Introduction to SGML – Features of XML –XML as a Subset of SGML – XML Vs HTML – Views of XML Document - Simple XML Document – Starting and Ending Tags – Attributes and Tags –Entity References – Comments – CDATA Sections

Document Type declarations – Creating XML DTDs – Element type declaration – Attribute List Declaration – Attribute types – Attribute defaults – Displaying XML Data in HTML browser as HTML tables – Storing XML data in HTML document – Converting XML to HTML with XSL minimalist XSL style sheets – XML applications

Java Beans: Features – Designing Java Beans – Creating and using properties – Induced – bound and constrained properties – using and creating events – Introspection – creating and using BeanInfo clauses – customization – provide custom property editors and GUI interfaces.

JSPs - Creating simple JSP Pages – templating – Request time expression – Request & Response objects – Reading parameter values – Using Javabeans in JSPs - Reading & setting Properties of JavaBeans – Connecting forms & bean properties – Serialized beans – declaring variables & methods in pages – scriptlets – conditionals, loops & execution handling in JSPs with scriptlets – Accessing beans via scriptlets.

EJB – Basics of EJB – Types of Beans – Development of Session Beans – Steps – Creating & Implementing Interfaces – Writing Deployment descriptors – Packaging and deploying bean - using the bean from a client – Development of stateful session bean. Entity beans – Features (Basics of developing and using entity beans)