Homework assignments for CIS 455 / 555
Development will be in Java 6, aka JDK 1.6. We recommend the use of subversion, a version control system, for maintaining your project code. As a development environment, you may want to use Eclipse, possibly in combination with the Eclipse plug-in for subversion.
This very simple assignment will show you how to use the virtual machine image we have prepared for you. You can download the image itself here.
In addition to the PDF, you will also need the servlet helper classes, the servlet API JAR, and the simple command-line servlet runner (aka TestHarness).
Some useful URLs:
- Apache Jakarta's cookie specification summary
- Servlet introduction; a second one; a third one. Here are two more: InformIT and DevArticles.
- Servlet 2.4 APIs
- The Basic Testing Guide for HW1 describes how to test some of the essential features required for MS1 and MS2.
In addition to the PDF, you will also need the following:
- Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition. If you are using Eclipse, you need to configure it to use the lib/je.jar file in this package.
- JTidy parser for HTML parsing
- DOM writer and SAX writer sample code
- For testing, we have set up a sandbox that you can safely crawl.
In addition to the PDF, you may find the following useful:
- A simple example NodeFactory.java (may need tweaking to work with FreePastry 2.1)
- The FreePastry distribution
- The FreePastry Trac-Wiki has a lot of useful materials, including a tutorial
- Documentation of the YouTube API
- Jetty, if you need an alternate servlet container
In addition to the PDF, you may find the following useful:
- Getting started guide for EC2.