web applications and basics

web applications and basics:

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HTML:

ü              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:

^ü             The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative,  hypermedia information systems.

ü             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.

ü       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.

ü     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.

ü     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?

ü     An obvious but still accurate definition of a web application is that it is an application is accessible from the web!

ü      A common example of a web application is a web site that provides free e-mail service.

ü      It offers all the features of an e-mail client such as outlook express but is completely web based.

ü     A key benefit of web applications is the case with which the users can access the applications.

ü     All a user needs is a browser there is nothing else to be installed on the user’s machine.

ü  This increases the reach of the applications tremendously while alleviating versioning and upgrading issues. 

ü  a web applications is built of web components that perform specific tasks and are able to expose their services over the web.

ü  all of these components coordinate with one another and provide a complete set of services users.

Active and passive resources:

ü  one way of categorizing web resources is that they are either passive or active.

ü    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.

ü    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.

ü    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.

ü  a passive resources is also called a static resource since its contents do not change with requests.

ü  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.

ü  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:

ü  a web application resides in a web application server (or application server)

ü  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: