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Web Technologies A Computer Science Perspective

by: Jackson, Jeffrey C.

Web Technologies A Computer Science Perspective

by: Jackson, Jeffrey C.

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9780131856035
ISBN 10:
0131856030
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/17/2006
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

"Web Technologies illuminates the fundamental principles and technologies of the World Wide Web, helping students master contemporary Web development and understand emerging Web innovations."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface

Purpose and Scope

Features

xii

Textbook Plan and Course Sequences

xiii

Source Files

xiv

Acknowledgments

xiv

CHAPTER 1 Web Essentials: Clients, Servers, and Communication

(55)

1.1 The Internet

(3)

1.2 Basic Internet Protocols

(5)

1.2.1 TCP/IP

(3)

1.2.2 UDP, DNS, and Domain Names

(1)

1.2.3 Higher-Level Protocols

(1)

1.3 The World Wide Web

(3)

1.3.1 Hypertext Transport Protocol

(2)

1.4 HTTP Request Message

(5)

1.4.1 Overall Structure

(1)

1.4.2 HTTP Version

(1)

1.4.3 Request-URI

(1)

1.4.4 Request Method

(1)

1.4.5 Header Fields and MIME Types

(2)

1.5 HTTP Response Message

(6)

1.5.1 Response Status Line

(2)

1.5.2 Response Header Fields

(1)

1.5.3 Cache Control

(1)

1.5.4 Character Sets

(2)

1.6 Web Clients

(7)

1.6.1 Basic Browser Functions

(1)

1.6.2 URLs

(2)

1.6.3 User-Controllable Features

(2)

1.6.4 Additional Functionality

(1)

1.7 Web Servers

(16)

1.7.1 Server Features

(1)

1.7.2 Server History

(1)

1.7.3 Server Configuration and Tuning

(4)

1.7.4 Defining Virtual Hosts

(3)

1.7.5 Logging

(3)

1.7.6 Access Control

(2)

1.7.7 Secure Servers

(2)

1.8 Case Study

(1)

1.9 References

(2)

Exercises

(7)

CHAPTER 2 Markup Languages: XHTML 1.0

(65)

2.1 An Introduction to HTML

(3)

2.2 HTML's History and Versions

(5)

2.2.1 The "War" Years

(2)

2.2.2 The Clean-up Effort

(3)

2.3 Basic XHTML Syntax and Semantics

(8)

2.3.1 Document Type Declaration

(1)

2.3.2 White Space in Character Data

(2)

2.3.3 Unrecognized Elements and Attributes

(1)

2.3.4 Special Characters

(2)

2.3.5 Attributes

(2)

2.4 Some Fundamental HTML Elements

(9)

2.4.1 Headings: h1 and Friends

(1)

2.4.2 Spacing: pre and br

(2)

2.4.3 Formatting Text Phrases: span, strong, tt , etc.

(1)

2.4.4 Horizontal Rule: hr

(1)

2.4.5 Images: The img Element

(2)

2.4.6 Links: The a Element

(1)

2.4.7 Comments

(1)

2.4.8 Nesting Elements

(1)

2.5 Relative URLs

(2)

2.6 Lists

(2)

2.7 Tables

(4)

2.8 Frames

(2)

2.9 Forms

(7)

2.10 Defining XHTML's Abstract Syntax: XML

(8)

2.10.1 Element Type Declarations

(2)

2.10.2 Attribute List Declarations

101

(3)

2.10.3 Entity Declarations

104

(1)

2.10.4 DTD Files

105

(1)

2.11 Creating HTML Documents

106

(1)

2.12 Case Study

107

(5)

2.13 References

112

(1)

Exercises

113

(8)

CHAPTER 3 Style Sheets: CSS

121

(71)

3.1 Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

121

(2)

3.2 Cascading Style Sheet Features

123

(2)

3.3 CSS Core Syntax

125

(7)

3.3.1 Selector Strings

126

(5)

3.3.2 At-Rules

131

(1)

3.4 Style Sheets and HTML

132

(1)

