Fall 2003, CMSC 838P: Enterprise Applications

Professor: Bill Pugh

MW, 2:00pm-3:15pm, CSIC 3120

Homeworks

Due Sept 10th. Write a simple command-line application that connections to a database via JDBC
Due Sept 24th. Use Servlets and/or JSP.

Projects

Due Oct 6th. Use servlets/JSP and JDBC to provide a simple web interface to a database
Due Nov 5th. A real web service for a real customer.
Due Nov 8th. Entity and session EJBs.

Exam

Topics

Date	Topic	Notes
Sept 3rd	Virtual class (Prof traveling).	Everyone enter data into the course snipsnap/wiki/weblog.
Sept 8th	Relational databases	(Slides) (Slides, 4/page)
Sept 10th	JDBC
Sep 15th	Servlets and JSP	Slides jGuru JSP short course
Sep 17th	More Servlets and JSP	Slides jGuru JSP short course
Sep 17th	Model-1 vs. MVC/Model-2 architectures	Java world article Architecting the Web Layer
Sep 22nd	JSP 2.0 and JSTL	devx article
Sep 29th	Eclipse	Slides
Oct 1st	Ant	Ali's presentation on Ant Ant Using the Apache Group's Ant Build Tool A gentle introduction to Ant Developing J2EE applications with Ant Ken Arnold on Ant
Nov 3rd	Persistence and JDO	JavaOne talk on Persistence and JDO Che-Rung Lee's talk on JDO
Nov 12th	EJB	EJB overview and session beans 4-up format
Nov 17th	EJB entity beans	JNDI, IIOP and Entity beans Entity Methods
Nov 19th	RUBiS	Design Review of RUBiS
Dec 10th	Sun j2ee 1.4 RI	Ear file for configured cmp roster example from j2ee tutorial

Description

In this course, we will study the technologies used to build enterprise applications and look at the design, reliability and performance issues related to building enterprise applications.

We will also learn some of the industrial strength tools used in building enterprise applications, including tools such as Ant and Eclipse.

Primarily, this is a technology course, rather than a research course. I believe that there are many interesting research questions associated with enterprise applications. Before we can examine those research issues, we need to become familiar with the technologies and architectures used in enterprise applications.

Some of the topics we will cover include:

Design patterns and architectures for enterprise applications
All of J2EE, including
- JDBC
- Servlets and JSP
- Enterprise Java Beans
- Java Transactional API
- Java Messaging Service
Web services, SOAP, etc in both Java and C#
PHP
Eclipse, Ant and Maven
Refactoring
Security of enterprise applications
Papers on benchmarking of enterprise applications

There will be substantial experimental/programming component to the course, much of it in teams. Students will be expected to:

Install, configure, run and profile a J2EE implementation
Profile a common application (probably ECperf)
- Rework and redesign the application for better code quality and higher performance.
Implement a common enterprise application from scratch
- Everyone builds their own implementation of an application that everyone else is implementing
Design and build their own enterprise application (everyone doing something different)

Because of the focus on technology rather than research topics, and the focus on projects rather than exams, this course will not count towards either the MS or PhD comprehensive requirements. The course grade will be primarily project based.

The course will count towards the Ph.D. requirement for general seminar courses in item 3 of Section 8.4a of the revised graduate policy manual, and towards the MS requirement for graduate credits.

Students will be expected to prepare and give class presentations both on the technologies being learned and their own work in the course.

All students will be expected and required to be proficient Java programmers on the first day or class.

Undergraduates may register with permission of the instructor.

Textbook

We will be doing a lot of reading from on-line sources. However, to give us a common reference point, we will use Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition by Richard Monson-Haefel, published by O'Reilly.