December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1170 pages
28h 4m
English
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Chapter 24. Web Applications
CHAPTER GOALS
To understand the web application concept
To learn the syntactical elements of the JavaServer Faces web application framework
To learn about navigation in web applications
To build three-tier web applications
Web applications are a new type of software that has become very important in recent years. Applications for a wide variety of purposes, such as e-mail, banking, shopping, and playing games, run on servers and interact with users through a web browser. Developing web-based user interfaces is more complex and challenging than writing graphical user interfaces. Until recently, only primitive technologies (such as Java servlets) were available for this purpose. Fortunately, more capable frameworks for web programming have emerged that are roughly analogous to the Swing framework for client-side user interface programming. In this chapter, you will learn how to write web applications using the JavaServer Faces (JSF) framework.
The Architecture of a Web Application
A web application is an application whose user interface is displayed in a web browser. The application program resides on the web server. The user fills out form elements and clicks on buttons and links. The user inputs are transmitted over the Internet to the server, and the server program updates the web page that the user sees (see Figure 1).
The browser sends information to the server using the HTTP protocol that was described in Sections 21.2 and 21.5. The server responds by sending ...
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