WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: A PRIMER ON WEB-ENABLEMENT (three-days, hands-on)
Instructor: Constantine Kaniklidis

This course provides a comprehensive up-to-date technical survey of the most strategic programming technologies currently available for Web development, to assist in web-enabling enterprise applications (whether LAN-based or legacy), in order to facilitate choosing among presented models of web-enabled applications and determining which technologies to deploy and where. Rather than an in-depth programming course in any one tool, this course seeks to impart a technically precise appreciation of the essential nature, and the strengths and weaknesses, of these critical tools and technologies in a practical development environment. .

Architectural Overview: Web-enabled Architectures
        Models of Enterprise Architectures
        Choosing a Model for Web-enabling Applications

Markup: 
        Core HTML
        Dynamic HTML and Data Binding

Scripting: Using JavaScript and VBScript

A Survey of Web Design Tools
        Leading Toolkits: DreamWeaver, FrontPage, HomeSite, . . .
        New Tools:  Flash, PHP, Maya, . . .

XML-based Development
        Understanding XML
        XLM-based Web Services: A Primer

Java Development and J2EE
        The Java Programming Language
        J2EE: A Technical Primer

Understanding Application Servers
        What is an Application Server
        Web Application Servers: WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun ONE/iPlanet, . . .

The ActiveX/ASP Model 
        What is ActiveX?
        ASP (Active Server Pages) Web Development

Microsoft's .NET Framework
        Visual Studio.NET
        Introducing C#