Intro

* Why use Servlets and JSPs: an introduction
* Web app architecture: high-level overview
* Mini MVC tutorial: hands-on MVC app
* Being a Servlet: request and response
* Being a web app: attributes and listeners
* Conversational state: bean/entity synchronization
* Being a JSP: writing JSP code
* Script-free pages : writing scriptless JSPs
* Custom tags are powerful : using JSTL
* When JSTL is not enough : custom tag development
* Deploying your web app : web app deployment

Our JSF tutorial comes with free source code and configuration files that makes JSF learning easy and fast. You can download all the codes in easy to use zip format from our website. In our JSF tutorials we will describe you how to implement all theoretical concepts of JSF in developing robust  JSF web application.

Since childhood Java has meant a lot of things to me, at first having been brought up on an endless supply of Luis L'amour western paper backs Java was the cup of brew over which cowboys swapped trail lore in the wild wild west, throwing the dredges of Java into the camp fire was the ultimate symbol of machismo. Then one graduated to the edge of the seat thrillers by Alistair McLean and java was part of the title of one of his unputdownable chiller "South by Java Head", in the World War classics Java was part of the exotic South East consisting of Java and Sumatra.

This IBM Redbook provides design guidelines for developing e-business applications based on servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technologies. The guidelines are based on WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition. The redbook describes the concepts of workload balancing through the use of a network dispatcher and clones of the Application Server. This book proposes a design of Web applications based on design patterns, such as the model-view-controller paradigm and the command framework.

table of contents
Chapter 1: An Overview of Servlet and JSP Technology
Chapter 2: Server Setup and Configuration
Chapter 3: Servlet Basics
Chapter 4: Handling the Client Request: Form Data
Chapter 5: Handling the Client Request: HTTP Request Headers
Chapter 6: Generating the Server Response: HTTP Status Codes
Chapter 7: Generating the Server Response: HTTP Response Headers
Chapter 8: Handling Cookies
Chapter 9: Session Tracking
Chapter 10: Overview of JSP Technology
Chapter 11: Invoking Java Code with JSP Scripting Elements

Following is a guide to installing and configuring Apache Tomcat 6 for use as a standalone Web server (for development) that supports servlets 2.5 and JSP 2.1. (Note: Apache Tomcat is sometimes referred to as "Jakarta Tomcat" since the Apache Java effort is known as "The Jakarta Project"). This Tomcat tutorial covers version 6.0.10, but the steps are almost the same for any Tomcat 6.0.x version. For coverage of Tomcat 5.5, see the separate Tomcat 5.5 tutorial. For coverage of very old Tomcat versions (Tomcat 5.0.x and Tomcat 4.0.x), please see the Apache Tomcat 5.0 and 4.0 tutorial.

The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) is a collection of custom tag libraries that implement general-purpose functionality common to Web applications, including iteration and conditionalization, data management formatting, manipulation of XML, and database access. In this first installment of his new series on developerWorks, software engineer Mark Kolb shows you how to use JSTL tags to avoid using scripting elements in your JSP pages. You'll also learn how to simplify software maintenance by removing source code from the presentation layer.