WebSphere application server : express V5.0.2 developer handbook / Carla Sadtler et al.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadtler, Carla.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Bogers, Justin.

Borkar, Shailen.

Firtiyan, Andri.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client/server computing.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (680 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Notice

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Getting started

1.1 What is IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express V5

1.1.1 WebSphere Studio Site Developer

1.1.2 Express Application Server

1.1.3 Database support

1.1.4 CVS server

1.1.5 Web server

1.1.6 Testing and deploying applications

1.1.7 Roles and responsibilities

1.2 Information road map

1.3 Bringing up Studio Site Developer for the first time

1.3.1 WebSphere Application Server - Express examples

1.3.2 Installing an example application

1.3.3 Using application templates

1.4 The Online Catalog sample

1.4.1 Sample application overview

1.4.2 Sample database

Chapter 2. Application design

2.1 Design considerations

2.1.1 System model for e-business applications

2.1.2 IBM Patterns for e-business

2.2 Modeling an application

2.2.1 Use-case analysis

2.3 Determine the application-flow architecture

2.3.1 Model 1 architecture

2.3.2 Model 2 architecture

2.3.3 MVC architectural pattern

2.4 Reviewing the supporting technologies

2.4.1 JavaScript

2.4.2 Servlets

2.4.3 JavaServer Pages

2.4.4 Tag libraries

2.4.5 XML

2.4.6 Web services

2.4.7 Struts

2.5 Designing the database

2.5.1 Normalization

2.5.2 Indexes

2.5.3 Datatypes

2.5.4 Deriving the data model from the use-case model

2.6 For more information

Chapter 3. Using Studio Site Developer

3.1 The workspace

3.1.1 Recovering files from their local history

3.2 Perspectives

3.2.1 Editors

3.2.2 Using fast views

3.2.3 Customizing perspectives

3.2.4 Setting perspective preferences

3.3 Finding help

Chapter 4. Working with Web applications

4.1 Enterprise application

4.1.1 Enterprise application deployment descriptor.

4.2 Web application

4.2.1 A Web application in an application server

4.3 Working with Web applications

4.3.1 Creating an enterprise application

4.3.2 Creating a Web project

4.3.3 Web project directory structure

4.3.4 Application templates

Chapter 5. Working with HTML

5.1 HTML support in Studio Site Developer

5.1.1 Using the Web perspective

5.1.2 Editing with the Page Designer

5.1.3 Building applications with Web Site Designer

5.1.4 HTML/XHTML wizard

5.1.5 Using Page templates

5.1.6 Working with framesets

5.1.7 Adding tables, links, text, and images

5.1.8 Working with forms, input fields, and buttons

5.1.9 Working with style sheets

5.1.10 Working with WebArt Designer

5.1.11 Working with animation

5.2 Adding HTML pages to the Online Catalog sample

5.2.1 Creating HTML pages using Web Site Designer

5.2.2 Customizing a page template

5.2.3 Creating HTML pages

Chapter 6. Accessing databases

6.1 Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) overview

6.1.1 Data source versus direct connection

6.2 Working with databases in Studio Site Developer

6.2.1 Using the Data perspective

6.2.2 Creating the database

6.2.3 Connecting Studio Site Developer to the database

6.2.4 Importing and working with the database design

6.2.5 DB output view

6.2.6 Creating Web pages to access the database

6.2.7 Database connections

6.2.8 Defining a resource reference for the data source (optional)

6.2.9 Testing

6.2.10 Building SQL statements using the SQL Query Builder

Chapter 7. Working with servlets

7.1 Servlet overview

7.1.1 A servlet's life cycle

7.1.2 The servlet's environment

7.1.3 Servlets in an enterprise application

7.2 Studio Site Developer and servlets

7.2.1 Wizards

7.2.2 Web perspective

7.2.3 Deployment descriptor editor.

7.3 Using servlets in the Online Catalog sample

7.3.1 Creating a servlet

7.4 References

Chapter 8. Working with JSPs

8.1 JSP overview

8.1.1 JSP execution model

8.1.2 Syntax for coding JavaServer Pages

8.1.3 JSP 1.2 elements

8.2 Building JSP pages with Studio Site Developer

8.2.1 Preferences and properties

8.2.2 Web perspective

8.2.3 JSP wizard

8.3 Using JSPs in the Online Catalog sample

Chapter 9. Using tag libraries

9.1 Custom tag library (taglibs) concepts

9.1.1 Motivation for custom tags

9.1.2 When to use

9.1.3 Common custom tag usages

9.1.4 How they work

9.1.5 An inside look at a taglib

9.1.6 Using tag libraries

9.2 Studio Site Developer and tag libraries

9.2.1 JSP wizard

9.2.2 Using the Insert custom tag dialog

