Today, web applications are the most important type of software applications. This textbook shows how to design and implement them, using a model-based engineering approach that covers general information management concepts and techniques and the two most relevant technology platforms: JavaScript and Java. The book provides an in-depth tutorial for theory-underpinned and example-based learning by doing it yourself, supported by quiz questions and practice projects. Volume 1 provides an introduction to web technologies and model-based web application engineering, discussing the information management concepts of constraint-based data validation, enumerations and special datatypes. Volume 2 discusses the advanced information management concepts of associations and inheritance in class hierarchies.

Web apps are designed using UML class diagrams and implemented with two technologies: JavaScript for front-end (and distributed NodeJS) apps, and Java (with JPA and JSF) for back-end apps. The six example apps discussed in the book can be run, and their source code downloaded, from the book's website.

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Prof. Gerd Wagner, Leiter des Fachgebiets Internet-Technologie der TU Brandenburg in Cottbus Mircea Diaconescu, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut.
Author reads at University of Brandenburg with 20 students per semester
Subject within all courses on Web-Engineering, Media Sciences (e.g. Lübeck, Diusburg, Koblenz, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Munich)
Author also runs a webpage on the topic where he provides a (non printable) living document of some chapters. This page attracts hits from all over the world