Dynamic web pages contain server-side code which interpreted by web application server.

The project will be implemented using Netbeans, a popular IDE for Java. Static web pages only contain HTML, CSS and JavaScript code which are interpreted by the browser. HTML – HyperText Makeup Langugae CSS – Cascading Style Sheet JavaScript – Client-side language Dynamic web pages contain server-side code which interpreted by web application server. Server-side languages – Java, C#, Python, PHP, … A web-based application consists of a group of dynamic web pages. Tomcat Server includes a web server and a servlet/JSP engine. MVC (Model-View_Controller) design model separates the web application code into a model, a view, and a controller. Views are html pages and JSP pages. The Model consists of business objects, for example, in the Course Registration System, the user objects and course objects. The controller consists of servlets. A servlet is simply a Java class which responds to a particular type of network request – most commonly an HTTP request. Basically, servlets are usually used to implement web applications. It controls the flow of the web applications. A JavaServer page consists of special Java tags such as Expression Language tags that are embedded within HTML code. Through the Expression Language tags, the JavaServer pages can access data provided by servlets. HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol