Goals:

• Learning techniques of modern Web Applications
• Learning JSON for data interchange

2:10 — 2:50

Part I: Web Application technologies

2:50 — 3:30

Part II: JSON

3:45 —

Part III: Address Book Development

Form groups to read on:

• HTML5
• CDN
• AJAX

When you are ready, you will briefly explain the topic to other groups.

JSON is a lightweight data interchange format.

Values in JSON are as follows:

Object

{ "key1": value1, "key2": value2 }

Array

[ value1, value2 ]

String

"A \"String\" \n with a new line"

Number

1234

Other values:

true, false, and null

A contact in an address book:

Exercise: build JSON documents for our Address book service.

We continue on our RESTFul contact manager

• Download the package file.
• Run the RESTContactsManager with eclipse.
• Copy the contacts subfolder to your HOME.
• Open a browser on http://localhost:8080
• Install Firebug http://getfirebug.com/ and open it (Ctrl+F12)