Private JEE Study Group

Welcome to our private sudy site which we began creating at a time when our roles and especially skill sets appeared at a cross-roads. We once worked on the NetWare core operating system kernel or on its JVM implementation. Our C and assembly skills are no longer enough to see us through the next phase of life, so this initiative has been launched to correct that. We’ve chosen JEE over .NET for the moment because it seems more promisingly portable.

This site was originally named “J2EE” before that term yielded to simply “JEE.”

“Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) defines the standard for developing component-based multitier enterprise applications. J2EE simplifies building enterprise applications that are portable, scalable, and that integrate easily with legacy applications and data. J2EE is also a platform for building and using web services. It incorporates web services standards such as those in the WS-I Basic Profile. This means that web services in a J2EE-compliant environment can interoperate with web services in non-J2EE environments such as .NET.”

This site hosts all the materials of the study group except for the on-line discussion group—no longer available. However, as principal, I have continued this site’s development. If you would like to contribute materially to this site’s content, please contact Russell Bateman for user, password, etc. to get into the web server directories and post content.

The icons at the top-right of this page are quick links for the study group arranged more or less in order of introduction in the materials (see syllabus).

Note: Throughout this material, images sometimes occur in reduced sizes, but which, if clicked on, link to full-size displays of themselves. However, some browsers scale even the full-size image alone on the resulting page if the window being used isn’t at least as big as the image wants to be.

Fundamental study group links

Java™ is central to this initiative. We have other resources too; most in the form of links here and throughout the syllabus.

Russ’ Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Tutorial, published by the Eclipse community.
Russ’ Companion notes on Eclipse, Tomcat and JSF
Russ’ Companion notes on Eclipse Data Tools Platform
Russ’ Tutorial on Eclipse and JDBC
Russ’ emerging Tutorial on JARs and Eclipse Build Path
Russ’ NetBeans Tutorial, version of Russ’ Eclipse WTP tutorial.
NetBeans’ 6.x Web Tutorial Status where you can find tutorials and what version of NetBeans they were written for (many are made up-to-date).
Sun Microsystem’s The J2EE 1.4 Tutorial.
Some Java terminology by our study group.
Sun’s Java tutorial.
Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition, (free).
Bruce Eckel’s blog page, author of Thinking in C++, Java, etc.
Tips on debugging Tomcat remotely from Eclipse.
Less formal tips on debugging remotely from Eclipse.

Syllabus

1. Database

	MySQL set-up and a small JDBC application
	Database terminology
	JDBC application assignments

2. Web Presentation Technologies

	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
	JavaScript
	Parameters from HTML forms
	Presentation assignments

3. Development Tools

	Interactive development environment (IDE)
	Ant and Maven
	Directory structure for development and deployment
	The definitive list of development and deployment tools

4. Servlets

	Tomcat install
	Servlets
	Model-control-view
	Servlet assignments

5. JavaServer Pages

	JavaServer Pages (JSP)
	J avaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
	JSP assignments

6. JavaServer Faces (JSF)

Technology

Obliquely related goodies...

Eclipse key mappings
W3 Schools, a university of tutorials on everything web...
PHP tutorials...
- W3 Schools PHP Tutorial
- PHP Buddy Tutorial
UML tutorials...

Java docs in CHM

Bruce Eckel’s Thinking in Java, Edition 3


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