CSCI 4900/6900 -- Web programming

Maymester 2001

Topics for Test 2

• The terms from  Lecture 1 , including HTML tags used
• Client-side vs. server-side scripting
• Javascript vs. VBscript
• Object syntax, eg. document.frm.userFirstName.value
• The Navigator objects (page 82) -- know their general contents and their implementation as part of the client platform
• redirection using the location object or the META tag
• use of forms to contain input items
• the GET and POST methods, and the action attribute
• Event handlers
• variable declaration in VBScript vs. JavaScript

Java Server Programs (JSP)

• Jakarta Tomcat -- where it comes from and what is its role in the process
• Java beans as persistent, portable objects
• How the usebean and setProperty directives automate the process of collecting user input
• Embedded scripting -- mixing HTML and the scripting language
• The three scripting tags <!, <=, and <%
• The JSP engine in action, as shown in Figure 1-2 from the Sun tutorial
• How a Java bean is used to store the user's name in the "Hello, user" example
• Why a red-black tree is used in the E-mail address book example, and how persistent storage affects the functionality of this application
• What it means to call the red-black tree class a map
• Exception handling in the E-mail address book example

XML and XSLT

• XML vs. HTML; the Semantic Web
• domains and ontologies
• the XML design goals from W3C
• the "oldjoke" example and how a Document Type Declaration (DTD) is used
• XSL translations and the separation of content from formatting
• XML parsing and document generation

ASP Components

• The AdRotator example -- how it works, and how it fits into the component model
• The CDONTS component

ASP Database access

• Relational databases: tables, records, and fields
• SQL
• ODBC: drivers and dataset names
• The ADO database model
• The connection and recordset objects
• Opening a connection using only the DSN
• Opening a connection using the driver and filename
• Retrieving all the records from a given table
• Retrieving records which satisfy a specific criterion via the SQL SELECT statement
• Traversing the recordset and using fields from each record to fill out a table

• How the Apache web server incorporates PHP functionality
• PHP as an embedded scripting language
• The C-like syntax of PHP
• Variable declaration
• Associative arrays
• The date-related functions getdate() and mktime()