Java Web Development Under The Hood

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Module 1

Lecture 1: Course overview

Lecture 2: How to get support while you're taking this course

Chapter 2: Chapter 1 – Introduction

Lecture 1: The role of the webserver

Lecture 2: What are WAR files?

Lecture 3: Building a WAR file

Lecture 4: Deploying a WAR file

Chapter 3: Chapter 2 – Servlets

Lecture 1: What is a dynamic website?

Lecture 2: Introducing the Servlet API

Lecture 3: Loading up the Case Study

Lecture 4: The structure of a servlet

Lecture 5: Writing our first Servlet

Lecture 6: Configuring and running our servlet

Lecture 7: What might go wrong – a look at some frequent problems

Chapter 4: Chapter 3 – Servlet Exercise

Lecture 1: Servlet exercise – instructions

Lecture 2: Servlet exercise – walkthrough

Chapter 5: Chapter 4 – Handling forms

Lecture 1: Creating a simple form

Lecture 2: Creating a servlet to receive the form's data

Lecture 3: Understanding and fixing errors

Chapter 6: Chapter 5 – GET and POST

Lecture 1: The visual difference between GET and POST

Lecture 2: When to use GET

Lecture 3: When to use POST

Lecture 4: Refreshing after a POST

Lecture 5: GET and POST exercise – instructions

Lecture 6: GET and POST exercise – walkthrough

Chapter 7: Chapter 6 – POST-REDIRECT-GET

Lecture 1: The problem with POST

Lecture 2: The POST-REDIRECT-GET pattern

Lecture 3: Implementing POST-REDIRECT-GET

Chapter 8: Chapter 7 – Sessions and Cookies

Lecture 1: The web is stateless

Lecture 2: Introducing cookies

Lecture 3: The challenges of cookies

Lecture 4: Introducing Java Server Sessions

Lecture 5: Implementing Java Server Sessions

Lecture 6: Viewing the session cookie

Lecture 7: Managing abandoned sessions

Lecture 8: Users with cookies disabled

Chapter 9: Chapter 8 – Servlet Security

Lecture 1: Authentication and authorization

Lecture 2: Setting up authorization

Lecture 3: Basic authentication

Lecture 4: Forms based authentication

Chapter 10: Module 2

Lecture 1: Introduction to module 2

Chapter 11: Chapter 1 – Servlet Annotations

Lecture 1: Loading up the case study

Lecture 2: Configuring servlets

Lecture 3: Configuring security

Chapter 12: Chapter 2 – Servlet Filters

Lecture 1: Setting up a simple logging filter

Lecture 2: Changing values with a filter

Chapter 13: Chapter 3 – JSP Introduction

Lecture 1: The need for JSP

Lecture 2: The scriptlet tag

Lecture 3: How JSP works

Chapter 14: Chapter 4 – Further JSP

Lecture 1: Converting servlets to JSP – part 1

Lecture 2: Converting servlets to JSP – part 2

Lecture 3: Using expressions

Lecture 4: Including common content

Chapter 15: Chapter 5 – MVC

Lecture 1: Using servlets and JSP together – the concept

Lecture 2: Implementing servlets and JSP together – editing the servlet

Lecture 3: Implementing servlets and JSP together – editing the JSP page

Lecture 4: The principles of MVC

Lecture 5: MVC exercise – instructions

Lecture 6: MVC exercise – walkthrough

Chapter 16: Chapter 6 – JSTL

Lecture 1: Custom tags

Lecture 2: Using tag libraries

Lecture 3: The out tag

Lecture 4: The forEach tag

Lecture 5: The if tag

Lecture 6: Formatting tags

Chapter 17: Chapter 7 – AJAX

Lecture 1: What is AJAX?

Lecture 2: How Ajax works

Lecture 3: Using AJAX – preparing our project

Lecture 4: AJAX request Javascript

Lecture 5: Responding to an AJAX request

Lecture 6: AJAX callback Javascript

Lecture 7: Using JSON

Chapter 18: Chapter 8 – Asynchronous Servlets

Lecture 1: What is Comet?

Lecture 2: Why asynchronous servlets are needed

Lecture 3: Javascript needed to use asynchronous servlets

Lecture 4: Creating asynchronous servlets – part 1

Lecture 5: Creating asynchronous servlets – part 2

Lecture 6: The problem with asynchronous servlets

Chapter 19: Chapter 9 – Websockets part 1- Server to client

Lecture 1: Preparing the project for websockets

Lecture 2: The Session Handler

Lecture 3: The websocket

Lecture 4: Integrating websockets into our project