95-702 Distributed Systems
Project 1
Assigned: Friday, January 24, 2020
Due: Friday, February 7, 2020, 11:59 PM
This project has five objectives:
First, you are introduced to IntelliJ and TomEE. You already have some practice with these.
In this assignment, you'll build several web apps to gain more experience.
Second, you build your first set of distributed systems. These are three small web
applications using Servlets and Java Server Pages.
Third, you are introduced to simple mobile device awareness and adapting content to be
suitable for either desktop or mobile devices.
Fourth, you are introduced to the MVC pattern if you have not used it before.
And finally, as in all projects this semester, you should reflect on the functional and nonfunctional
characteristics (e.g. security, scalability, failure handling, interoperability) of your
solutions. There will be questions on the midterm and final exam concerning these
characteristics. You should be able to demonstrate a nuanced comprehension of course
content and be able to explain the technical aspects in relation to potential real-world
applications.
For each project task, software documentation is required. The software that you write
(Java files and so on) must contain comments that describe what each significant piece of
code is intended to accomplish. Points will be deducted if code is not well documented. Read
the documentation-related links provided on the course schedule (for class #1) to
understand what is expected.
Be sure to consult the rubric linked from the course schedule for details on grading.
Task 1
Use the IntelliJ Project Name: Project1Task1
Create an index.jsp page that asks the user to enter a string of text data, and to make a
choice of two hash functions using radio buttons. The hash function choices should be MD5
and SHA-256, with MD5 being the default. When the submit button is pressed a request is
sent to a servlet. The servlet must be named ComputeHashes.java. The servlet will compute
the requested cryptographic hash value (MD5 or SHA-256) from the text transmitted by the
browser. You will need to employ the Java crypto API to compute the hash of the text. The
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original text will be echoed back to the browser along with the name of the hash, and the
hash value. The hash values sent back to the browser should be displayed in two forms: as
hexadecimal text and as base 64 notation. We will discuss the use of such hash values later
in the course.
To compute the MD5 and SHA-256 hashes, use these standard java packages:
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
To print the Base64 encoding, use the following method:
javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary
To print the hexadecimal encoding, use the following method:
javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary
Be sure to provide a simple and user friendly interface.
If you are unfamiliar with HTML forms, a simple explanation can be found at:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp .
Be sure to create screen shots of your working application and submit them as described in
the Submission section at the end of this document.
Task 2
Use IntelliJ Project Name: Project1Task2
You can choose one of two alternative tasks, Task 2a or Task 2b
Task 2a
For task 2a, build a web application that searches for images of migratory birds from the
Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute's bird photo gallery at
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/featured_photo/
This site provides drop-down boxes to let you choose a bird by name or a photographer by
name; it displays a number of photographs of birds depending on the choices.
For your program, screen scrape the bird photographs and photographer credits in the
following manner. First, provide a text box for the user to enter any bird name. This should
look something like Figure 1 (include your name as author):
Figure 1
Next, match the user's text to the list of birds from the National Zoo's dropdown box. You
should copy these names from their site and store them in your program as strings. You can
store them in a text file and read them on startup, but if you do, use a relative path name –
that is, put the file in the project somewhere. If the file causes a problem during grading,
points will be deducted. Populate your own dropdown box dynamically with at most 10 bird
names, chosen at random from any names that match the user's text (case insensitive).
This should look something like Figure 2 (user chose "owl" in Figure 1):
When the user chooses one of the names from the dropdown box and presses "Submit",
search for a photograph of that bird by screen-scraping for links to photographs; also find
the associated photographer's name. There will likely be many such links – store only the
first 20 that you find, then choose one of them, at random, to display, along with the
photographer's name and a credit to the National Zoo. See Figure 3 for an example.
Figure 2
Figure 3
Note: You'll need to change the space to a '+' when you when you query the Zoo site for a
bird name containing space character(s). Apostrophes in the name may also cause
problems, depending on how you handle them.
When the user presses the "Continue" button, return to the original display of Figure 1. If
the bird cannot be found or if a request to the Zoo site fails, then display an appropriate
error message as well as the ability to choose another bird name.
Screen scraping is programmatically processing the HTML that typically is displayed by a
browser and can be a useful tool when your data source does not have an API that provides
structured data. Instead, you can search or parse the HTML to find and extract the data
that you need.
(For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping)
Your application should work similarly to InterestingPicture, but instead of searching Flickr, it
will use the National Zoo site. Don't overthink the string matching; this does not require any
sophisticated regular expression processing – you might get bird names that contain the
user's search string but are not actual names, like "owl" inside "Meadowlark" – that's fine.
Adapting to mobile:
There are two ways to adapt your web app to mobile.
• Device detection: The server detects, using the user-agent header, whether the client
is a mobile device or a desktop device. This is how InterestingPicture works. This is
not best practice, but it is acceptable for this assignment.
• Feature detection and responsive design: The client (browser) adapts the displayed
content given its own characteristics (e.g. screen size). This is the current best
practice and requires the use of JavaScript and/or CSS. We will provide to you an
example client solution that you can adapt if you choose. Watch for it to be
announced via Piazza.
Notes and hints:
• Refer to http://www.w3schools.com for good help on the basic HTML you need for
this task.
• You are allowed to and encouraged to build your solution based on the
InterestingPicture code you have been given in class. You MUST refactor it, however,
to have project, variable, and class names that make sense for your application. For
example, you will lose points if your class is still named InterestingPictureServlet.
• You do not need to, but you are welcome to, use jsoup (https://jsoup.org/) which is a
Java HTML Parser.
o The downsides of using jsoup are you will first need to understand the Document
Object Model (DOM) and CSS Selectors. These are both useful to know.
o The upside of using jsoup is that it makes it much easier to find and select content
from HTML (i.e. screen scrape).
• SSLHandshakeException
o Some sites require you to make https, not http requests. When you do so from
your Java program, you will hit an SSLHandshakeException. We will be covering SSL
and related topics in a few weeks. In the meantime, you will have to deal with this
exception.
§ If you use jsoup, you should use validateTLSCertificates(false). (Refer to the jsoup
API to understand this when you need it.)
§ If you do not use jsoup, here is a code to replace the fetch method in
InterestingPictureModel to ignore the exception:
https://gist.github.com/joemertz/d4336933c1902de66af5f27a45dd1ab0
• Track Piazza for additional hints and answers to questions. Produce screen shots
showing three different birds.
Alternatively, you can create a screencast video of your working web app, again
demonstrating all of the above requirements.
• The video cannot be more than 3 minutes long
• You may use an audio voiceover, but you do not need to
• You should publish the video as 'Unlisted' to YouTube. (See more discussion on
this in the Submission section below.)
• Include the URL of the YouTube video in a document in the Project1Task2
Description folder that you submit.
Alternative Task 2b
You may choose to develop your own web app idea that uses screen scraping. Your
application should do the following:
1. Have a welcome page that gives the user directions. The welcome page should
include text field(s) or selection menu(s) and a submit button.
2. Based on the input from the user, your web app should screen scrape some web site
and:
a. Extract some information from it,
b. Manipulate, combine, analyze, sum, or in some way do something with the
extracted information,
c. Return the results of this to the user for display.
3. Allow the user to change their input and submit again from the results page.
4. Handle failure gracefully
For example, you might screen scrape cricket information from cricruns.com and allow the
user to select a country and range of years and return the combined win/loss record over
those years.
You should check the Terms of Use of any site you intend to use to make sure that the site
does not explicitly disallow screen scraping. For example, the official NHL web site disallows
any use to "Engage in unauthorized spidering, scraping, or harvesting of content or
information, or use any other unauthorized automated means to compile information"
(https://www.nhl.com/info/terms-of-service)
It is acceptable to use a site that has an API, but you are not allowed to use the API to
return structured data. For this assignment you must fetch HTML and process it (i.e. screen
scrape).
Because your web app will work differently than the default one, it is in your best interest to
explain to the grading TA exactly how it works. Therefore, create a document that includes:
1. Screen shots of your working web application
2. Screen shot of your web application gracefully failing (to test, turn off your wifi so
that the HTTP request to source of your data fails).
3. A description of how the web application meets requirements 1-4 above.
Alternatively you can create a screencast video of your working web app.
• The video cannot be more than 3 minutes long
• An audio voiceover should explain what your application does and how it meets
requirements 1-4 above.
• You should publish the video as 'Unlisted' to YouTube. (See more discussion on this in
the Submission section below.)
• Include the URL of the YouTube video in a document in the Project1Task2 Description
folder that you submit.
Task 3a – Default task (You may do this regardless of whether you did Task 2a or 2b)
Use the IntelliJ Project Name: Project1Task3
Implement a web application that implements a simple desktop and mobile “clicker” for
class. Your app should allow users to submit
answers to questions posed in class, and
should provide a separate URL end point for
getting the results of the submitted
responses.
The welcome page for your app should be
similar to the picture on the right. You can
make it more stylish if you like, but it is not
required.
When the user makes a choice and hits “submit”,
their answer should be stored in your MVC model.
The response should be similar to the picture on the
left.
Notice that it is required to provide feedback to the
user regarding the choice that they made (i.e. “D” in
this example).
The user should also have the ability to submit
another answer as shown in the screenshot.
You can test the application by
repeatedly submitting answers and
allowing your model to tally the
results.
Your web app should also have a URL
path “/getResults” (shown on the
right) for listing the results of user
voting.
