• The requirements of a web application
• Components of an n-tier architecture

• Integrating servlets into the web application architecture
• Configuring the servlet development environment
• Avoiding common servlet pitfalls

• Servlet life cycle methods
• Accessing servlet environment variables

• Adding text fields and drop-down lists
• Retrieving form data in the servlet

• Connecting to the database
• Submitting SQL statements
• Retrieving and processing data

• Constructing an HTML table
• Adding drill-down features

• Retrieving cookies from a client request
• Sending cookies to the client
• Circumventing cookie limitations

• Creating a unique session for each user
• Storing and retrieving Java objects within sessions
• Controlling a session's life span
• Creating application and session event listeners
• Implementing a shopping cart

• Servlets
• JSP
• XML

• Using JSP scriptlets, expressions and declarations
• Communicating with the client using built-in JSPserver objects
• Leveraging the JSP 2 Expression Language (EL)

State management with JSP

• Accessing cookies and sessions
• Storing common application data

• Promoting object reuse
• Separating application logic from the presentation

• Forwarding Java objects to JSP
• Using JavaBeans to transfer data
• Servlet and JSP design patterns

• The role of JSP custom tags
• Applying the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

• Creating custom tags with JSP 2 tag files
• Customizing tag behavior with attributes

• Identifying the JSF core components
• Managing application flow using JSF navigation model

• Developing back beans
• Creating views with JSF custom tags