Chapter 30. Traditional Web Programming and Java

Traditional Web programming involves the construction of static HTML documents, CGI programming, and scripting language–based code. Such techniques have traditionally provided rapid Web-enabling solutions at the expense of true enterprise-system class support. J2EE's Java Servlet and scripting-based technologies via JSP offer the best of many worlds to enterprise Java developers. This chapter first describes fundamental concepts of HTML that are pertinent to all forms of Web enabling. It then describes traditional models for Web-based programming and provides a context for understanding ...

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