About the book

Providing an end-to-end view of how modern web applications are built, Dynamic Web Applications takes a cohesive approach to building a software architecture from core components. It tells a development story through a running case study taking you through each phase - analysis, design and implementation - without straying into detail or trying to cover too many alternatives.

Using Java server side frameworks and XML-based page generation with device-adaptive mark-up, this is a contemporary and well targeted coverage of important areas of web application development including Ajax, mobile Internet development, XML transformation, adaptive markup, web services and web application frameworks. It shows you how to build functionality into a website using standard patterns and technologies. These will work as a basic framework from which you will be able to explore more challenging developments such as porting applications to mobile devices and including Web 2.0 features.

An ideal text for web programming courses, this book will help you whether you are a student or need to re-skill and want a dependable and accessible self-study package.

Features

• Covers core building blocks: XHTML, CSS and XSLT; JavaServer Pages, JavaBeans and Tag libraries; Tomcat server, Struts framework and the MySQL relational database; and Web 2.0, Ajax
• Demonstrates good design and good practice
• Provides a standard base installation of open source Java components
• Covers both client and server side technologies
• Covers hot technologies, e.g. Ajax and Web 2.0
• The text is designed to support a unique adaptivity perspective
• The accompanying CD contains a Toolbox featuring Tomcat, Eclipse, Ant, Struts, the JSTL library, WURFL/WALL, MyFaces, MySQL, Xindice.
• Supported by a fully functioning Home Insurance website for illustration, modification and extension, plus all other example code

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Web Applications
2. Web Application Requirements Analysis and Design
3. Structure and Content in the Presentation Layer: The HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
4. Styling in the Presentation Layer: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
5. Content, Structure and Validation: XML, DTD and XHTML
6. Introduction to JavaScript
7. Interactive JavaScript: Dynamic HTML, client side validation and Ajax
8. Transforming XML: XPath and XSLT
9. Using Java for Dynamic Content
10. Using XML and Java together
11. Web Applications and the Database
12. Struts: A Java Web Application Framework
13. The Mobile Web
14. Web Services