Web Engineering

Online Resources

Software

Useful applications related to the course topics. To ease the development, before installing any software please read the guide about the creation of a private software workspace

• The Java Platform, Standard Edition (suggested version for a.y. 2023/2024: 20)
• Apache NetBeans (suggested version for a.y. 2023/2024: 19)
  A Java IDE, useful to develop web applications
• Apache Tomcat (suggested version for a.y. 2023/2024: 9.0.80)
  A free and open source HTTP web server supporting the Java/Jakarta Servlet technology
• Notepad++
  A good editor for code and scripts
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge (Chromium)
• HTML Tidy
  A tool to analyze (and correct) many structural and accessibility problems of web pages
• HTML Validator
  A plugin to automatically validate web pages (there is also a Firefox version).
• SASS: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
  A style sheet preprocessor.
• Apache FreeMarker
  A Java template library
• MySQL Connector/J
  The MySQL JDBC driver

Other Resources

Unordered and often not updated collection of useful links to study and deepen your knowledge about the course topics

• MDN
  "Resources for Developers, by Developers"
• HTML Living Standard, Edition for Web Developers
• DOM Living Standard
• Basic CSS tutorial from MDN
• CSS reference from MDN
• Freemarker online documentation
  The complete documentation about the Java template engine adopted in our course. Sections I and II are the most important reading
• Javascript reference from MDN
• ECMAScript Language Specification from ECMA international
  Since Javascript is a direct derivation of ECMAScript, this guide is useful to understand and disambiguate many Javascript language features and syntax issues
• JQuery
  A powerful, crossbrowser Javascript helper library
• WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group)
  The community that develops the new HTML ("living standard") and related technologies
• HTML 5 specification
• HTML 4 specification
• Differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5
• XHTML 1 specification
• Online HTML validator
• Java Servlet Technology
• CSS 2 specification
• Current CSS3 drafts
• Online CSS validator
• HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills
  A service which accepts a request for a set of browser features and returns the polyfills that are needed by the requesting browser
• SASS: a CSS preprocessor
• CSSPlay
  Demos and examples of everything CSS can really do...
• DOM specification
• Browsershots
  Here you can see how browsers display you web site
• Open Source Web Design
  Free web site designs to reuse and learn from!
• Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
  A site devoted to web application security
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
  The guidelines to follow to develop really accessible web sites
• Responsive Web Design
  The original Ethan Marcotte article published on A List Apart that introduced this design technique