26.1. Introduction

In this chapter, we introduce web application development with Java-based technology. Web-based applications create web content for web browser clients. This web content includes Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), client-side scripting, images and binary data. For those who are not familiar with XHTML, we’ve provided on the CD that accompanies this book three chapters from our book Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 3/e—Introduction to XHTML: Part 1, Introduction to XHTML: Part 2 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In Chapters 2628, we assume you already know XHTML.

This chapter begins with an overview of multitier application architecture and Java’s web technologies for implementing multitier applications. ...

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