3.5 Style Rule Cascading and Inheritance

133

(7)

3.5.1 Rule Cascading

133

(4)

3.5.2 Style Inheritance

137

(3)

3.6 Text Properties

140

(11)

3.6.1 Font Families

141

(2)

3.6.2 Length Specifications in CSS

143

(3)

3.6.3 Font Properties

146

(1)

3.6.4 Line Boxes

147

(2)

3.6.5 Text Formatting and Color

149

(2)

3.7 CSS Box Model

151

(6)

3.7.1 Basic Concepts and Properties

151

(3)

3.7.2 Box Model Shorthand Properties

154

(3)

3.7.3 Background Colors and Images

157

(1)

3.8 Normal Flow Box Layout

157

(12)

3.8.1 Basic Box Layout

158

(2)

3.8.2 The display Property

160

(2)

3.8.3 Margin Collapse

162

(1)

3.8.4 Block Box Width and Height

162

(4)

3.8.5 Simple Inline Boxes

166

(2)

3.8.6 Nested Inline Boxes

168

(1)

3.9 Beyond the Normal Flow

169

(7)

3.9.1 Properties for Positioning

169

(1)

3.9.2 Relative Positioning

170

(1)

3.9.3 Float Positioning

171

(1)

3.9.4 Absolute Positioning

172

(2)

3.9.5 Positioning-Related Properties

174

(2)

3.10 Some Other Useful Style Properties

176

(1)

3.10.1 Lists

176

(1)

3.10.2 Tables

176

(1)

3.10.3 Cursor Styles

177

(1)

3.11 Case Study

177

(6)

3.12 References

183

(1)

Exercises

183

(9)

CHAPTER 4 Client-Side Programming: The JavaScript™ Language

192

(57)

4.1 History and Versions of JavaScript

192

(1)

4.2 Introduction to JavaScript

193

(1)

4.3 JavaScript in Perspective

194

(4)

4.3.1 Scripting Languages

195

(1)

4.3.2 Writing and Testing JavaScript Programs

196

(2)

4.4 Basic Syntax

198

(2)

4.5 Variables and Data Types

200

(3)

4.6 Statements

203

(1)

4.7 Operators

204

(4)

4.7.1 Precedence

205

(1)

4.7.2 Type Conversion

206

(1)

4.7.3 Bit Operators

207

(1)

4.8 Literals

208

(1)

4.9 Functions

209

(3)

4.10 Objects

212

(12)

4.10.1 Object Properties

212

(2)

4.10.2 Enumerating Properties

214

(1)

4.10.3 Array Notation

214

(1)

4.10.4 Object References

215

(2)

4.10.5 Methods

217

(3)

4.10.6 Constructors

220

(1)

4.10.7 Example: Binary Tree

221

(3)

4.11 Arrays

224

(4)

4.11.1 Creating an Array

225

(1)

4.11.2 Dynamically Changing Array Length

226

(1)

4.11.3 Array Methods

226

(2)

4.12 Built-in Objects

228

(9)

4.12.1 The Global Object (window)

228

(1)

4.12.2 String, Number, and Boolean

229

(2)

4.12.3 Date

231

(1)

4.12.4 Math

232

(1)

4.12.5 RegExp

233

(4)

4.13 JavaScript Debuggers

237

(3)

4.14 References

240

(1)

Exercises

240

(9)

CHAPTER 5 Host Objects: Browsers and the DOM

249

(58)

5.1 Introduction to the Document Object Model

249

(2)

5.2 DOM History and Levels

251

(6)

5.3 Intrinsic Event Handling

257

5.4 Modifying Element Style

254

(3)

5.5 The Document Tree

257

(11)

5.5.1 Node Objects

258

(3)

5.5.2 Example: List Reordering

261

(1)

5.5.3 The document Node

262

(1)

5.5.4 Element Nodes

263

(1)

5.5.5 Text Nodes

264

(1)

5.5.6 Example: Collapsible Elements

264

(4)

5.5.7 HTML Convenience Properties

268

(1)

5.6 DOM Event Handling

268

(14)

