Web Application Architecture - Leon Shklar

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Auteur(s) : Leon Shklar - Rich Rosen

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 28/02/2009

Nombre de pages : 440

Expédition : 807

Dimensions : 23.6 x 18.9 x 2.7

ISBN : 047051860X

Résumé :
The book provides an in-depth examination of the core concepts and general principles of web application development, using examples from specific technologies. This conceptual knowledge is critical when designing, developing and debugging complex systems, and makes it easier to learn the new application programming interfaces (APIs) that arise in the rapidly changing Internet environment.

The companion web site for the book is located at www.webappbuilders.com.

The text is organized into the following sections:

• Core Internet protocols
• The HTTP protocol as a foundation for web applications
• Discussion of markup languages such as HTML, CSS, and XML
• Server and browser architecture
• Application design case studies using JavaEE/Struts and Ruby on Rails
• Survey of emerging technologies

The second edition of the book has been updated with enhanced coverage of:

• XML applications including XSLT, XSL-FO, and XPath
• XML-compliant HTML including XHTML and XHTML MP
• Web Services protocols including SOAP and REST
• Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)
• Security and encryption
• XML and RDF query languages
• Cloud computing, collaborative online services, and Web 2.0

and new chapters on:

• JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML), and AJAX
• Rapid application development using Ruby on Rails
• Search technology including Search Engine Optimization

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Biographie:
Leon Shklar currently works for Thomson Reuters where he is the head of technology for Reuters Media. Previously, Leon headed up the development team for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal at Dow Jones. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he spent six years at Bell Communications Research and almost as long in the world of dot-coms and Internet software. Leon holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

Rich Rosen is a senior developer in the Fixed Income Systems Group at Interactive Data Corporation. Previously, he was an Application Architect at Dow Jones. Rich began his career at Bell Labs, where his work with relational databases and the Internet prepared him the world of Web application development. He is a co-author of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks, 4th Edition (O'Reilly). Rich holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Sommaire:

About the Authors xv

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 History and Pre-History of the Web 1

1.2 From Web Pages to Web Sites 3

1.3 From Web Sites to Web Applications 4

1.4 Web 2.0: On-line Communities and Collaboration 4

1.5 The Brave New World of AJAX 5

1.6 Focus of This Book 5

1.7 What Is Covered in This Book 7

1.8 Bibliography 9

2 Core Internet Protocols 11

2.1 Historical Perspective 12

2.2 TCP/IP Architecture 13

2.2.1 Protocol layers 13

2.2.2 Comparison with OSI model 14

2.2.3 The client-server paradigm 14

2.3 TCP/IP Application Services 16

2.3.1 Telnet 16

2.3.2 E-mail 17

2.3.3 Message forums 23

2.3.4 Chat and messaging protocols 24

2.3.5 Security and encryption 24

2.3.6 File server protocols 26

2.4 And Then Came the Web . . . 27

Questions and Exercises 28

2.5 Bibliography 28

3 Birth of the Web: HTTP 29

3.1 Historical Perspective 29

3.1.1 CERN: birthplace of the web 29

3.1.2 Building blocks of the web 30

3.2 Uniform Resource Locator 30

3.3 Fundamentals of HTTP 32

3.3.1 Request-response paradigm 33

3.3.2 Stateless protocol 33

3.3.3 Structure of HTTP messages 34

3.3.4 Request methods 36

3.3.5 Status codes 41

3.4 Better Information Through Headers 44

3.4.1 Support for content types 46

3.4.2 Caching control 49

3.4.3 Security 51

3.4.4 Session support 53

3.5 Evolution of the HTTP Protocol 56

3.5.1 Virtual hosting 57

3.5.2 Caching support 58

3.5.3 Persistent connections 59

3.6 Summary 60

Questions and Exercises 60

3.7 Bibliography 61

4 HTML and Its Roots 63

4.1 Standard Generalized Markup Language 64

4.1.1 SGML declaration 66

4.1.2 Document Type Definition 68

4.2 HTML 72

4.2.1 Evolution of HTML 72

4.2.2 Structure and syntax 73

4.3 HTML Rendering 79

4.3.1 Cascading Style Sheets 79

4.3.2 Associating styles with HTML documents 80

4.4 Summary 82

Questions and Exercises 82

4.5 Bibliography 83

5 XML Languages and Applications 85

5.1 Core XML 86

5.1.1 XML documents 87

5.1.2 XML DTD 88

5.1.3 XML Schema 91

5.2 XHTML 95

5.2.1 HTML 5 97

5.2.2 XHTML MP 97

5.3 Web Services 100

5.3.1 SOAP 100

5.3.2 Representational State Transfer (REST) 105

5.4 XSL 108

5.4.1 XSLT 109

5.4.2 XSL Formatting Objects 111

5.4.3 What is so important about XSL? 116

5.5 Summary 118

Questions and Exercises 119

5.6 Bibliography 120

5.7 Web Links 120

5.8 Endnotes 120

6 Web Servers 121

6.1 Basic Operation 122

6.1.1 HTTP request processing 123

6.1.2 Delivery of static content 125

6.1.3 Delivery of dynamic content 127

6.2 Mechanisms for Dynamic Content Delivery 135

6.2.1 Beyond CGI and SSI 135

6.2.2 Native APIs (ISAPI and Apache Server API) 135

6.2.3 FastCGI 135

6.2.4 Template processing 136

6.2.5 Servlets 137

6.2.6 Java Server Pages 138

6.2.7 Future directions 139

6.3 Advanced Functionality 140

6.3.1 Virtual hosting 140

6.3.2 Chunked transfers 141

6.3.3 Caching support 142

6.3.4 Extensibility 143

6.4 Server Configuration 143

6.4.1 Directory structure 143

6.4.2 Execution 144

6.4.3 Address resolution 145

6.4.4 MIME support 146

6.4.5 Server extensions 146

6.5 Server Sec...