The Web has gone through a series of evolutionary steps. Beginning with the display of static text and pictures, it progressed through dynamic pages generated from a database, multimedia, powerful searching capabilities, and into broad creation of information through Blogs, Wikis and Portals.

In this seminar we delve into client side technologies using JavaScript, communications tools and widget libraries. We also address server side development, using highly productive Web frameworks that support rapid development and easy modification. By the end of the seminar you will have a new toolbox filled with techniques for rapidly building the rich applications that are driving the next generation of Web usage.

While the Java language is fun, friendly, and easy to learn, to successfully build sophisticated applications, a Java developer needs to keep up with the alternatives available from the open-source landscape. This tutorial focuses on three open-source Java projects, namely, Ant, Tapestry and Lucene. Ant is the de facto Java build tool, automating steps of the development process such as unit testing, documenting, reporting, packaging and deploying. This tutorial covers the basics, tips and tricks, as well as best practices of building a web application.