JSP - Intermed

JSP Page Life Cycle Describe the purpose and event sequence of the JSP page life cycle:

1. JSP page translation
2. Compilation of generated servlet
3. Load class create instance
4. Call the jspInit method
5. Call the _jspService method
6. Call the jspDestroy method.

Directives Knowledge of all the attributes applicable to the page directive, and good understanding of include and taglib directives. Error Handling Good understanding of Translation Time Processing Errors, Request Time Processing Errors and Error Pages. Different ways to define error pages such as error-code defined in web.xml, exception defined in web.xml, error-page defined in a jsp. Session Management Given a scenario, describe which session management mechanism the Web container could employ, how cookies might be used to manage sessions, how URL rewriting might be used to manage sessions, and write servlet code to perform URL rewriting. Listeners Use of various listeners. Basic knowledge of Listeners is required here. Headers Basic knowledge of header reading and setting. Expression Language

• Basics of EL
• Access of scope attributes, deactivation of EL evaluation.
• Understanding of arithmetic, logical, conditional, dot, operators.
• Basic knowledge of EL functions and collections.

EL Implicit Objects

• pageContext object
• Scope objects: pageScope, requestScope, sessionScope, and applicationScope objects
• param and paramValues objects
• header and headerValues objects

Standard Actions Basic knowledge of the following Standard Actions: useBean, setProperty, getProperty, include, forward, param, plugin, params, fallback, attribute, body, invoke, doBody, element, text, output. Tag Extensions

• Understanding of Classic and Simple Tag handlers. Proper way of Packaging a Tag library.
• Basic knowledge of Tag Library Descriptor elements.
• Basic knowledge of how tag validation works.
• Creating Tag handler classes.
• Creating TLD files and using the custom tag libraries in JSP pages.