This course attempts to distill the most important materials required for starting an e-business. That said, the course still covers alot of ground. There is also a text book for the course, Java Server Pages, by Larne Pekowsky. It is published by Addison-Wesley and is available at the bookstore. This course uses a web application development environment called Websphere Studio .
Web applications are essentially web servers on steriods.
Websphere Studio is used to create applications for Allaire Jrun , one of the application servers used in e-Lab. This mix of technology is very potent but also very complex. Students should expect to spend time getting up to speed on Websphere Studio . The reward will be that you will be able to create very powerful sites. Furthermore, because these sites use standard html and standard java components, they are portable to different vendor platforms.