9.2.3 Snippets view

9.2.4 Tag libraries included with Studio Site Developer

9.2.5 Tag libraries used in the example sample applications

9.3 Using a tag library in the Online Catalog sample

9.3.1 Step 1: Creating a JSP

9.3.2 Step 2: Adding a taglib directive

9.3.3 Step 3: Adding the taglib tags

9.3.4 Step 4: Inserting the final code

9.4 For more information

Chapter 10. Working with XML

10.1 XML overview

10.1.1 XML markup

10.1.2 Well-formed XML documents

10.1.3 Document type definitions (DTDs)

10.1.4 Validation

10.1.5 XML namespaces

10.1.6 XML schema

10.1.7 Schema and style using XSLT and XSL

10.1.8 XPath

10.2 Working with XML in Studio Site Developer

10.2.1 The XML perspective

10.2.2 Wizards

10.2.3 Editors

10.2.4 XML sample applications in Studio Site Developer

10.3 Using XML in the Online Catalog sample

10.4 For more information

Chapter 11. Working with Web services

11.1 Web services overview

11.1.1 The concept of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

11.1.2 Web services approach for an SOA architecture

11.1.3 An introduction to SOAP

11.1.4 An introduction to WSDL

11.1.5 Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF)

11.2 Studio Site Developer support for Web services

11.2.1 Web service preferences

11.2.2 Wizards

11.2.3 WSDL editor

11.2.4 Web Services Explorer

11.3 Using Web services in the Online Catalog sample

11.3.1 Locating and consuming a Web service

11.3.2 Integrating the client into your application

11.3.3 For more information

Chapter 12. Using Struts

12.1 Struts overview

12.1.1 Why we use Struts

12.1.2 Struts framework

12.2 Studio Site Developer and Struts

12.2.1 Struts development process

12.2.2 Struts support in a Web project

12.2.3 Setting Struts preferences

12.2.4 Web diagram editor

12.2.5 Wizards

12.2.6 Struts configuration file editor

12.2.7 Struts explorer view

12.2.8 Data Mappings view

12.2.9 Struts validation

12.3 Using Struts in a sample

12.3.1 Adding Struts support to the OnlineCatalog project

12.3.2 Creating a Web diagram

12.3.3 Creating the Web page nodes

12.3.4 Creating the action mapping nodes

12.3.5 Creating connections

12.3.6 Editing the ApplicationResources.properties file

12.3.7 Realizing and editing the Web pages

12.3.8 Creating the form bean

12.3.9 Realizing and editing the action classes

12.3.10 Integrating with the Online Catalog sample template

12.3.11 Understanding the Struts configuration file

Chapter 13. Deploying applications

13.1 Application server overview

13.1.1 Configuration and management

13.1.2 Managing test application servers

13.2 Using the Server tools

13.2.1 Setting preferences for the Server perspective

13.3 Defining servers and server configurations

13.3.1 Server types

13.4 Using the Express test environment.

13.4.1 Creating a server and server configuration

13.4.2 Publishing an application to the test environment

13.4.3 Updating the server configuration for the application

13.4.4 Starting the test environment server

13.4.5 Running the application

13.5 Working with an Express server

13.5.1 Defining the server to Studio Site Developer

13.5.2 Publishing the application

13.5.3 Updating the server configuration for the application

13.5.4 Starting the Express server

13.5.5 Running the application

13.6 Working with server configurations

13.6.1 Classloaders and file location

13.7 Server operations

13.7.1 Starting the server

13.7.2 Stopping the server

13.7.3 Restarting the server

13.8 Deploying applications for production

13.8.1 Exporting an enterprise application to a file location

13.8.2 Exporting an enterprise application using FTP

13.9 IBM Agent Controller settings and status

13.10 For more information

Chapter 14. Testing and debugging

14.1 Debugging in the Web perspective

14.1.1 Page errors

14.1.2 Project navigator view

14.1.3 Tasks view

14.1.4 Editors

14.1.5 Console view

14.2 Debugging using the Debug perspective

14.2.1 Debug perspective

14.3 Stepping through code using the Online Catalog sample

14.3.1 Setting breakpoints

14.3.2 Running the application in debug mode

14.3.3 Verifying the variable

Chapter 15. Development in a team environment

15.1 Team development with CVS

15.1.1 Non-exclusive checkout

15.1.2 Access to resources

15.1.3 Working with resources

15.1.4 Change history

15.1.5 Making changes available to the team

15.1.6 Conflict resolution

15.2 Team environment using Studio Site Developer

15.2.1 Typical flow for team development

15.3 Connecting to a repository

15.4 Adding a new application to the repository.

15.4.1 Sharing the project.

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC:

832261585