17MCA41 Advanced Java Programming syllabus for MCA

Servlet

Servlet Structure, Servlet packaging, HTML building utilities, Lifecycle, SingleThreadModel interface, Handling Client Request: Form Data, Handling Client Request: HTTP Request Headers. Generating server Response: HTTP Status codes, Generating server Response: HTTP Response Headers, Handling Cookies, Session Tracking.

Overview of JSP: JSP Technology, Need of JSP, Benefits of JSP, Advantages of JSP, Basic syntax,

JSP and Controlling the Structure of generated servlets

Invoking java code with JSP scripting elements, creating Template Text, Invoking java code from JSP, Limiting java code in JSP, using jsp expressions, comparing servlets and jsp, writing scriptlets. For example Using Scriptlets to make parts of jsp conditional, using declarations, declaration example. Controlling the Structure of generated servlets: The JSP page directive, import attribute, session attribute, isElignore attribute, buffer and autoflush attributes, info attribute, errorPage and iserrorPage attributes, isThreadSafe Attribute, extends attribute, language attribute, Including files and applets in jsp Pages, using java beans components in JSP documents

Annotations and Java Beans

Creating Packages, Interfaces, JAR files and Annotations. The core java API package, New java.Lang Sub package, Built-in Annotations with examples. Working with Java Beans. Introspection, Customizers, creating java bean, manifest file, Bean Jar file, new bean, adding controls, Bean properties, Simple properties, Design Pattern events, creating bound properties, Bean Methods, Bean an Icon, Bean info class, Persistence, Java Beans API.

Talking to Database, Immediate Solutions, Essential JDBC program, using prepared Statement Object, Interactive SQL tool. JDBC in Action Result sets, Batch updates, Mapping, Basic JDBC data types, Advanced JDBC data types, immediate solutions. Introduction to EJB: The Problem domain, Breakup responsibilities, Code Smart not hard, the Enterprise java bean specification. Components Types.

EJB and Server Side Component Models

Server Side Component Types, Session Beans, MessageDriven Beans, Entity Beans, The Java Persistence Model. Container services. Dependency Injection, Concurrency, Instance pooling n caching, Transactions, security, Timers, Naming and object stores, Interoperability, Life Cycle Callbacks, Interceptors, platform integration. Developing your first EJB. Preparation, Definitions, naming conventions, convention for the Examples, coding the EJB, the contract, the bean Implementation class, out of Container Testing, Integration Testing. Models: The Stateless Session Bean, the Stateful Session Bean, the Singleton SessionBean, Message-Driven Beans. EJB and PERSISTENCE. Persistence Entity manager Mapping Persistence objects, Entity Relationships

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full question consists of 16 marks.
• There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

1. Marty Hall, Larry Brown. Core Servlets and Java Server Pages. Volume 1: Core Technologies. 2nd Edition. (Chapter 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14).

2. Java 6 Programming Black Book, Dreamtech Press. 2012 (Chapter 17,18,19,20,21,22,27,28,29,30).

3. Andrew LeeRubinger, Bill Burke. Developing Enterprise Java Components. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1.O’reilly. (Chapter 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11).

Reference Books:

1. Michael Sikora, EJB 3 Developer Guide, A practical guide for developers and architects to the Enterprise Java Beans Standard, Shroff Publishers & Distributors PVT LTD. July 2008.

2. Herbert Schildt, Java The Complete Reference, 8th Edition. Comprehensive coverage of the Java Language. Tata McGraw-Hill Edition – 2011.