Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)

Course details

Learn how to build dynamic web pages using servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). This course starts with the basics, covering the fundamentals of servlets. Instructor Ketkee Aryamane explains how to set up your environment, and discusses GET and POST requests, as well as forwarding and redirection. She then moves on to JSP, reviewing fundamental concepts such as the JSP life cycle. She also covers session management, filters, and listeners. To wrap up, she goes over the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) core module and fmt module, and also discusses the development of custom tags.

Learning objectives
Reviewing the purpose of servlets
Implementing a GET request in a web app
POST request basics
Forwarding, redirection, and other APIs
Servlet life cycle
Reviewing JSP and its features
Session management
Filters and Listeners
Using expression language in JSP
Need for JSTL and its modules

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Overview and Setup

04 - Understanding the purpose of servlets
05 - Environment setup - Create a web project
06 - Environment setup - Deploy and run
07 - Alternative setups
08 - Project application setup

2. Servlet Basics - GET

09 - Types of HTTP requests
10 - Implementing a GET request in a web app
11 - Search - Setting up a database connection
12 - Search - Querying the database
13 - Search - Building a servlet response

3. Servlet Basics - POST

14 - POST request basics
15 - Register user - Collecting form data and calling DAO
16 - Register user - Querying database and building response
17 - Register user - Behind the scenes

4. Forwarding, Redirection, and Other APIs

18 - Understanding forwarding
19 - Understanding redirection
20 - Using ServletConfig
21 - Using ServletContext
22 - Using request response objects
23 - Scopes and parameters vs. attributes

5. Servlet Life Cycle

24 - Understanding the servlet life cycle
25 - Using the servlet life cycle

6. JSP Fundamentals

26 - Understanding JSP and its features
27 - JSP elements - Scriptlet, declaration, and expression
28 - JSP elements - Scriptlet and expression
29 - JSP elements - Declaration
30 - Understanding the JSP life cycle
31 - JSP directives - Page
32 - JSP directives - Include and taglib
33 - Understanding implicit objects in JSP

7. Session Management

34 - Understanding the need for session management
35 - Cookies for session management
36 - Using cookies
37 - URL rewriting for session management
38 - Using URL rewriting
39 - Consuming session APIs in a web app

8. Filters and Listeners

40 - Understanding the need for filters in a web app
41 - Filters - User validation in a servlet
42 - Filters - Display error and set up filter class
43 - Filters - Implement filter logic
44 - Understanding the need for listeners in a web app
45 - Using listeners in a web app

9. JSP Standard Actions and Expression Language

46 - Understanding the advent of standard actions
47 - JSP standard actions - Querying database
48 - JSP standard actions - Displaying data
49 - Expression language
50 - Using expression language in JSP
51 - Using implicit objects of expression language

10. JSTL and Custom Tag Library

52 - Need for JSTL and its modules
53 - Core module - Querying database
54 - Core module - Displaying data
55 - FMT module
56 - Custom tag library
57 - Custom tag - Define tag handler and TLD
58 - Custom tag - Use tag on JSP

Conclusion

59 - Next steps