5.6.1 The Event Object and Event Listeners

268

(1)

5.6.2 Mouse Events

269

(4)

5.6.3 Window-Level Events

273

(1)

5.6.4 Event Propagation

273

(2)

5.6.5 Example: Dropdown Menus

275

(5)

5.6.6 Event Canceling and Form Validation

280

(1)

5.6.7 Generating Events

281

(1)

5.7 Accommodating Noncompliant Browsers

282

(7)

5.7.1 Detecting Host Objects

283

(1)

5.7.2 IE6 Details

284

(5)

5.8 Additional Properties of window

289

(5)

5.9 Case Study

294

(6)

5.10 References

300

(1)

Exercises

300

(7)

CHAPTER 6 Server-Side Programming: Java Servlets

307

(57)

6.1 Servlet Architecture Overview

307

(2)

6.2 A "Hello World!" Servlet

309

(2)

6.3 Servlets Generating Dynamic Content

311

(2)

6.4 Servlet Life Cycle

313

(1)

6.5 Parameter Data

314

(8)

6.5.1 Parameter Data and Query Strings

314

(2)

6.5.2 Servlets and Parameter Data

316

(3)

6.5.3 Forms and Parameter Data

319

(3)

6.6 Sessions

322

(7)

6.6.1 Creating a Session

322

(1)

6.6.2 Storing and Retrieving Attributes

323

(4)

6.6.3 Session Termination

327

(2)

6.7 Cookies

329

(3)

6.8 URL Rewriting

332

(2)

6.9 Other Servlet Capabilities

334

(4)

6.9.1 Additional HttpServletRequest Methods

334

(1)

6.9.2 Additional HttpServletResponse Methods

334

(4)

6.9.3 Support for Other HTTP Methods

338

(1)

6.10 Data Storage

338

(1)

6.11 Servlets and Concurrency

339

(11)

6.11.1 Concurrency in Web Servers

339

(1)

6.11.2 Threads

340

(2)

6.11.3 Threading Issues

342

(1)

6.11.4 Thread Synchronization

342

(3)

6.11.5 Servlet Synchronization

345

(5)

6.11.6 Summary and Concluding Remarks

350

(1)

6.12 Case Study

350

(6)

6.13 Related Technologies

356

(2)

6.14 References

358

(1)

Exercises

358

(6)

CHAPTER 7 Representing Web Data: XML

364

(68)

7.1 XML Documents and Vocabularies

364

(5)

7.2 XML Versions and the XML Declaration

369

(1)

7.3 XML Namespaces

370

(3)

7.4 JavaScript and XML: Ajax

373

(5)

7.5 DOM-Based XML Processing

378

(5)

7.6 Event-oriented Parsing: SAX

383

(7)

7.7 Transforming XML Documents

390

(6)

7.7.1 Transforming between XML Representations

390

(3)

7.7.2 Introduction to XSL

393

(1)

7.7.3 XSL Component Overview

394

(2)

7.8 Selecting XML Data: XPath

396

(6)

7.8.1 Location Paths

396

(3)

7.8.2 Location Paths with Multiple Steps

399

(1)

7.8.3 Absolute and Relative Location Paths

400

(1)

7.8.4 Combining Node Lists

401

(1)

7.8.5 Function Calls as XPath Expressions

401

(1)

7.9 Template-based Transformation: XSLT

402

(15)

7.9.1 "Hello World!" Revisited

402

(3)

7.9.2 Recursive Template Processing

405

(4)

7.9.3 Generating Result Tree Content

409

(6)

7.9.4 XML Result Document Formatting

415

(2)

7.10 Displaying XML Documents in Browsers

417

(2)

7.11 Case Study

419

(6)

7.12 Related Technologies

425

(1)

7.13 References

426

(1)

Exercises

426

(6)

CHAPTER 8 Separating Programming and Presentation: JSP™ Technology

432

(54)

8.1 Introduction to JavaServer Pages

433

(2)

8.2 JSP and Servlets

435

(3)

8.3 Running JSP Applications

438

(8)

8.3.1 Web Applications

438

(1)

8.3.2 Installing a Web Application

439

(3)

8.3.3 Defining Web Application Parameters

442

(4)

8.4 Basic JSP

446

(11)

8.4.1 JSP Expression Language (EL)

447

(3)

8.4.2 JSP Markup

450

(2)

8.4.3 JSTL Core Actions

452

(5)

8.5 JavaBeans Classes and JSP

457

(6)

8.5.1 JavaBeans Technology Basics

457

(3)

8.5.2 Instantiating Bean Objects

460

(2)

8.5.3 Using JavaBeans Objects

462

(1)

8.5.4 Getters/Setters on Nonbean Objects

463

(1)

8.6 Tag Libraries and Files

463

(3)

8.7 Support for the Model-View-Controller Paradigm

466

(6)

8.7.1 MVC Basics

466

(1)

8.7.2 Servlet Request Dispatching

467

(4)

8.7.3 JSP Actions Supporting MVC

471

(1)

8.8 Case Study

472

(7)

8.9 Related Technologies

479

(2)

8.9.1 JSP Pages with Scriptlets

479

(1)

8.9.2 Active Server Pages and ASP.NET

480

(1)

8.9.3 PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

480

(1)

8.9.4 ColdFusion®

481

(1)

8.10 References

481

(1)

Exercises

481

(5)

CHAPTER 9 Web Services: JAX-RPC, WSDL, XML Schema, and SOAP

486

(44)

9.1 Web Service Concepts

486

(5)

9.2 Writing a Java Web Service

491

(6)

9.2.1 Currency Conversion Service

491

(1)

9.2.2 Writing Server Software

491

(1)

9.2.3 Packaging Server Software

492

(5)

9.3 Writing a Java Web Service Client

497

(5)

9.4 Describing Web Services: WSDL

502

(6)

9.5 Representing Data Types: XML Schema

508

(9)

9.5.1 Built-In Data Types

509

(2)

9.5.2 XML Schemas

511

(1)

9.5.3 User-Defined Simple Types

512

(2)

9.5.4 User-Defined Complex Types

514

(2)

9.5.5 XML Schema within Instance Documents

516

(1)

9.6 Communicating Object Data: SOAP

517

(7)

9.6.1 SOAP Elements

517

(1)

9.6.2 RPC Representation

518

(3)

9.6.3 SOAP Encoding of Struct Data

521

(1)

9.6.4 SOAP Encoding of Arrays

522

(1)

9.6.5 SOAP and HTTP

523

(1)

9.6.6 Java Support for SOAP

524

(1)

9.7 Related Technologies

524

(1)

9.8 References

525

(1)

Exercises

526

(4)

APPENDICES

530

(21)

APPENDIX A Software Installation

530

(9)

A.1 System Basics

530

(2)

A.1.1 Command Prompt

530

(1)

A.1.2 Environment Variables

531

(1)

A.1.3 File Paths

531

(1)

A.2 Browser Software

532

(1)

A.3 Java

532

(2)

A.3.1 Determining Your Java Version

532

(1)

A.3.2 Installing the Java SDK

533

(1)

A.4 Web Server and XML Processing Tools

534

(5)

A.4.1 Installing JWSDP 1.3

534

(1)

A.4.2 Postinstallation Tasks

535

(2)

A.4.3 Running the Tomcat Server

537

(2)

APPENDIX B Storing Java Objects as Files

539

(6)

B.1 Serializable Objects

539

(1)

B.2 Reading and Writing Serializable Objects in Java

540

(1)

B.3 Supporting Object Evolution

541

(1)

B.4 Case Study

542

(3)

APPENDIX C Databases and Java Servlets

545

(6)

C.1 JDBC Drivers

545

(4)

C.1.1 Connecting Locally to MS Access

546

(2)

C.1.2 Connecting to MySQL

548

(1)

C.2 JDBC Database Access

549

(2)

Bibliography

551

(6)

Index

557

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Web Technologies A Computer Science Perspective

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0131856030

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