Homework Assignments

1. Fill out the course Information Form (Due: Monday 9/10)
   NOTE: If you are on GMU's campus, the above URL will work just fine. However, if you are off-campus, you will need to establish a VPN link first. Instructions and software to download can be obtained from http://labs.ite.gmu.edu/reference/ITE-vpn.htm. (For security reasons, port 8080 is disabled except for GMU students and faculty.)
   Supply the URL that you will use in future assignments (for example, http://mason.gmu.edu/~user/ ).
   Creating a web page on mason
2. User interface evaluation (Due: Monday 9/17)
   FTP instructions
   A free HTML editor
3. Web site evaluation (Due: Monday 9/24)
4. Web site design (Due: Monday 10/9)
5. HTML Entry Form (Due: Monday 10/15)
   Please see the JavaScript debugging hints
6. PHP (Due: Monday 10/22)
   ITE Hermes cluster info
   PHP deploying instructions
7. Simple Java program (Due: Monday 10/29)
   Introduction to eclipse handout
8. First Java servlet (Due: 11/12)
   Please see the servlet deployment instructions for our application server.
   Please see the installation notes for installing Tomcat on your PC.
   FTP instructions
9. Second Java servlet (Due: 11/19)
10. Java Server Page (Due: 11/26 11/30)
    Please see the JSP installation instructions and JSP debugging hints.
11. Access control security (Due: 12/7)

Local Instructions

• Accessing the Java 2 compiler on osf1.gmu.edu.
• Installing the jEdit Java editor.
• Java Servlet deployment notes for our server.
• Tomcat installation notes for installing Tomcat on your PC.
• FTP instructions.
• FireFTP : An FTP client for Mozilla Firefox
• Java program with embedded HTML download notes for our server.
• JSP and Java Beans installation notes for our server.
• JSP debugging hints.

Web HTML References

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Tutorials on HTML and more
• Web Authoring: Forms
• Online check for 508 compliance
• Department of Justice's questionnaire for web page disability access
• Composing Good HTML
• Testing HTML
• Colors (chart)
• Another color palette, Lynda Weinman
• W3C's current HTML recommendation
• W3C's XML-based HTML
• Style Sheets
• Guide to CSS tags
• W3C's cascading style sheets home page
• W3C's Core Styles for style sheets
• Steve Mulder's Webmonkey Stylesheets Tutorial
• Style sheet reference guide, Eric Meyer, includes platform issues
• History
• Web history
• A Brief History of the Internet
• All About the Internet
• The History of the Internet
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.1
• JavaScripts
• JavaScript tutorial
• ECMA-262 Specifications: Client-site scripting Basis for JavaScript

Some Useful Handouts

• How to create a web page on mason: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/create9.htm
• Etiquette for Sending Email
• Advice on Professors
• Advice on Homework
• Unix Made Easy (PDF)
• VI Made Less Difficult
• VI Quick Reference (HTML) (PDF)
• VIM: Vi IMproved
• VIM: Reference Guide

Java Development References

• Northern VA Java Users Group
• Forte for Java
• Sun's Java tutorials and short courses
• Java Guru -- questions and answers
• An article on and a list of native code compilers
• Apache' Jakarta Project: Ant (Java-based build tool)
• Apache' Jakarta Project: ORO Regular expression classes (Perl5 compatible and AWK-like)
• Apache' Jakarta Project: Regexp Regular expression package
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) Specfication 1.1
  Describes the programming environment provided by standard implementations of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. In conjunction with the Servlet API Specification (see below), this document describes what a portable API page is allowed to contain. Specific information on scripting (Chapter 4), tag extensions (Chapter 5), and packaging JSP pages (Appendix C) is useful. The Javadoc API Documentation is included with the Tomcat download.
• Java Servlet API Specification 2.2
  Describes the programming environment that must be provided by all servlet containers conforming to this specification. In particular, you will need this document to understand the web application directory structure and deployment file.
• Sun BluePrints (tm) Design Guidelines for J2EE
  Comprehensive advice and examples on application design for the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform, which includes servlets and JSP pages. The chapters on servlet and JSP design are useful even when your application does not require other J2EE platform components.
• Java Servlet JavaDoc
• Java XML Downloads and Specifications (JAXP)

Web Server References

• Apache Tomcat Java servlet container

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