Homework Assignments

1. Fill out the Information Form (Due: Thursday 9/13/2007)
   Provide background information and post an HTML page.
   Here's a site that will give you details in putting a page on osf1: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/create9.htm
2. HTML/JavaScript page (Due: Thursday 9/20/2007)
   Build a form to populate your online recipe box. Check for data errors using JavaScript.
3. First Java servlet program (Due: Thursday 10/4)
   Please see the servlet deployment instructions for the new SWE642 Server.
   Please see the installation notes for installing Tomcat on your PC.
4. Working with XML (Due: Thursday 10/18)
   Please see the notes on parsing XML problems.
5. Homework 5 - A User-Friendly Servlet (Due: Thursday 11/1). To upload your files, you might want to try the "Apache FileUploader" or the "O'Reilly File Upload" classes. The Apache files are in the apps-swe642 "lib" directory.
   
6. Homework 6 - Your first JSP (Due: Thursday 11/15)
7. Homework 7 - Security Dispatcher (Due: Thursday 1/6)

Local Instructions

• Accessing the Java 2 compiler on osf1.gmu.edu
• Installing the jEdit Java editor.
• Here's a page on servlet deployment for the new SWE642 Server.
• Tomcat installation notes for installing Tomcat on your PC.
• JRun installation notes for installing JRun on your PC.
• FTP instructions.
• Java program with embedded HTML download notes for hermes.gmu.edu.
• JSP and Java Beans installation notes for hermes.gmu.edu.
• JSP debugging hints.

  Web HTML References

  • The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • Beginner's Guide to HTML
  • Tutorials on HTML and more
  • HTML Quick Reference (including forms)
  • An Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms
  • Department of Justice's questionnaire for web page disability access
  • Composing Good HTML
  • Testing HTML
  • Colors (chart)
  • Another color palette, Lynda Weinman
  • W3C's current HTML recommendation
  • W3C's XML-based HTML
  • Style Sheets
  • Guide to CSS tags
  • W3C's cascading style sheets home page
  • W3C's Core Styles for style sheets
  • Steve Mulder's Webmonkey Stylesheets Tutorial
  • Style sheet reference guide, Eric Meyer, includes platform issues
  • History
  • Web history
  • History of the Internet
  • JavaScripts
  • JavaScript tutorial
  • ECMA-262 Specifications: Client-site scripting Basis for JavaScript

  XML References

  • XMLSpy

  Some Useful Handouts

  • How to create a web page on mason: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/create9.htm
  • VIM: Vi IMproved
  • VIM: Reference Guide

  Java Development References

  • Java Boutique Tutorials
  • Forte for Java
  • Sun's Java tutorials and short courses
  • Java Guru -- questions and answers
  • An article on and a list of native code compilers
  • Apache' Jakarta Project: Ant (Java-based build tool)
  • Apache' Jakarta Project: ORO Regular expression classes (Perl5 compatible and AWK-like)
  • Apache' Jakarta Project: Regexp Regular expression package
  • JavaServer Pages (JSP) Specfication 1.1
    Describes the programming environment provided by standard implementations of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. In conjunction with the Servlet API Specification (see below), this document describes what a portable API page is allowed to contain. Specific information on scripting (Chapter 4), tag extensions (Chapter 5), and packaging JSP pages (Appendix C) is useful. The Javadoc API Documentation is included with the Tomcat download.
  • Java Servlet API Specification 2.2
    Describes the programming environment that must be provided by all servlet containers conforming to this specification. In particular, you will need this document to understand the web application directory structure and deployment file.
  • Sun BluePrints (tm) Design Guidelines for J2EE
    Comprehensive advice and examples on application design for the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform, which includes servlets and JSP pages. The chapters on servlet and JSP design are useful even when your application does not require other J2EE platform components.
  • Java Servlet JavaDoc
  • Java XML Downloads and Specifications (JAXP)

  Web Server References

  • Apache Tomcat Java servlet container

  Web Software Engineering Books

  1. The primary textbook for the course is:
     Professional Java Server Programming, Patzer et al., Wrox Press, J2EE edition, 2000. Amazon
  2. There are two recommended books for HTML and Java.
     • HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, 4th ed., Castro, Peachpit Press. Amazon
     • Java 2: The Complete Reference, 3rd ed., Naughton and Schildt, Osborne/McGraw Hill. Amazon
  3. Other good web Software Engineering books:
     • Beginning Java Objects, Jacquie Barker, Wrox Press)
     • Thinking in Java, Bruce Eckel. Free electronic book.
     • Web Style Guide by Lynch and Horton (Yale University Press)
     • The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (Addison Wesley)
     • Web Site Engineering: Beyond Web Page Design (Powell, Prentice Hall)
     • Enterprise JavaBeans (O'Reilly)
     • Developing Java Beans (O'Reilly)
     • Webmaster in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
     • Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O'Reilly)
     • XML and Java - Developing Web Applications (Addison Wesley)
     • Web Data Management and Electronic Commerce (CRC Press)
     • A Java GUI Programmer's Primer (Prentice Hall)
     • Core Web Programming (Prentice Hall)
     • Java Servlet Programming (O'Reilly)
     • Internet and World Wide Web: How to Program (Prentice Hall)
     • Mastering JavaScript and JScript, James Jaworski, 1999, (Mass Market Paperback), ISBN 0-7821-2492-5