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Advanced Java: Internet Applications Third EditionBook Development ProposalArt Gittleman California State University, Long Beach Introduction The authors propose to draft an all-new third edition of the book: Advanced Java: Internet Applications with a new look, philosophical bent, and completely updated coverage of the latest Java APIs. Philosophy / Approach Extreme Programming (XP), Test-centered-design, and practical software development techniques using professional development tools will be strongly stressed in the book. Read the source, Luke. There are literally MILLIONS of lines of well-documented, open-source Java software available on the Internet. It seems prudent to leverage this trove of riches and encourage our students early on to download, read, and learn from well-written application software. To facilitate what might be a very unfamiliar process to many prospective consumers of this book; we have taken the liberty to include full source code for the Open-source Jetty JSP/Servlet web container along with a chapter in the Appendix that gives an architectural overview of the application. LJade One of the most frequently cited frustrations with the previous editions of Advanced Java: Internet Applications was the difficulty in obtaining and successfully installing the correct versions of the Sun Java SDK and other tools. We propose a novel solution to this problem. Our Linux Java Application Development Environment (LJADE) is a complete, stand-alone, CD-ROM-based software development environment. A student can insert the LJADE CD into any modern IBM-compatible PC and boot into a RAM-based software development environment (no local installation required) that contains all of the tools and utilities described in the text. The distribution is designed to permit students to save their work on a floppy diskette, a USB Flash device, NFS file server, or CVS repository. We plan to provide a web site dedicated to providing peer support to students using LJADE and lab technicians tasked with supporting the environment. The LJade CD ROM is really a revolutionary tool for teaching software development. To the best of our knowledge, there has never been a completely pre-configured, ready-to-run, software development environment provided with ANY text or trade programming book. The benefits to the instructor and students are substantial, for example: a) LJade greatly reduces (or eliminates) the amount work necessary by an instructor or technical staff to configure a lab to support a class based upon the book. b) Student productivity is enhanced by providing a set of high-quality, professional software development tools and detailed instruction in their use. c) Students can work at home (or virtually anywhere else) with the same tool set they use in the lab on their homework assignments. d) Eclipse is hot. It has become the industry standard in Java development in just a few years. Any text that incorporates its use would be perceived as being on the cutting-edge. The elevator pitch AJIE 3rd Edition will be focused on practical development Internet techniques using the Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 platform, combining current commercial practice with appropriately sized doses of Computer Science theory. We will use the Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5, or 5, or Tiger, or whatever it is called, for the basic underlying Java. We intend to make AJIE 3rd edition as accessible to the working professional as the Computer Science student. It is our desire that AJIE 3rd edition be offered to trade in conventional bookstores. Target Audience We expect this book to be used in Junior / Senior level courses in advanced programming technology. Highly-motivated individuals will also find the book to be an excellent guide for self-paced learning in Internet-related Java technologies. In any case, a successful reader of the book should have a minimum of 1-2 years of programming experience in Java and be comfortable writing 100-200 line programs. Chapter Outline for the Third Edition
Objectives and philosophy
Extreme Programming (XP) Why Unit Testing is important Why using a Source code control systems is good for you
Linux/Java development environment CD (LJava) Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment Ant Java build tool Concurrent Version System (CVS) revision control system ,JavaDoc – Documenting your classes jUnit – Unit testing tool/fixture
Understanding the Enterprise Simple Entity-Relationship Modeling Just enough UML Writing a requirements specification
A Web page construction refresher Using the Tomcat JSP / Servlet container Adding dynamism to Web pages with JSP JSP Applied – Building a Blog
The JSP/Servlet connection Improving our Blog with Servlets
What are they and why would you want to use them. The Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) Writing your first Tag Library. Blog revisited – Enhancing our Blog with Tag Libraries
A brief intro to design patterns and software engineering Type 1 vs. Type 2 Web applications Building a Type 2 Web application the hard way Introducing Struts – Type 2 made a bit easier. An Even Better Blog – Rewriting our Blog using Struts
A practical guide to JDBC Using JDBC - Storing our Blog data in a Relational Database
The Lingua Franca of the Internet Entities, Attributes, Schemas and DTDs
What are Web Services and what can I do with them? Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Introducing Apache Axis Adding a Soap interface to our Blog
Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) Making our Blog private – Using JAAS to secure our Blog.
What makes an Enterprise-class application special? n-Tier applications Implementing business logic
Session, Entity, and Message Driven EJBs When NOT to use EJBs Writing a simple Session EJB Persisting application data with Entity Beans
Simplifying EJB development with Xdoclet
Writing a Blog desktop application with Eclipse (SWT) Appendices
Generics, Enumerated Types, Meta Data, and More
An overview of Enterprise-Relationship modeling, Structured Query Language (SQL), and data normalization.
The J2EE reference JSP/Servlet container implementation
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