Customized Advanced Servlet and JSP Training Courses

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Here are the potential topics covered in the advanced servlet and JSP course taught by Marty Hall.
If you have a group of at least eight interested developers (10 for courses outside the US or Canada),
contact Marty to arrange a course at your location. If you have fewer developers, see the public Struts and Advanced JSP training course page for info on the open-enrollment version in Maryland.

Please note that topics can be added or removed to fit the interest and experience of your developers,
and topics from this course can be combined with topics from other related J2EE courses.

For example, some organizations want to mix some of the intermediate topics with these more advanced topics.

Still others want to cover only a few of the advanced topics and then move on to Struts or JSF.
However, the syllabus below gives an idea of the most popular option.

Syllabus

Using and Deploying Web Applications

Purpose of Web applications
Structure of Web applications
Setting up Web applications with Tomcat
Giving custom addresses to servlets
Sharing data among Web applications

Controlling Web Application Behavior with web.xml

Location and purpose of web.xml
Custom URLs
Initialization parameters
Preloading pages
Welcome pages
Error pages

Declarative Web Application Security

Major security concerns
Declarative vs. programmatic security
Using form-based authentication
Using BASIC authentication

Programmatic Security

Problems with declarative security
Combination security: mixing server-managed and servlet-managed (programmatic) security
Pure programmatic security

Servlet and JSP Filters

Filter basics
Accessing the servlet context
Using initialization parameters
Blocking responses
Modifying responses

Web Application Lifecyle Listeners

Reason for listeners
Monitoring creation and destruction of the servlet context
Detecting changes in servlet context attributes
Recognizing session creation and destruction
Watching for changes in session attributes
Combining activities

Creating Custom JSP Tag Libraries: The Basics

Java-based tags
- Components of a tag library
- Basic tags
- Tags that use body content
- Tags that optionally use body content
JSP-based tags (tag files)
- Components of a tag library
- Basic tags
- Tags that use attributes
- Tags that use body content