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Web Applications Basics
Introduction to Web
• Web features
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Clent/Server
HTTP
HyperText Markup Language
URL addresses
• Web server - a computer program that is
responsible for accepting HTTP requests from
clients and serving them HTTP responses
• Web application - a dynamic extension of a web
or application server
Web Applications & Components
• Two types of web applications:
• Presentation-oriented (HTML, XML pages)
• Service-oriented (Web services)
• Web components provide the dynamic
extension capabilities for a web server:
• Java servlets
• JSP pages
• Web service endpoints
Web Application Interaction
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[client] sends an HTTP request to the web server
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[web server] HTTP request  HTTPServletRequest
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This object is delivered to a web component, which can
interact with JavaBeans or a DB to generate dynamic
content
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[web component] generates an HTTPServletResponse or
pass the request to another web component
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[web server] HTTPServletResponse  HTTP response
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[web server] returns HTTP response to the client
Web Application Interaction
Web Components
• Servlets - Java classes that dynamically process
requests and construct responses
• JSP pages - text-based documents that execute as
servlets but allow a more natural approach to
creating static content
• Appropriate usage
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Servlets - service-oriented applications, control
functions
JSP - generating text-based markup
(HTML, SVG, WML, XML)
Java Web Application Technologies
Java Servlet technology is the foundation of all
the web application technologies
Web Containers
• Web components are supported by the services of
a runtime platform called a web container
• In J2EE, a web container "implements the web
component contract of the J2EE architecture“
• Web container services:
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request dispatching
security
concurrency
life-cycle management
naming, transactions, email APIs
Web Container Examples
• Non-commercial
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Apache Tomcat
Jetty
• Commertial
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Sun Java System Application Server
BEA WebLogic Server
Oracle Application Server
WebSphere
• Open source
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JBoss
Deployment
• Web components have to be installed or
deployed to the web container
• Aspects of web application behaviour can
be configured during application
deployment
• The configuration information is
maintained in a XML file called a web
application deployment descriptor
Web Application Development
• A web application consists of:
• Web components
• Static resource files (such as images)
• Helper classes and libraries
• The process for creating and running a web
application is different from that of
traditional stand-alone Java classes
Development Cycle
1. Develop the web component code
2. Develop the web application deployment
descriptor
3. Compile the web application components and
helper classes referenced by the components
4. Optionally package the application into a
deployable unit
5. Deploy the application into a web container
6. Access a URL that references the web
application
Web Modules
• According to Java EE architecture and Java
Servlet Specification:
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Web components and static web content files
such as images are called web resources
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A web module is the smallest deployable and
usable unit of web resources
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Web module corresponds to a web application
• A web module has a specific structure
Web Module Structure
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The top-level directory
of a web module is the
document root of
the application
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The document root contains:
• JSP pages
• client-side classes
• client-side archives
• static web resources
Web Module Structure
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The document root contains
a subdirectory /WEB-INF/
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web.xml: web application
deployment descriptor
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lib: JAR archives of
libraries called by
server-side classes
Web Module Structure
• classes: server-side classes:
• servlets
• utility classes
• JavaBeans components
• tags: tag files, which are
implementations of
tag libraries
Configuring Web Applications
• Web applications are configured via
/WEB-INF/web.xml file
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Map URLs to web components
Set initialization parameters
Map errors to error screens
Declare welcome files
Declare resource references
Mapping URLs to Web Components
• When a request is received by the web container
it must determine which web component should
handle the request
• Need to add a servlet definition and a servlet
mapping for each servlet to web.xml file
<servlet>
<servlet-name>ServletName</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>ServletClass</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ServletName</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/path</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Initialization Parameters
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It's possible to pass initialization parameters to the context
or to a web component
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Context parameters:
<context-param>
<param-name>name</param-name>
<param-value>value</param-value>
</context-param>
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Servlet parameters (within servlet definition):
<init-param>
<param-name>name</param-name>
<param-value>value</param-value>
</init-param>
Handling Errors
• Web container generates default error page
• You can specify custom default page to be
displayed instead
• Steps to handle errors
• Create appropriate error html pages for error
conditions
• Modify the web.xml accordingly
Example: Setting Error Pages
<error-page>
<exception-type>
exception.BookNotFoundException
</exception-type>
<location>/errorpage1.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<exception-type>
exception.BooksNotFoundException
</exception-type>
<location>/errorpage2.html</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<exception-type>
exception.OrderException
</exception-type>
<location>/errorpage3.html</location>
</error-page>
Example: web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN“
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<display-name>Your team project name</display-name>
<description>Team N servlets</description>
<context-param>
<param-name>name_of_context_initialization_parameter</param-name>
<param-value>value_of_context_initializtion_parameter</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>YourServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>YourServletClass</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>YourServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/YourServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
WAR Files
• A web module can be deployed as an
unpacked file structure or can be packaged
in a JAR file known as a Web Archive File
• WAR file can be created by:
• executing jar command
• using Ant target
• using IDE (Eclipse for instance)
• using Maven
Setting a Context Root
• A context root identifies a web application
in a Java EE server
• The server is responsible for mapping
URL’s that start with a specific prefix to the
location of a web application
• Usually this is done with a web server
configuration file
Using Maven & Jetty
• A convenient way to develop, build, deploy
and run Web application is by using:
• Maven build tool
http://maven.apache.org/
• Jetty web server
http://www.mortbay.org/
Creating Directory Structure
• Maven 2 supports the notion of creating a
complete project template with a simple
command
• To create Web project template need to use
maven-archetype-webapp archetype
mvn archetype:create
-DgroupId=com.maven2example
-DartifactId=maven2example_webapp
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
Maven Web Directory Structure
<root>/src/main/webapp/
- directory structure for a WAR
Packaging
• Executing the command
mvn package
creates a WAR file
Running with Jetty
• It’s easy to run application by using Jetty
plugin for Maven
• Jetty is an open-source, standards-based,
full-featured web server implemented
entirely in Java
• First created in 1995
• Latest version 6.1.5 / July 23, 2007
Running with Jetty
• Add the Jetty plugin to the pom.xml
<build>
<finalName>maven2example_webapp</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.0.1</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Running with Jetty
• Execute mvn jetty:run command
>mvn jetty:run
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'jetty'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------[INFO] Building maven2example_webapp Maven Webapp
[INFO]
task-segment: [jetty:run]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------...
[INFO] Starting jetty 6.0.1 ...
...
[INFO] Started Jetty Server
• Stop by Ctrl+C
Opening the Application
Open your web browser to
http://localhost:8080/
Opening the Application
Valid URL is
http://localhost:8080/maven2example_webapp/
Resources
• J2EE Tutorial “Getting Started with Web
applications”
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc
/bnadr.html
• Building Web Applications with Maven 2
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/03/01/b
uilding-web-applications-with-maven-2.html
• Filmiņa par Web 2 (5 minūtes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE