PHP Project For Beginners

ISBN 10: 81-8404-844-5

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-844-5

Edition: First

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

How to document:
o    Case Study
o    Business Requirements
o    Software Requirement Specifications
o    Data Dictionary, Table Definitions and Directory Structure
o    End User Manual
o    Software Design Document

How to implement the following technologies:
o    Shopping Cart [using jCart]
o    Payment Gateway for accepting payments using Credit Cards [Paypal Checkout]
o    Tag Clouds
o    Session Management
o    Search
o    Dispatch Emails [using SwiftMailer]
o    BLOB to store images and PDF files
o    Access based User Management
o    Restricted page access protection
o    jQuery [Ajax]
o    Text Suggest
o    Password Strength Indicator
o    RSS Feeds [using magpierss]
o    Captcha

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Apache 2.2 Web Server
MySQL Community Server 5.5
PHP 5.3
Source code for the project demonstrated in this book

ISBN 13: 978-93-5023-101-2

This book is our attempt to provide the readers with all the necessary information on how to set up the Java development environment and get started with client side, application development, using Java 7.

In a step by step, easy to follow manner, the book takes one through application development. It assists in getting a good grip on the Java syntax and its methodologies to confidently craft robust applications using Java SE 7. It explores the Core of Java along with the improvements of Java SE 7, examines the various specifications and describes how to assemble them to develop applications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow.

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for crafting robust Java solutions.

What You’ll Learn?

Java Development Kit 7 as the Platform

Language Basics

o    Fundamentals

o    Operators

o    Control Flow Statements

o    Iterations

o    Classes

o    Inheritance

o    Abstract Classes And Interfaces

o    Packages And Imports

o    Enumerations

o    Annotations

o    JavaBeans Components

o    Javadoc

Java Utilities And The Collection Framework

o    Arrays

o    Vectors

o    Collections

o    Generic Programming

o    ArrayList

o    LinkedList

GUI

o    Applets

o    Abstract Window Toolkit [AWT]

o    Swing

Event And Exception Handling

o    Event Handling

o    Exceptions

Java DataBase Connectivity [JDBC]

o    MySQL 5 as the Database Engine

Networking And I/O

o    Sockets And Network

o    Concurrency and Multithreading

o    Remote Method Innvocation

o    Java I/O System

XML And Java

o    Java API For XML Processing [JAXP]

§  SAX

§  DOM

o    Streaming API For XML [StAX]

§  Read RSS Feeds using StAX

o    Java Architecture For XML Binding [JAXB]

o    XPath

Java Servlets

Java Servlets is a part of the Java EE technologies and hence is out of the scope of this book. For those who want to quickly get started with Java Servlets can refer to this section. It uses the NetBeans IDE to craft and run the examples.

NetBeans 6.9 as the IDE

Java EE 6 Server Programming For Profesionals

The book has been written to provide genuine domain knowledge to students, developers, technical leads and professionals who wish to learn Java, Server side, enterprise application development, using Java EE 6.

This book explores Java EE 6 and systematically illustrates its various specifications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced Enterprise developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for creating Enterprise solutions.
The Application Development section of this book helps re-enforce all the learning that took place throughout the book. This will definitely help professionals to quickly get started with building real-world enterprise applications using Java EE 6.

What You’ll Learn?
Reading this book, application developers will get an insight into how Enterprise/Web applications are structured, developed and executed using:

NetBeans 6.8 as the IDE

Sun Glassfish Enterprise Server [v3] as the Application Server

The presentation logic of the application

Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, JavaServer Faces as the Web Tier components

Facelets and JavaServer Pages as the ViewDefinition Languages for JSF

The business logic of the application

Enterprise JavaBeans as the Business Tier component

Session Beans – Stateless, Stateful, Singleton

Message Driven Beans

Interceptors to add functionality to already existing business methods

The persistent storage layer of the application

MySQL 5 as the EIS Tier

Java Persistence API [JPA] 2.0 as the Standard Interface
JPA is a Specification and a standard interface which requires an implementation i.e. an ORM tool such as Hibernate, TopLink, OpenJPA, EclipseLink or any other ORM that implements JPA. It defines the interface that an implementation has to implement.

Hibernate 3.5 as the Implementation [Object Relational Mapping tool]
A popular, powerful and a free, open source Object Relational Mapping library for the Java programming language which makes the application portable to all the SQL databases supported by Hibernate.

Struts 2.1 as the Application Development Framework
An open source Java framework used for building Web applications based on the Servlet and JavaServer Pages [JSP] technologies.

Spring as the Application Development Framework
An open source framework that helps address the complexity of enterprise application development.

Grails [Groovy Realtime Archive Internet Lookup] as the Web Development Framework
A modern Web development framework [built on Spring and based on Groovy] that helps improve developer’s productivity by applying principles like Convention over Configuration.

Display Tags [A custom tags library]
An open source suite of custom tags that provide high-level web presentation patterns to work in an MVC model. The library provides a significant amount of functionality while still being easy to use.

Java API for XML Web Services [JAX-WS] as the technology for building web services

JavaMail as the API for dispatching emails

Calendar Based Timer Services as the Scheduler for creating CRON-like jobs

JNDI  as the API to access a variety of naming and directory services

JTA as the API for managing transactions 

This will also give an insight into:
Building Web Application
Using JSP, JPA 2.0, Ajax
Building Enterprise Applications
Using JSP/Servlets 3.0, EJB 3.1 – Session Bean and Message driven Bean, JPA using EclipseLink, JMS
Using the NetBeans IDE to develop JPA based CRUD applications [using already existing database tables]
Using JSF 2.0 – Facelets and Managed Beans, EJB 3.1 – Session Beans, JPA 2.0

Data grid and paginations using Display Tags

This book aims serving students, developers, technical leads and professionals who wish to learn server side, enterprise application development, using Java EE 6.

This book explores Java EE 6 and systematically illustrates its various specifications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced Enterprise developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for creating Enterprise solutions.

What You’ll Learn?

Reading this book, application developers will get an insight into how Enterprise/Web applications are structured developed and executed using:

NetBeans 6.8 as the IDE

Sun Glassfish Enterprise Server [v3] as the Application Server

The presentation logic of the application
Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, JavaServer Faces as the Web Tier components
Facelets and JavaServer Pages as the View Definition Languages for JSF

The business logic of the application
Enterprise JavaBeans as the Business Tier component
Session Beans – Stateless, Stateful, Singleton
Message Driven Beans
Interceptors to add functionality to already existing business methods

The persistent storage layer of the application
MySQL 5 as the EIS Tier
Java Persistence API [JPA] 2.0 as the Standard Interface
JPA is a Specification and a standard interface which requires an implementation i.e. an ORM tool such as Hibernate, TopLink, OpenJPA, EclipseLink or any other ORM that implements JPA. It defines the interface that an implementation has to implement.
Hibernate 3 as the Implementation [Object Relational Mapping tool]
A popular, powerful and a free, open source Object Relational Mapping library for the Java programming language which makes the application portable to all the SQL databases supported by Hibernate.

Struts 2 as the Application Development Framework
An open source Java framework used for building Web applications based on the Servlet and JavaServer Pages [JSP] technologies.

Java API for XML Web Services [JAX-WS] as the technology for building web services

JavaMail as the API for dispatching emails

Calendar Based Timer Services as the Scheduler for creating CRON-like jobs

JNDI  as the API to access a variety of naming and directory services

JTA as the API for managing transactions

ISBN 10: 81-8404-939-8

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-939-8

Edition: First

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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK
Java EE
Introduction To Java and Java EE, Java EE 6 Architecture, Setting Up NetBeans IDE 6.8

Java Servlets 3.0
Introduction, Servlet API And Lifecycle, Working With Servlets, Working With Databases, Cookies, Session, Filters, Request Dispatcher, Annotations, HttpOnly Cookies

JavaServer Pages 2.1
Introduction, Getting Started, Action Elements, Implicit Objects, Scope, Expression Language, JSP Standard Tag Libraries

JavaServer Faces 2.0
Introduction, Getting Started, JSF Components, Managed Beans, Navigation, Converters and Validators, Facelets

Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1
Introduction, Getting Started, Session Beans – Stateless/Stateful/Singleton, Message Driven Beans, Interceptors, Asynchronous Invocation, Calendar Based Timer Services, No-Interface View

Advanced Topics
Web Services, JavaMail, JNDI, Enterprise Application Development, Listener, Java Transaction API

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for NetBeans IDE 6.8
MySQL 5.1
MySQL Connector/J 5.1, JDK 6
Struts 2.1
Hibernate 3.5
Source code for every example in this book

LAMP Programming For Professionals

Designed for beginners, intermediate and professional developers, this book provides genuine domain knowledge to learn web based, application development, usingApache as the Web server, PHP as the programming language, MySQL as the data store, all mounted on the Linux OS. It delves deeply into the core of the MySQL and PHP providing a sound understanding of both.

This book also demonstrates a step-by-step guide to developing a few Webapplications [using PHP 6 & MySQL 5.4 under Apache 2.2] which re-enforces all the learning that takes place throughout the book. 

This book uses the learning by doing pattern with a lot of ready-to-use examples. This pattern has proven to be the best approach for learning a new technology. Most [if not all] of the concepts that you will find in this book are demonstrated using well described and easy to understand examples, yet sophisticated enough to demonstrate LAMP Programming in a real-world context.

Additionally, a special chapter covering the virtual installation of Linux is included. This provides an opportunity to create a Virtual LAMP Framework on MS Windows. 

What You’ll Learn? 

Installing and Setting Up LAMP
Working with the MySQL Database 
Working with the PHP programming language
o    Basics – Variables, Operators, Control Structures, Functions
o    Regular Expression [PCRE]
o    Using MySQLnd, the new native driver
o    Using MySQL, MySQLi and PDO extensions
o    Cookies and Sessions
o    Object Oriented Programming
o    Debugging And Error Handling
o    Web Services Using SOAP
Building Web Based Applications
o    Contact Management System
o    Uses jQuery and Ajax
o    Uses SendMail to dispatch reminder emails for birthdays and anniversaries
o    RSS Widget
o    Uses MagpieRSS [RSS parser for PHP]
o    Uses JavaScript to provide Drag and Drop functionality
o    Newsletter Delivery System
o    Uses SendMail to dispatch newsletter
o    An Automatic Email Dispatcher 
o    Uses CronJob to schedule email dispatch
o    Uses SendMail to dispatch emails
o    Using The Model View Controller Architecture
Setting Up Linux On A Virtual Machine Over MS Windows 
Using phpMyAdmin – A Web based MySQL Administration tool

ISBN 10: 81-8404-843-8

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-843-8
Edition: First
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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

All About The L.A.M.P. Framework
Introduction to Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. How the L.A.M.P. framework works.

Setting Up The L.A.M.P. Environment
Installing Cent OS, Apache, PHP and MySQL. Configuring the Development Environment.

Understanding The MySQL Database
Db Storage Engines, Db Administration, SQL Elements, Table Creation, Working With Table Data, Tables And Its Structure, Operators And Regular Expression, Grouping Data, Joins, Views, Functions, Data Constraints, Subquery, Union, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Transactions, Cursors

Understanding The PHP Language
Mixing PHP And HTML, Variables And Operators, Control Structures, Functions, Regular Expressions, Working With Database using MySQL, MySQLi and PDO, Cookies, Sessions, Object Oriented Programming, Debugging And Error Handling, Web Services Using SOAP

Application Development
Contact Management, RSS Widget, Newsletter Delivery System, Automatic Email Dispatcher, Programming Using The Model View Controller Architecture    

Linux On Virtual Machine
Installing CentOS On Sun VirtualBox

Appendix
phpMyAdmin – A web based MySQL Db Administration tool

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for Apache Web Server 2.2.13
MySQL 5.4
PHP 6.0 [Development Snapshot]
ICU 4.2.1
PHP 5.3 [Stable Release]
phpMyAdmin 3.2.2
Video Footage covering LAMP Installation
Source code for the examples covered in this book   

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

All About The L.A.M.P. Framework
Introduction to Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. How the L.A.M.P. framework works.

Setting Up The L.A.M.P. Environment
Installing Cent OS, Apache, PHP and MySQL. Configuring the Development Environment.

Understanding The MySQL Database
Db Storage Engines, Db Administration, SQL Elements, Table Creation, Working With Table Data, Tables And Its Structure, Operators And Regular Expression, Grouping Data, Joins, Views, Functions, Data Constraints, Subquery, Union, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Transactions, Cursors

Understanding The PHP Language
Mixing PHP And HTML, Variables And Operators, Control Structures, Functions, Regular Expressions, Working With Database using MySQL, MySQLi and PDO, Cookies, Sessions, Object Oriented Programming, Debugging And Error Handling, Web Services Using SOAP

Application Development
Contact Management, RSS Widget, Newsletter Delivery System, Automatic Email Dispatcher, Programming Using The Model View Controller Architecture    

Linux On Virtual Machine
Installing CentOS On Sun VirtualBox

Appendix
phpMyAdmin – A web based MySQL Db Administration tool

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for Apache Web Server 2.2.13
MySQL 5.4
PHP 6.0 [Development Snapshot]
ICU 4.2.1
PHP 5.3 [Stable Release]
phpMyAdmin 3.2.2
Video Footage covering LAMP Installation
Source code for the examples covered in this book

Java EE Project Using EJB 3, JPA And Struts 2 For Beginners

This book aims serving students, developers, technical leads and to some extent project managers or consultants by demonstrating a structured documented modestly sized project. Learning the project development and documentation is done through the construction of an Online Car Rental System [integrated with a payment gateway] using MySQL Community Server as the data store with Java Server Pages as the delivery mechanism, Struts 2 as the framework, JPA as the Specification and Hibernate 3 as the Implementation [the Object Relational Mapping library].

What You’ll Learn?

Online Shopping
Google checkout
jQuery Validations
Session management Search
Sending emails
Images in BLOB
Entity Beans [Annotations]
Stateless Session Beans
Ajax
Access based user management
Display Tag
Pagination
Restricted page access protection
User authentication interceptor
Custom error pages
Double form submission prevention
Persistence
Java Transaction API
Java Persistence API
Connection Pooling
JNDI Data Source
Named Queries
Check Username Availability
Password Strength
Resource Bundle  

ISBN 10: 81-8404-806-8

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-806-3

Edition: First

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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

Understanding The Framework
Enterprise Java Beans 3
Java Persistence API
Struts 2
The Project Case Study
Process Flow
Software Requirements Specification
Software Design Documentation
Project Files
Running The Project
Data Dictionary
Setting Up The Development Environment
End User Manual
Google Checkout – Payment Gateway

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for JDK 6
MySQL Community Server 6
MySQL Connector/J
Struts 2.1.x
Hibernate 3
Source code for the project, SQL Import Script for MySQL 

ISBN 10: 81-8404-806-8

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-806-3

Edition: First

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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

Understanding The Framework
Enterprise Java Beans 3
Java Persistence API
Struts 2
The Project Case Study
Process Flow
Software Requirements Specification
Software Design Documentation
Project Files
Running The Project
Data Dictionary
Setting Up The Development Environment
End User Manual
Google Checkout – Payment Gateway

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for JDK 6
MySQL Community Server 6
MySQL Connector/J
Struts 2.1.x
Hibernate 3
Source code for the project, SQL Import Script for MySQL

Java Persistence API In EJB 3 For Professionals

Designed for beginners and intermediate developers, this book teaches JPA from the ground up with an aim to get the reader up to speed with JPA as quickly as possible. It delves deeply into the core of the JPA, providing a sound understanding of the components that make up the frameworkand the way they interact with each other.

This book uses the learning by doing pattern with a lot of ready-to-use examples. This pattern has proven to be the best approach for learning a new technology. Most [if not all] of the concepts that you will find in this book are demonstrated using well described and easy to understand examples, yet sophisticated enough to demonstrate JPA in a real-world context.

This book demonstrates a step-by-step guide to developing Web as well as Enterprise applications [using EJB 3 ] which re-enforces all the learning that takes place throughout the book. It also teaches how to integrate an enterprise application with Struts2. Not only this, the book also introduces EJB 3.1 [a part of Java EE 6] and demonstrates developing a IPA based EIB 3.1 application with the help of Glassfish v3 Prelude.

What You’ll Learn?

Building Web Applications

Using JSP/Servlets, DAO, JPA using Hibernate 3, Ajax, Glassfish v2

Using JSP, JPA using TopLink, Glassfish v2

Building Enterprise Applications

Using JSP/Servlets, EJB 3 – Session Beans, JPA using TopLink, Glassfish v2

Integrating an enterprise application with Struts2 [An extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications]

Building Enterprise Applications Using EJB 3.1

Using JSP/Servlets, EJB 3.1 – Session Beans, JPA using EclipseLink, Glassfish v3 Prelude

Using the NetBeans IDE to develop JPA based applications
Reverse Engineering POJOs and Mapping Documents from Database tables

Pagination using JPA

To ensure that the focus remains on understanding the technology, we have adopted the simplest and most customary domain models such as Customer, Authors, ContactDetails, Books, Subscribers and Guestbook.

ISBN 10: 81-8404-709-7

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-709-7

Edition: First

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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

Introduction
Persistence, Object/Relational Mapping And JPA, Introduction To Java Persistence API, Writing The First Application
Core Components Of JPA

Entity, Entity Manager And Its Factory, Transactions, Persistence Unit
Metadata
Getting Started With Metadata, Database Identity, Associations, Collections, Inheritance, Defining Metadata Using XML
The JPA Query Language

The Basics Of Java Persistence Query Language, Joins, Query Interface, Pagination, Named Queries, Native SQL Queries
Web Application Development

Customer Database Web Application, Subscriber Management Web Application

Enterprise Application Development

Introduction To EJB 3.0, Customer Database Enterprise Application, Integrating Customer Database Enterprise Application With Struts2
Enterprise Application Development Using EJB 3.1

Introduction To EJB 3.1, Customer Database Enterprise Application
Appendix
Installing The NetBeans IDE, Customer Database Application Using Different ORMs

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for JDK 6

NetBeans IDE 6.5

Hibernate Core 3.x

Hibernate Annotations 3.x

Hibernate EntityManager 3.x

Struts 2.x

MySQL Community Server 6.x

JDBC Drivers

Library files for:

Display Tags

EclipseLink

TopLink

OpenJPA

Source code for the examples covered in this book

Hibernate 3 For Beginners

Designed for beginners and intermediate developers, this book teaches Hibernate 3 from the ground up with an aim to get the reader up to speed with Hibernate as quickly as possible. It delves deeply into the core of the Hibernate 3 framework, providing a sound understanding of the components that make up the framework and the way they interact with each other.

This book uses the learning by doing pattern with a lot of ready-to-use examples. This pattern has proven to be best approach for beginners. Most [if not all] of the concepts that you will find in this book are demonstrated using well described and easy to understand examples, yet sophisticated enough to demonstrate Hibernate in a real-world context.

Finally, a web based application is developed to re-enforce all the learning that took place throughout the book. Not only this, the book also teaches porting the same application to another database, switching from Hibernate’s native API to Java Persistence API and integrating with Struts2. This will definitely help developers to quickly get started with building real-world Web applications using the Hibernate 3 framework.

ISBN 10: 81-8404-705-3

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-705-9

Edition: First

THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

Introduction

Persistence And Object/Relational Mapping, Introduction To Hibernate

Getting Started

Writing The First Application, Using Hibernate Plugins For NetBeans

Understanding Configuration And Mapping

Configuring Hibernate, Getting Started With Mapping, The Database Identity, Associations, Collections, Concurrency Control Using Versioning, Annotations

Working With Hibernate

Sessions, Transactions, Implementing Connection Pooling

The Hibernate Query Language

The Basics Of Hibernate Query Language, Joins In HQL, The Query Interface, Criteria, Pagination, Named Queries, Native SQL Queries, Filters

Application Development With Hibernate

Customer Database Using JSP, Using Java Persistence API With Hibernate, Customer Database Using Struts², Switching The Database [MySQL To Oracle]

Appendix

Installing The NetBeans IDE

THE LEARNING THAT TAKES PLACE

Building a web application:

o Using Hibernate 3

o Using Java Persistence API with Hibernate 3

o Using Struts 2 with Hibernate 3

Using the NetBeans IDE to develop Hibernate based applications

Porting an application developed using Hibernate to another database [MySQL to Oracle]

Reverse Engineering POJOs and Mapping Documents from Database Tables

Pagination using Hibernate 3

Connection Pooling using:

o An Application Server [Glassfish] via JNDI

o Hibernate’s built-in mechanism [C3P0]

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for JDK 6

NetBeans IDE 6.5

Hibernate Core 3.x

Hibernate Annotations 3.x

Hibernate EntityManager 3.x

Struts 2.x

MySQL Community Server 6.x

Oracle Database 10g XE

JDBC Drivers

Library files for Display Tags

Source code for the examples covered in this book.

This book aims serving students, developers, technical leads and to some extent project managers or consultants by demonstrating a structured documented modestly sized project.

Learning the project development and documentation is done through the construction of an Online Shopping Cart [integrated with a payment gateway] using MySQL Community Server as the data store with Java Server Pages as the delivery mechanism, Struts 2 as the framework and Hibernate 3 as the Object Relational Mapping library.

Framework migration [Struts 2.0.x to 2.1.x] and the art of migrating the application across databases [with the help of Hibernate] is what the readers would definitely appreciate.

ISBN 10: 81-8404-696-0

ISBN 13: 978-81-8404-696-0

Edition: First

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THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK

Understanding The Framework

Setting Up The Environment

About The Project

Software Design Documentation

End User Manual

Running The Project

Process Flow

Migration

Appendix

THE LEARNING THAT TAKES PLACE

Shopping cart

Google checkout

Tag clouds

Session management

Directory

Search

Sending emails

Files in BLOB

Validations

JavaDoc

Data Access Object design pattern

Access based user management

Hibernate based pagination

Restricted page access protection

User authentication interceptor

Custom error pages

Double form submission prevention

Application migration from Struts 2.0.x to 2.1.x

Database migration from MySQL to Oracle

CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM

Setup files for JDK 6

MySQL Community Server 6

MySQL Connector/J

Oracle Database 10g XE

Oracle JDBC

Struts 2.0.x

Struts 2.1.x

Hibernate 3

Source code for the project [for Struts 2.0.x and Struts 2.1.x]

SQL Import Scripts for MySQL and Oracle