All about how to get from SQL to HTML; from the relational database through the web/application server to the client's browser: JDBC, JNDI, Javabeans, Servlets, JSP, XML; Rendering data on HTML pages as read-only list views and read-write data maintenance forms; overcoming knotty problems such as flexibly formatting dates for presentation and passing through the layers to validated storage; rendering permissible lists of values and foreign key lookup choices as pull-down menus; presenting (pseudo-) boolean data values as checkboxes; managing internal surrogate primary and foreign key behind the scenes for your users; connection pooling; metadata query-driven code generation for data components; enterprise application architecture.
Author: Howard Hyde