Objectives

E-Commerce, thin clients, integration, Java ..: the pressure on database administrators and application developers to put relevant information on the net is increasing. An enormous source of information has become available for everybody. This course gives an overview of the techniques used to put information on the Internet.

At the end of this course the participant is able:

• to distinguish between basic infrastructure and added application environments;
• to identify the different possibilities in order to offer corporate data to the net;
• to describe the (dis)advantages of these techniques;
• to understand the Java EE application model;
• to compare Java EE to Microsofts .Net;
• to understand the issues of evolving toward integrated or business applications on demand.

Main topics

• Basic infrastructure: TCP/IP:
• communication and transport: ip address, routing, subnet, TCP, socket, domain-name, DNS, resolving
• security: ssl(encryption, certificate), firewall techniques, vpn
• applications: smtp, ftp, ssh, telnet, irc
• Basic infrastructure: Web:
• essentials: HTTP, HTML, XML, URL, browser types, browser pecularities, new trends
• HTTP and session: session management, session persistence
• what about security: authentication, authorization
• Web Applications:
• client-server, layers and tiers, backend, gateway
• client side techniques (Java applets, Javascript, Active-X, Plug-ins ..)
• server side:
• CGI, Template Driven CGI (Coldfusion, Net.Data, ..), Web server API's
• Java: Struts, Jsf, ...
• data interfaces: JDBC, SDO, JDO, Hibernate, ...
• Architecture and infrastructure:
• the Java EE architecture
• application server
• comparison to .Net
• Evolving toward Business-applications:
• integration aspects: user - process - data
• business programming - rules
• backend issues: native interface - connector - webservices