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How it works
but first…
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Some History
DESIGN
CONTENT
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DESIGN
CONTENT
BUSINESS
LOGIC
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How do we separate
content from presentation and
presentation from business logic?
We need a generalized markup
language…
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XML
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• XHTML
XHTML and XML
• XML
<h1>
<birdlist>
Birds of Kent Island
<title>
</h1>
Birds of Kent Island
<h2>
</title>
Common names of birds nesting <subtitle>
on Kent Island, New Brunswick
Common names of birds nesting on
</h2>
Kent Island, New Brunswick
<ol>
</subtitle>
<li>Common Eider Duck</li>
<birds>
<li>Herring Gull</li>
<bird>Common Eider Duck</bird>
<li>Leach’s Storm-Petrel</li>
<bird>Herring Gull</bird>
<li>Savannah Sparrow<li>
<bird>Leach’s Storm-Petrel</bird>
<li>Tree Swallow</li>
<bird>Savannah Sparrow</bird>
</ol>
<bird>Tree Swallow</bird>
</birds>
</birdlist>
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<birdlist>
<title>
Birds of Kent Island
</title>
<subtitle>
Common names of birds nesting on
Kent Island, New Brunswick
</subtitle>
<birds>
<bird>Common Eider Duck</bird>
<bird>Herring Gull</bird>
<bird>Leach’s Storm-Petrel</bird>
<bird>Savannah Sparrow</bird>
<bird>Tree Swallow</bird>
</birds>
</birdlist>
XSLT
(and XPath)
<xsl:template match=“/”>
<h1>
<xsl:value-of select=“title”/>
</h1>
<h2>
<xsl:value-of select=“subtitle”/>
</h2>
<ol>
<xsl:apply-templates
select=“birds/bird”>
</ol>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match=“bird”>
<li><xsl:value-of select=“.”/></li>
</xsl:template>
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DB
XML
Images
HTML
XML
PDF
CSS
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XSL
XSLNS4
XSL
XSL
DEFAULT
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Roles
• reader
• writer
• editor
• editor-in-chief
• administrator
• broadcaster
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Building Blocks
• Open source solutions that adhere to standards
– Java 2 Enterprise Edition  JBoss (& Jetty)
– Jakarta: Struts, Xerces, Xalan, Lucene
– XML, XSL (xslt, xsl-fo), JSP, JavaScript,
XHTML, CSS
– MySQL
more…
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EJB’s
XML
HTML
XALAN
XSLT
Images
CSS
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Advantages
• Follow well-recognized, open standards
• Cost = time + hardware; all components are
otherwise FREE
• Separation of roles
• Serve from any platform and transform for any
platform, device, or media
• Easy import into other applications
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Future Directions
Current & Future Projects
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Calendar System
Web Forms
Conferences
Directories
Web Services
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In conclusion…
Thanks!
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Thank you
References and Useful Links
• This presentation:
– http://www.rpi.edu/dept/cct/public/highedweb
• J2EE:
– http://java.sun.com/j2ee/
– http://java.sun.com/j2ee/j2ee_guide.pdf
• JBoss:
– http://www.jboss.org
• Development Tools:
–http://jakarta.apache.org
–http://www.w3c.org
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