World Wide Web

• Slides as PDF File
• Slides as Online Presentation

• The WWW Consortium
  
• How it all started: a brief history of the WWW origins
  
• Youtube video on Web 2.0
• Mashups: Video, Mashup FAQ, technical references
• Example Web API: Google Maps, Tutorial
• WWW Servers supporting CGI scripts and Servlets/Java Server Pages:
• Apache Tomcat
• Xitami
  
• Simple CGI example (a webpage from which you can launch simple CGI scripts in Perl: simple.pl and simple2.pl)
  
• More complex CGI example (a webpage from which you launch a more complex CGI script cgipost.pl, which is a reduced version of the example on this website)
  
• Programming with Applets (example code/tutorial) and an example webpage with an applet to let users build/modify AVL trees
• Servlet/JSP tutorial
• The Java Servlet tutorial
• The Java JSP tutorial
• How to program dynamic web pages: Applets and RMI vs. Servlets and HTTP
• Comparing technologies to develop dynamic WWW content (including CGI, Servlets, and PHP)
• Web 2.0: what is it, annual conference, some critical thoughts,video clip of a discussion to explain the basic idea