p. 259
Scripting elements	p. 261
Building JSP pages with WebSphere Studio	p. 266
Creating a new JSP page	p. 266
Adding content in Design view	p. 271
Editing in Source view	p. 274
Testing and debugging JSP pages in WebSphere Studio	p. 274
Review	p. 276
Exercise	p. 277
Test yourself	p. 284
Key terms	p. 284
Review questions	p. 284
Considerations for building robust Web applications	p. 285
Input data errors	p. 286
Application-level exceptions and error pages	p. 296
Review	p. 299
Test yourself	p. 299
Key terms	p. 299
Review questions	p. 299
JSP tag libraries	p. 301
Motivation for using JSP tag libraries	p. 302
Existing tag libraries	p. 302
Jakarta tag libraries	p. 303
JavaServer Pages Standard Library (JSTL)	p. 303
Using custom tag libraries in WebSphere Studio	p. 306
Creating your own custom action tags	p. 312
Exercise	p. 313
Test yourself	p. 325
Key terms	p. 325
Review questions	p. 325
Accessing databases with JDBC	p. 327
The JDBC 2.0 API	p. 328
JDBC 2.0 Core API	p. 328
Using JDBC 2.0 Core API fundamentals	p. 329
JDBC 2.0 Standard Extension API	p. 331
Data sources and connection pools	p. 331
TYPE mappings	p. 334
Error processing	p. 335
Transaction control	p. 336
Basic broker/mapping architecture	p. 337
The Data perspective	p. 338
Exercise	p. 345
Test yourself	p. 353
Key terms	p. 353
Review questions	p. 353
Deploying applications	p. 355
What deployment is	p. 355
Remote server deployment from WebSphere Studio	p. 357
Command line server administration	p. 358
Classpath, classloaders, and module dependencies	p. 359
Classloaders in WebSphere	p. 360
Module dependencies and utility JAR files	p. 360
Exercises	p. 361
Creating a remote server and server configuration	p. 362
Creating the data source	p. 367
Testing the application running on the remote server in WebSphere Studio	p. 370
Starting the remote server outside WebSphere Studio	p. 374
Testing the application running on the remote server	p. 377
Test yourself	p. 377
Key terms	p. 377
Review questions	p. 378
End-of-chapter questions and answers	p. 379
Index	p. 409
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