Syllabus for Server Side Java

Instructor:	Dale R. "Zai" Fox, Ph.D.
Office:
Office Hours:	5:00 - 6:00 PM Wednesday other hours by appointment
Phone:	(216)-432-8986
E-mail:	zai.fox@esaighu.net
Text:	I have been working hard to develop a "unified view" of server side scripting. This means I am developing an approach to teaching PHP, JSP or ASP that maximizes the amount of common content across the languages. I have found that with some serious work I have been able to do quite a bit in this direction. But it also means that the last I knew there are no good books on JSP. The truth is the books on JSP tend to be either terribly sophisticated conceptually, requiring the developer to build a lot of their own classes, or they tend to have entirely simplistic examples. I have been working to give realistic examples that impart knowledge and conceptualizations that can traverse the different server side scripting languages. I once tried to teach this course from the following book. Steelman & Murach, Java Servlets and JSPs, Murach Publishing. But I found its examples were terribly simplistic and not at all realistic. I am still searching for other books and have found a book that I consider to be written by someone that is doing practical JSP with MySQL. Turner, MySQL and JSP Web Applications, SAMS Publishing. But his approaches do not port all that well across middleware approaches. But he intelligently develops his own classes/beans to be used. I consider it to be the best practical and reasonable source written in the fairly standard Java genre.
General Content:	The first part of the course will focus on more advanced issues associated with GUI development. The primary focus of the course will be on Servlets and JSPs. We will also work with the JDBC in order to connect to databases in our efforts. I will largely develop some templates that illustrate the major issues.
Evaluation:	- 75% of your grade will be based on homework assignments. All of the problems need be turned in individually. On the other hand, you are expected to work together to develop your solutions. Each homework assignment will be graded on a 100 point scale. They will be due at the beginning of the class period on the day they are due. If you turn a homework assignment in late within a day of the due date you will lose 5 points. If you turn it in late within 3 days of the due date you will lose 10 points. Anything turned in later than 3 days but still within a week will result in an automatic loss of 15 points. Finally, anything more than a week late will result in an automatic loss of 25 points. - 25% of your grade will be based on developing a project to do some computer system performance evaluation. You will want to e-mail your solutions to me by the date and time they are due. Any written discussion should be placed in a Word file and attached/inserted. You will also attach/insert things such as forms and projects to your e-mail.

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Week 1	Work through Installing Tomcat (Chapter 2 of Steelman and Murach) Making Use of jasperations.net Some Background on JSP Pages Making Use of Built In Date/Time Methods
Week 2	Forms and Form Processing A Bit About Form Processing Some Background on Forms in HTML Getting Information from Forms in JSPs The Request Object/Class Some Ancillary Issues
Week 3	A Bit About Threads A Form and Processing Script that has Thread Flaws A Form and Adjusted Processing Script that Deals with the Threads A Bit About Servlets Threads and the Servlets Generated by JSPs A Couple Very Simple Generated Servlets
Week 4	A Bit About Sticky Forms A Sticky Form with Error Checking and Text Boxes Only A Sticky Form with Formatting and Input Validation A Sticky Form That Uses All the Form Controls Homework 2
Week 5	Creating User Defined Methods Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius Formatting the Output of the Temperature Conversion Raising an Integer to an Integer Power Finding the Factorial and Combinations
Week 6	A Bit About Session Variables Session Variables Using Time to Demonstrate Session Persistence Developing Session Level Security for a Website
Week 7	Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Four Main JDBC Classes A User Registration Website A User Registration Website Some MySQL Background Creating the Underlying Tables The HomePage for the User Registration Site
Week 8	Adding Users Displaying Users Deleting Users Modifying Users Homework 3
Week 9	The Admin Browser for the User Registration Website Moving Through the Data Finding a Record Deleting a User
Week 10	Adding a User Modifying a User Implementing Admin Browser Security
Week 11	Java Beans?
Week 12
Finals