Java Web Development Basics

Java Web Development Basics course at SoftUni - Java EE - Jan 2019

Projects

1. HTML and CSS

• Lab - simple tasks

• SoftUni Beers - simple multi-page app

2. HTTP Protocol and State Management - simple parsing and constructing of HTTP requests and responses, implemented in a funny way :)

• HTTP parser

• Cookies parser

3. Java EE - finally something more advanced :)

• Fluffy Duffy Munchkin Cats - servlets, servlet context as storage, custom HTML templating, HTML & CSS only, use of static resources

• Chushka - a simple Web application with Servlets and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE. The most important part was the configuration (described in details at the link). Highlights:

  • JTA enabled EntityManager
  • Enum with AttributeConverter
  • Lombok - deal with code noise in POJOs
  • Creating beans of external classes by @Produces annotation
  • Access to resource files by relative path
  • Custom HTML templating

• Me Tube - A simple Web application with Servlets, JSP and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE. Details provided at the link. Highlights:

  • JTA enabled EntityManager
  • Use of NamedQueries in repositories for retrieving data
  • Lombok - deal with code noise in POJOs
  • Creating beans of external classes by @Produces annotation
  • Access static resources in JSP files
  • Basic JSP templating
  • Bind model from request parameters in Filter (using Reflection)
  • Service methods used for retrieving data accept desired return data type (ViewModel)

• Workshop Me Tube Extended - Refactoring, new functionality:

  • CRUD repository, extensive use of Generics for type safety, Optional<>, logging
  • Exported common service logic to base class, Generics
  • Use of Jargon2 for password hashing

• Employee Register - Simple single page web application with JSF and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE.

  • Same setup as in Me Tube Extended
  • PrimeFaces

• Fluffy Duffy Munchkin Cats v2 - Simple 3-page web application with JSF and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE.

  • Same setup as in Employee Register
  • datatables - advanced interaction controls to HTML tables - JavaScript
  • Restrict access to server resources and data - web.xml
  • Activate JSF 2.3 by annotation - ApplicationConfig
  • Routing with rewrite using HttpConfigurationProvider class
  • Date converter for parsing input strings
  • Simple JSF templating

4. Exam preparations:

• Sboj.gb - Simple multi-page 2-entities web application with JSF and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE.
  • Same setup as in Fluffy Duffy Munchkin Cats v2
  • Static resources caching by filter
  • Static resources compression using OmniFaces, setup in web.xml

5. Final exam (24/02/2019):

• EXODIA - Simple multi-page 2-entities web application with JSF and Hibernate, deployed on TomEE.
  • Same setup as in Sboj.gb
  • Convert Markdown data to PDF format with Markdown2Pdf
  • Build of PDF file and download by client