Learning Objectives for Web Forms, Servlets, JSP and MVC

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to

1. Describe the different types of basic web form components.
2. Generate a web page with input forms of various types
3. Describe what a web container is, and the services it provides
4. Describe a Servlet life cycle
5. Describe how a Servlet fits in a web container
6. Code a Simple Servlet
   1. Text output
   2. HTML output
7. Debug Servlets
8. Extract form submission information from a Servlet Request
9. Manipulate Header and Response structures
10. Describe and use Cookies
11. Place and use information in an HTTP Session.
12. Explain the differences between JSP and Servlets
13. Describe components of a JSP page
    1. JSP expressions
    2. JSP Scriptlets
    3. JSP declarations
    4. JSP directives
14. Locate and view the Servlets generated by JSP pages and understand the connection between the two.
15. Construct JSP pages which include content from other JSP pages
16. Define and use Java Beans in web pages
17. Understand the connection between Java Beans and the generated Servlet code
18. Access form parameters from JSP pages
19. Describe and contrast the different scope options for Java Beans
20. Describe how the MVC architecture applies to Servlets/JSP pages