6. Getting Started with Web Applications

This chapter introduces web applications, which typically use JavaServer Faces technology and/or Java Servlet technology. A web application is a dynamic extension of a web or application server. Web applications are of the following types:

Image Presentation-oriented: A presentation-oriented web application generates interactive web pages containing various types of markup language (HTML, XHTML, XML, and so on) and dynamic content in response to requests. Development of presentation-oriented web applications is covered in Chapter 7, “JavaServer Faces Technology,” through Chapter 20, “Internationalizing and Localizing ...

Get The Java EE 7 Tutorial: Volume 1, Fifth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.