ES1: 2. Web Technology
(5 Hours – 4 Credits)
Unit I
TCP/IP: TCP/IP Basics – Why IP address – Logical Address - TCP/IP Example- The
concept of IP address – Basics of TCP – Features of TCP – Relationship between TCP and IP –
Ports and Sockets – Active Open and Passive Open - TCP Connections – What makes TCP
reliable? – TCP Packet format - Persistent TCP connections – UDP – Differences between TCP
and UDP.
Unit II
DNS – E-mail – FTP – TFTP – History of WWW – Basics of WWW and Browsing -
Local information on the internet – HTML – Web Browser Architecture – Web Pages and
Multimedia – Remote Login (TELNET).
Unit III
Introduction to Web Technology: Web pages – Tiers – Concept of a Tier – Comparison
of Microsoft and Java Technologies – Web Pages – Static Web Pages – Plug-ins – Frames –
Forms. Dynamic Web Pages: Need – Magic of Dynamic Web Pages – Overview of Dynamic
Web Page Technologies – Overview of DHTML – Common Gateway Interface – ASP – ASP
Technology – ASP Example – Modern Trends in ASP – Java and JVM – Java Servlets – Java
Server Pages.
Unit IV
Active Web Pages: Active Web Pages in better solution – Java Applets – Why are
Active Web Pages Powerful? – Lifecycle of Java Applets – ActiveX Controls – Java Beans.
Middleware and Component-Based E-Commerce Architectures: CORBA – Java Remote Method
Invocation – DCOM. EDI: Overview – Origins of EDI – Understanding of EDI – Data Exchange
Standards – EDI Architecture – Significance of EDI – Financial EDI – EDI and internet.
Unit V
XML: SGML – Basics of XML – XML Parsers – Need for a standard. WAP:
Limitations of Mobile devices – Emergence of WAP – WAP Architecture – WAP Stack –
Concerns about WAP and its future – Alternatives to WAP.
Text Book
WEB TECHNOLOGIES TCP/IP to Internet Applications Architectures – Achyut S
Godbole & Atul Kahate, TMH, 2007.
Unit 1: Chapters 3.1-3.5,4.1-4.12
Unit II: Chapters 5.1-5.4,6.1-6.7
Unit III: Chapters 8.1-8.1,9.1-9.13
Unit IV: Chapters 10.1-10.7,15.1-15.3,16.1-16.8
Unit V: Chapters 17.1-17.4,18.1-18.6)
