Java Servlet Programming
Java Servlet Programming By Jason Hunter
With William Crawford
November 1998
Pages: 526

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. History of Web Applications

    2. Support for Servlets

    3. The Power of Servlets

  2. Chapter 2 HTTP Servlet Basics

    1. HTTP Basics

    2. The Servlet API

    3. Page Generation

    4. Server-Side Includes

    5. Servlet Chaining and Filters

    6. JavaServer Pages

    7. Moving On

  3. Chapter 3 The Servlet Life Cycle

    1. The Servlet Alternative

    2. Servlet Reloading

    3. Init and Destroy

    4. Single-Thread Model

    5. Background Processing

    6. Last Modified Times

  4. Chapter 4 Retrieving Information

    1. Initialization Parameters

    2. The Server

    3. The Client

    4. The Request

  5. Chapter 5 Sending HTML Information

    1. The Structure of a Response

    2. Sending a Normal Response

    3. Using Persistent Connections

    4. HTML Generation

    5. Status Codes

    6. HTTP Headers

    7. When Things Go Wrong

  6. Chapter 6 Sending Multimedia Content

    1. Images

    2. Compressed Content

    3. Server Push

  7. Chapter 7 Session Tracking

    1. User Authorization

    2. Hidden Form Fields

    3. URL Rewriting

    4. Persistent Cookies

    5. The Session Tracking API

  8. Chapter 8 Security

    1. HTTP Authentication

    2. Digital Certificates

    3. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

    4. Running Servlets Securely

  9. Chapter 9 Database Connectivity

    1. Relational Databases

    2. The JDBC API

    3. Reusing Database Objects

    4. Transactions

    5. Advanced JDBC Techniques

  10. Chapter 10 Applet-Servlet Communication

    1. Communication Options

    2. Daytime Server

    3. Chat Server

  11. Chapter 11 Interservlet Communication

    1. Servlet Manipulation

    2. Servlet Reuse

    3. Servlet Collaboration

    4. Recap

  12. Chapter 12 Internationalization

    1. Western European Languages

    2. Conforming to Local Customs

    3. Non-Western European Languages

    4. Multiple Languages

    5. Dynamic Language Negotiation

    6. HTML Forms

    7. Receiving Multilingual Input

  13. Chapter 13 Odds and Ends

    1. Parsing Parameters

    2. Sending Email

    3. Using Regular Expressions

    4. Executing Programs

    5. Using Native Methods

    6. Acting as an RMI Client

    7. Debugging

    8. Performance Tuning

  1. Appendix A Servlet API Quick Reference

  2. Appendix B HTTP Servlet API Quick Reference

  3. Appendix C HTTP Status Codes

  4. Appendix D Character Entities

  5. Appendix E Charsets

  6. Colophon

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