Getting Started with Web Applications - The Java EE 6 Tutorial, Volume I

Document Information

Part I Introduction

2. Using the Tutorial Examples

Part II The Web Tier

3. Getting Started with Web Applications

Web Applications

Web Application Life Cycle

Packaging Web Modules

Deploying a WAR File

Setting the Context Root

Deploying a Packaged Web Module

Testing Deployed Web Modules

Listing Deployed Web Modules

Updating Web Modules

Updating a Packaged Web Module

Dynamic Reloading

Undeploying Web Modules

Configuring Web Applications

Mapping URLs to Web Components

Setting the Component Alias

Declaring Welcome Files

Setting Initialization Parameters

Mapping Errors to Error Screens

Declaring Resource References

Declaring a Reference to a Resource

Declaring a Reference to a Web Service

Duke's Bookstore Examples

Accessing Databases from Web Applications

Populating the Example Database

Creating a Data Source in the Enterprise Server

Further Information about Web Applications

4. Java Servlet Technology

5. JavaServer Faces Technology

6. Introduction to Facelets

7. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages

8. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology

9. Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications

Part III Web Services

10. Introduction to Web Services

11. Building Web Services with JAX-WS

12. Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

Part IV Enterprise Beans

13. Enterprise Beans

14. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans

15. Running the Enterprise Bean Examples

Part V Persistence

16. Introduction to the Java Persistence API

17. Running the Persistence Examples

18. The Java Persistence Query Language

Part VI Security

19. Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform

20. Using Java EE Security

21. Securing Java EE Applications

22. Securing Web Applications

Part VII Java EE Supporting Technologies

23. Introduction to Java EE Supporting Technologies

24. Transactions

25. Resource Connections

Chapter 3

Getting Started with Web Applications

Note - This chapter needs additional updating for Java EE 6. Although the basic tenets are true and the examples do work, there needs to be a much stronger focus on JavaServer Faces and Facelets and less of a focus on JavaServer Pages.

A web application is a dynamic extension of a web or application server. There are two types of web applications:

Presentation-oriented: A presentation-oriented web application generates interactive web pages containing various types of markup language (HTML, XHTML, XML, and so on) and dynamic content in response to requests. Chapter 4, Java Servlet Technology through Chapter 9, Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications cover how to develop presentation-oriented web applications.
Service-oriented: A service-oriented web application implements the endpoint of a web service. Presentation-oriented applications are often clients of service-oriented web applications. Chapter 11, Building Web Services with JAX-WSand Chapter 12, Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jerseycover how to develop service-oriented web applications.

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