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. Volume 1 provides an
introduction to web technologies and model-based web application
engineering, discussing the information management concepts of
constraint-based data validation, enumerations and special datatypes.
Volume 2 discusses the advanced information management concepts of
associations and inheritance in class hierarchies.
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.