Remote Method Invocation

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  There will be true/false and essay questions.
  
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  You need to be familiar with the class assignments.
  

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  Remote Method Invocation
  
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    Major steps in creating a distributed system with RMI
    
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    Defining and implementing the remote interface
    
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    Defining and implementing the client
    
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    Compile, code placement and execution
    
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    Problems that we may face while trying to compile and execute a RMI based program. Including the problems we faced (or I explained) in the lab and how we solve them.
    
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    You may be ask to write a small program to show how RMI works
    

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  Java Database Connectivity
  
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    SQL basic syntax
    
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    Basics of Relational database model including operations such as join and projection
    
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    Using SQL to merge data from multiple tables
    
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    How to connect to databases, query, and display results
    
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    What are the drivers used for Oracle and Access connection
    
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    Be able to write a simple program to connect to a Oracle or Access database and do some queries
    

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  Servlets
  
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    What are the server side and the client side tools provided by Java?
    
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    What protocol is used for servlets?
    
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    How does servlet work? Overall view of the mechanism
    
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    Servlet Interface
    
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    What are the 2 major abstract classes that implement Servlet interface? What are the major methods and what do they do?
    
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    What is the main responsibility of “service” method?
    
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    How do doGet and doPost methods are called? What are Get and Post methods?
    
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    Know the main capabilities (methods) of HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse
    
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    What are the main steps we take for the deployment of our servlets?
    
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    What are the available tools for session tracking?
    
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    How do Session and Cookies work?
    
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    What are the possible problems we may face in running servlets and cookies?
    
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    What are Multitier applications? Describe a three tier application that uses servlet and JDBC technologies? What are the possible problems that we may face running such tree tier application?
    

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  JSP & Beans
  
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    Describe JSP architecture
    
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    What are the steps required for a JSP request?
    
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    Why use JSP? And compare JSP to Servlet
    
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    What are the main tags of JSP (five different types of tags)? Describe each one
    
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    What are the main types of directive tags? You need to know “page” and “include” directives
    
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    How do you set up an errorPage?
    
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    What are the action tags and how does Dynamic JSP Include work?
    
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    Write a “counter” JSP program similar to the example in the slides.
    
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    What are some of the important implicit objects available for JSP?
    
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    What is the logic behind using JavaBeans? Know the basics of bean implementation
    

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  JavaScript Study Guide (examples of what you might see in the exam)
  

Q: How do you add JavaScript to HTML? Provide an example.

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