Official Description: A study of the international standard
eXtended Markup Language (XML) and related semi-structured data
technologies for application to Web programming. Special
attention will be given to combining data from multiple sites
and on-line data bases, and to the transformation, display, and
extraction of data from XML documents for data exchange,
resource discovery, and the building of interactive web
applications.
More specifically, for 2012: XML parsing, generation, querying, mostly with Java. Web services including RESTful services, implemented with Java.
Professor:
Betty O’Neil (eoneil at cs.umb.edu,)
Class meets TuTh 4:00-5:15 in M-2-419 (changed from MW
4:00)
Office Hours:
TuTh 2:30-3:30, 6:15-6:45 in S/3/169
Prerequistes: Significant Java experience including
use of the Java Collection classes, and one of CS451/651, CS636,
or CS437/637. (or other compiler-related or database application
experience, or CS420 or CS450 or CS430/630)
Syllabus
Textbooks:
1. Mostly for the first part of the term:
Processing XML with Java, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, Addison0Wesley, ISBN 0-201-77186-1. Available free at http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/, but worth paying for in hardcopy (1071 pages!)
2. Mostly for the later part of the term, but has useful intro topics:
REST in Practice, by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, and Ian Robinson, O'Reilly, ISBN 978-0-596-80582-1 (at Amazon)
Recommended
books:
XML 1.1 Bible, 3rd ed., by
Elliotte Rusty Harold, Wiley, 2004, ISBN 0-7645-4986-3. XML from
first priniciples, i.e., more basic than our text. Five chapters
are free online: Chap.
15 on XSL Chap
20 on XML Schemas all
of them
Core Java 2, Volume II--Advanced Features, by Cay
Hortstmann and Gary Cornell, Sun/Prentice Hall, ISBN
0-13-111826-9. This book has a good chapter on JDBC, plus
many other useful Java topics. Get the latest version
(J2SE 5.0.) Volume I is great too, and especially relevant
if you are coming from C/C++ because of its little side notes on
the differences between Java and C++.
Getting Ready:
Check out your development PC: my old PC, a 3Ghz Pentium 4
Windows XP Professional system with 1.5GB of memory, is fine
running the development tools we need. Your system should have
at least 1GB of memory, and Windows XP or Windows 7 (or 8?
untested). See software
development
setup instructions for UNIX and your home PC
First week
(Jan. 28,30):
Get a UNIX account for cs639 by running apply, even if you
already have a UNIX account here. Set up your software
environment for UNIX and your home PC as detailed above in
Getting Ready. Read Chap. 1 of the text to pg. 40,
plus Chap
20
of Harold's XML Bible 1.1 to the section heading
"Complex Types."
Using Putty Tunnels to access ports
of cs.umb.edu systems.
Last year's CS 639 notes, etc.
XML: We are using version 1.0 (5th
ed.) Standard: W3C
Recommendation, (the "XML Standard") referenced in text,
pg. 13
XML Schema: We are using the second edition, with
namespace http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema. W3C primer
Chap
20 of Harold's XML Bible 1.1 XML validator
(Counter), with examples: without namespaces
with
namespaces with namespaces
Survey
of
XML standards
XPath: We are using version 1.0. Standard: W3C
Recommendation (v1.0) XPath processor from JDK (TestXPath)
XPath
tutorial with "lab", interactive XPath processor Harold's
2008
article
JAXP:
Java 6 has version 1.4, based on the Apache Xerces
library JAXP
chapter
in J2EE 1.4 tutorial at Sun
Java6
JAXP/DOM/SAX
compatibility
SAX: Java 6 has version 2.0.2. SAX
chapter
in the J2EE 1.4 tutorial at Sun (not in JEE5 tutorial
at all, or in Java 6 Tutorials either)
DOM: Java 6 supports Level 3 DOM APIs. DOM
chapter
in the J2EE 1.4 tutorial at Sun
HTML,
especially links and forms: Read Basic HTML
tutorial, specifically through Tables, then tackle
HTML
Forms tutorial
URLs: See Ian
Graham's tutorial at UToronto for full (absolute) URLs.
Then Web
Diner's tutorial for the important idea of relative URLs
and their use in HTML.
HTTP: Tutorial, read
through
section 3, Sample HTTP Exchange spec
(RFC 2616, by Fielding)
Important
network tools
wget:
command-line tool for HTTP GET, POST documentation
download
for PC To install, unzip and copy *.dll and wget.exe
to %CATALINA_HOME%/bin, which is on your Path. wget is available
on our UNIX systems too.
tcpmon: shows TCP
messages "on the wire" for a certain port. More info. Screenshots
tomcat: Linux
installation info
Assigned ports (New) Installing
Tomcat on PC
Servlets (part
of Java EE): We are using version 2.4 servlets (spec),
servlet
tutorial, esp. the sections "First Servlets", "Processing
The Request Form Data" (i.e. the query string from the URL), and
"Processing the Request: HTTP Request Headers" servlet1 example
with build.xml (zip) servlet2 (zip)
Servlet API: Javadoc in JEE API. The corresponding jar is servlet-api.jar, which we use from the tomcat lib area, so you need to install tomcat and set the CATALINA_HOME environment variable before trying to compile a servlet using a supplied b uild.xml. Also you'll need the TOMCAT_URL environment variable for ant testx targets.
Java: We
are using Java 6 or 7,
aka Java 1.6:/1.7 API
language spec tutorial
Packages
tutorial.
Ant: We are using version
1.7.0. Documentation:
for the first tutorial, follow "Developing with Ant", then
"Hello World with Ant", for a second tutorial, start over from
the Table of Contents, select "Using Ant", then "Writing a
Simple Buildfile".
JUnit4: We are using version 4.8, included in eclipse3.6.home at sourceforge.net (read JUnit Cookbook, look at FAQ) CS636 Intro handout Vogel's JUnit4 in eclipse tutorial
Java EE: API intro list of technologies docs
REST in general: Wikipedia article, Fielding's thesis
JAX-RS version 1.1 (Java API for RESTful Web services, part of Java EE, API linked above): spec in Java EE Tutorial
Jersey, the implementation of JAX-RS we're using: Jersey REST: API Jersey User Guide Vogel's REST with Java (JAX-RS) using Jersey - Tutorial Project without Sec. 5: firstRest (zip), Project with REST service of Sec. 5 as well: firstRest2 (zip) form for new Todo list of Todos by GET to /todos
JAXB (part of Java 1.6 SE, API linked above) home overview spec Tutorials: see Sec. 4 of Vogel's REST with Java (JAX-RS) using Jersey - Tutorial and his JAXB tutorial linked from there.Long tutorial
JAX-WS: for SOAP Web Services spec implementation
