Web Application Development

Objectives :

• To understand the basic principles of Web Application Development and to the related architectures
• To get some basic knowledge on Component Based Software Development
• To get competencies on Java based technologies related to Web application development and on Web Framework
• To experiment problems related to Web application deployment and performance in Cloud based environments

Lectures

1 - Introduction on Web application development

• Support de cours Servlet

2 - Introduction to Servlet and JSP

• Support de cours JSP

3 - Introduction to JSF

• Support de cours JSF
• Tutoriaux JSF - CoreServlet

Source code

• Les sources des exemples du cours (projet NetBeans)
• Ressources sur AJAX

References

• JavaEE
• Tutorial Visual Web JSF avec Netbeans

Practicals

We will use NetBeans 6.7 as an IDE, Glassfish v2 as a Web Server and Derby as a Relational Database

• TP du 26/2 et 3/3
  • TP initiation
  • TP JSF
• Project

Resources

• Visual JSF Pour le 29/04
• getting started with javaee6 screencast

A series on JSF 1.2

• Introduction to JavaServer Faces 1.2
• Validating and Converting User Input With JavaServer Faces 1.2
• Working With Form Tags in JavaServer Faces 1.2

JSF Resources

A lot of resources on JSF

Web Frameworks

GWT Tutorial

• JSF
• Struts 2
• Seams
• WebWork
• Tapestry
• GWT
• Spring WebFlow

NoSQL DB

• MongoDB

Clouds

• Amazon Web Services
• Cloudbees
• Google AppEngine
• Heroku

Load Generator and performance metering

• JMeter

Project Assignement

The goal of the project will be to implement a small web application using a Web Framework. A presentation of the result and of its realisation within a specific framework will be done at the end. The application will be deployed in a Cloud infrastructure and its behavior under different kind of load will be evaluated

The goal of the application is to allow users to manage and share lists. ListGeeks is an example of such a service.

Functionnalities

• Create a user account/Manage the user profile/Allow to link the profile to an oauth service like facebook or google.
• Create a private list. A list is an ordered set of value. It can be used to store and order list about anything.
• Add items to the list.
• Change the order of the items in the list
• Give access to the list to other users
• Give rights to update the list to other users
• Remove items from the list
• Revoke users access to the list
• Vote for the list
• Post the list to Twitter

You will provide a REST Api for your application.

You will use the database of your choice to store the data

You will deploy your application on a PaaS