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Chapter 1:  Technologies for Web Applications :.
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| Chapter 1 contains a broad overview of the fundamental technologies employed in the construction of data-intensive Web applications. The chapter briefly illustrates the basic protocol and languages of the Web (HTTP, HTML, and client-side scripting and components); it focuses on XML, the new paradigm for content structuring and exchange, and on its collateral standards for document transformation (XSL and XQuery); then it discusses the second ingredient of data-intensive Web applications, relational databases, and the associated query language (SQL) and interoperability standards (ODBC and JDBC); finally, it explains the architectures and languages for building dynamic Web pages, including Java servlets, server-side scripting languages such as ASP and JSP, XML tag libraries, and application server architectures. The chapter ends with the discussion of multi-device content publishing. |
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