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Conclusion

Finally!...The end of the course. Hopefully you aren't too frazzled at this point. Ready for the final? Hah! Gotcha! You've done plenty of work in the class and at this point a final for this online class isn't really applicable, so instead, you get a brief thanks and goodbye from me.

Realistically, you've skimmed topics that could each have (and may actually have) their own course in:

In addition, we've actually just started to cover the basics in Servlets/JSP. What you've seen so far is the original basis for what is out on the web now. Of course, most of what you presently see is not built directly with these technologies, instead it is using tools and techniques built on top of Servlets/JSP pages to make large web sites more maintainable and easier to develop.

We only touched on GUIs, and even then, just covered Java. You probably have heard of things like Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, etc. that are commonly used with web applications. Again, we can only cover so much in one class!

You've had a quick intro to the world of web services, but it is still a rapidly developing area with many different answers available to a developer. But as promised, we did cover the following:

  1. Design and create a basic HTML that uses the following:
    1. Basic HTML tags
    2. Tables
    3. Cascading Style Sheets
    4. Frames
  2. Validate an HTML page for proper format
  3. Design and create a basic XHTML document
  4. Design and code a Java application that can include the following technologies
    1. AWT/Java2D graphics
    2. Frames
    3. Basic Swing Components
    4. Event Handling
    5. Exceptions
  5. Be able to describe and use Object Oriented programming methods, including inheritance and interfaces
    1. Compare the advantages between classes and interfaces
  6. Design and code a Java Applet
  7. Design and code a Java Web Start Application
  8. Compare the differences between Applets, Web Start and Java Applications
  9. Understand the use of Java I/O and design a simple client/server application
  10. Design and code a simple Servlet
  11. Be able to describe and use multi-threading in Java
  12. Design and code a simple JSP page
  13. Describe and use JDBC
  14. Describe and use RMI
  15. Describe and use a simple Web Service
  16. Be able to compare and contrast different programming methods related to Distributed Development on the World Wide web.

I'd like to thank you for taking the course. Since this is the first time this course has been given online, please feel free to email any comments/suggestions you might have for improvements. I'd particularly like comments regarding how helpful the reading assignments were, and how applicable you felt they were.

Bob Evans