Requirements for the /getResults path:
1. List each answer that has been given, and the number of times a user has submitted
that answer.
2. You do not have to list options that have been chosen zero times.
3. The results should be displayed sorted in alphabetical order.
4. /getResults should also clear the stored results
so that a new question can be posed.
5. If there are no results available, then report this
as shown on the right.
Note that requirement 4 does not adhere to the HTTP
standard for a GET request. You should understand why this is bad behavior according to
the standard, and how you could fix it (It might be on the exam).
The web app should work with a mobile browser. For this project you can use a simple
check like the one that was used in InterestingPicture
and then use an appropriate mobile doctype.
An easy way to check your web app for mobile is to
use the Google Chrome DevTools
Using the Google Chrome browser.
• Browse to your web application in Chrome
• Access the Chrome DevTools
(https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/?hl=en#access-devtools).
• Toggle device mode to mobile and choose an Android or iPhone device
(https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/iterate/device-mode/?hl=en)
• Reload the page.
• In addition to testing, you use this to produce a screen shot showing your web app
working for mobile.
If your page looks like the one on the right, even after reloading, then the doctype is not
being set correctly.
This is what the web app should look like for mobile if the
doctype is set correctly.
Overall web app requirements:
• You must use MVC to separate concerns.
• Use appropriate HTTP methods
(i.e. not just GET)
• Implement only one HttpServlet
Hints:
• You can have multiple URL patterns in a WebServlet
annotation. For example, you can indicate that a
servlet can be called by two paths such as:
urlPatterns = {"/submit", "/getResults"}
• In order to determine within the servlet which path
was actually requested, you can use request.getServletPath();
Produce screen shots of your application:
• With the answer options on desktop
• With the getResults on desktop
• With the answer options on mobile
• With the getResults on mobile
Alternatively you can create a screencast video of your working web app.
• The video cannot be more than 3 minutes long
• You may use an audio voiceover, but you do not need to
• You should publish the video as 'Unlisted' to YouTube. (See more discussion on this in
the Submission section below.)
• Include the URL of the YouTube video in a document in the Project1Task3 Description
folder that you submit.
Alternative Task 3b (You may do this regardless of whether you did Task 2a or 2b)
Implement all requirements of Task 3a, but instead of asking “Submit your answer to the
current question” and providing alternatives “A, B, C, and D”, give the user alternatives from
the information you have screen scraped and ask them to vote for one.
For example, if you implemented Task 2a, then Task 3b could give several images from the
National Zoo matching a search string and allow the user to vote for their favorite.
If you did Task 2b screen scraping statistics of badminton players from a given country,
then you could have the user choose their favorite badminton player.
All other requirements for Task 3 apply.
Because your web app will work differently than the default task, it is in your best interest
to explain to the grading TA exactly how it works. Therefore, create a document that
includes:
1. Screen shots of your working web application.
2. A description of how the user should use it (e.g. what would be valid input).
Alternatively you can create a screencast video of your working web app.
• The video cannot be more than 3 minutes long
• An audio voiceover should explain what your application does and how to use it.
• You should publish the video as 'Unlisted' to YouTube. (See more discussion on this in
the Submission section below.)
• Include the URL of the YouTube video in a document in the Project1Task3 Description
folder that you submit.
Questions:
If you have questions, you can post them to the class Piazza and tag them as “Project1”.
Summary & Submission:
Be sure to review the Rubric linked on the course schedule for the first day.
Video sharing rights: If you are creating screencast videos, then you should set the YouTube
sharing rights 'Unlisted' when publishing to YouTube. There are three types of sharing rights
on YouTube: Public, Private and Unlisted. You do not want other students to be able to see
your video (that would be cheating), and ‘Unlisted’ restricts viewing to only those who have
your URL.
Be sure you have named your IntelliJ project folders correctly.
For each IntelliJ project, File->Export Project->To Zip… each. You must export in this way
and NOT just zip the IntelliJ project folders.
You should also have three description folders:
Project1Task1 Description
Project1Task2 Description
Project1Task3 Description
The description folders contain the mandatory screenshots and the optional descriptions if
you chose to customize the task2 and task3. An optional description can either be a single
document or a link to the video showing your work. (If you upload your video to YouTube,
make sure your video is selected as ‘unlisted’.)
Now you should have for .zip files and three description folders:
Mac OS
Create a new empty folder named with your Andrew id (very important). Put all files
mentioned above in to the new folder you created.
Windows 10
Mac OS
Zip that folder, and submit it to Canvas. The submission should be a single zip file.
Now you should have only one .zip file named with your Andrew id:
Submission File Structure:
YourAndrewID.zip
--- Project1Task1.zip
--- Project1Task2.zip
--- Project1Task3.zip
--- Project1Task1 Description
--- Project1Task2 Description
--- Project1Task3 Description

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