Web Applications with JavaScript or Java: Volume 1: Constraint Validation, Enumerations, Special Datatypes

Today, web applications are the most important type of software applications. This textbook shows how to design and implement them, using a model-based engineering approach that covers general information management concepts and techniques and the two most relevant technology platforms: JavaScript and Java. The book provides an in-depth tutorial for theory-underpinned and example-based learning by doing it yourself, supported by quiz questions and practice projects.

Web apps are designed using UML class diagrams and implemented with two technologies: JavaScript for front-end (and distributed NodeJS) apps, and Java (with JPA and JSF) for back-end apps. The six example apps discussed in the book can be run, and their source code downloaded, from the book's website.

I. Getting Started
　　　 1. A Quick Tour of the Foundations of Web Apps
　　　 2. Summaries of JavaScript and Java EE
　　　 3. Building a Minimal Web App in Seven Steps
　　　 4. Lessons Learned
　　　 5. Practice Projects

II. Constraint Validation
　　　 6. Integrity Constraints and Data Validation
　　　 7. Constraint Validation in a Plain JavaScript Front-End App
　　　 8. Constraint Validation in a Java EE Back-End App
　　　 9. Lessons Learned
　　　 10. Practice Projects

III. Enumerations
　　　 11. Enumerations and Enumeration Attributes
　　　 12. Dealing with Enumerations in a Plain JavaScript Front-End App
　　　 13. Dealing with Enumerations in a Java EE Back-End App
　　　 14. Lessons Learned
　　　 15. Practice Projects

IV. Special Datatypes
　　　 16. Calendar Dates
　　　 17. Quantities
　　　 18. Collections
　　　 19. Complex Datatypes