web applications and basics:
HTML:
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HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that
can be displayed in a web browser.
HTTP:
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia
information systems.
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HTTP is the foundation of data communication for
the World Wide Web.
Web container:
Web container (also known as a Servlet container) is
the component of a web server that interacts with Java servlets.
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A web container is responsible for managing the
lifecycle of servlets, mapping an URL to a particular servlet and ensuring that
the URL requester has the correct access rights.
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A web container implements the web component
contract of the Java EE architecture, specifying a runtime environment for web
components that includes security, concurrency, lifecycle management, transaction,
deployment, and other services.
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A web container provides the same services as a JSP
container as well as a federated view of the Java EE platform APIs.
What is a web applications?
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An obvious but still accurate definition of a
web application is that it is an application is accessible from the web!
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A common example of a web application is a web
site that provides free e-mail service.
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It offers all the features of an e-mail client
such as outlook express but is completely web based.
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A key benefit of web applications is the case
with which the users can access the applications.
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All a user needs is a browser there is nothing
else to be installed on the user’s machine.
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This increases the reach of the applications
tremendously while alleviating versioning and upgrading issues.
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a web applications is built of web components
that perform specific tasks and are able to expose their services over the web.
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all of these components coordinate with one
another and provide a complete set of services users.
Active and passive resources:
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one way of categorizing web resources is that
they are either passive or active.
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a resources is passive when it does not have any
processing of its own active objects have their own processing capabilities.
for example when a browser sends a request for www.myserver.com/myfile.html.
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The web server at my server.com looks for the
myfile.html file, a passive resources,
and return it to the browser. Similarly when a browser sends a request
for www.myserver.com/report servlet,the web server at myserver.com forwards the
request to report servlet, an active resources.
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The servlet generates the html text on the fly
and gives it to the web server.
The web server ,in turn forwards it to the
browser.
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a passive resources is also called a static
resource since its contents do not change with requests.
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a web application is usually a mixture of active
and passive resources. But it is the presence of the active resources that make
web applications nearly as interactive as normal applications.
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Active resources in web applications typically
provide dynamic content to users and enable them to execute business logic via
their browsers.
Web application and the web application
server:
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a web application resides in a web application
server (or application server)
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the application server provides the web
application with easy and managed access to the resources of the system.
Ex of Common template web technologies:
Servlet technologies: