Be ready to present all your work this week in class. This includes your assigned questions.

Timer Bean

• Mike wrote a Timer Bean for reporting how long a web page takes to generate.
• Use his bean on all your web pages.
• His course web site has example code explaining its use
• There is also a link to the source code from his course web site

Site Icon

• Create an icon for your
  • web application
  • course web site
• It does not have to be fancy at all
• Extra credit for multiple icons
  • pick one randomly to use for each request
  • or associate each one with one of your styles

User Authentication

• Add some form of user authentication to your web application
• A suggested outline for doing this is on slide 39 from this week's class slides.

Using Useful Links

• Go to Useful Links Discussion Board
• Go to and comment one at least one site someone else has posted.
• Hopefully the site will have proven useful in doing your assignments this week.

Compare JSP and CGI

• Write a comparison of JSP and CGI way of doing things for one of the following topics
  • State maintenance
  • Session tracking
  • System resources - Beth
  • Error handling - Mike
  • Other topics?

These are questions or examples which only one student has been assigned.

1. XML Schema overview - Josiah
2. Overview of available validating XML parsers - Janna
3. Example of displaying an XML document with CSS - Beth
4. Example of displaying an XML document with XSLT, that is Transforming the XML into another document type like XHTML - Joel
5. General validator of acceptable input using regular expressions
6. Overview of user authentication using the operating system. JAAS might be a good solution. - Mike