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Web Application Development: Workshop Outline

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Identify, and describe, potential web-based solutions for a range of clinical, educational, and research problems.
• Create basic data input forms using HTML .
• Use both Internet and print resources to helpp implement database solutions, scripting, and Java.
• Select appropriate tools and/or consultants for web page development.

Didactic (120 minutes)

Part I (60 minutes)

• Introduction, Orientation, Goals, Objectives, and Prerequisites. (10 min) (BE)
• Background: Motivation, Terminology, Intra vs. Internets (10 min) (BE)
• Web Application Examples: clinical, educational, research (10) (BE)
• Introduction to Workshop Web Page Resource (5 min, JF)
  • Glossary and Definitions
  • References and Hot List.
• Web Application -- program submission: Forms, CGI, and Scripting (30 min, JF)

Break (10 minutes)

Part Two (55 minutes)

• Web-Database Applications: Client-Server Architecture (15 min, JF)
• Web-Database Applications: WebStar, WEB FM, and FileMaker Pro 3.0 (15 min, JF)
• Web-Database Applications: Patient Data. (JF & BE, 10)
  • What can be done: anything?
  • Browser Interface limitations - Java?
  • How does it work?
• Java and JavaScript: Why all the fuss? (5 min) (JF)
• Issues in Web Application Creation and Maintenance (JF, 10)
  • HTML validation
  • reliability, security, performance
  • content, representation, and structure
  • dependencies
  • static vs. dynamic pages
  • web application generators: Cold Fusion, Tango, Dimension X
• Summary, Review, Intro to Computer Lab, Question and Answer (15) (BE)
• References and Hot List.

Computer Lab (60 minutes)

• Intranet Demonstration (JF)
• Web Server Configuration (JF)
• Form Construction (each team revises template) (JF & BE)
• FileMaker database on Server (BE)
• CGI: demonstrate (have on client machines) (JF)
• client machines access server simultaneously (JF & BE)