Syllabus

CS520 Web Programming

Fall 2006
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Tuesday 6:10pm - 10:00pm, in E&T A127

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MTW 4:00-6:00pm, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This course will help you decipher the alphabetic soup of web application development: ORM, MVC, IoC, AOP, RPC, RMI, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, RSS, AJAX, DTD, DOM, SAX, RDF, OWL, and of course, XML, XSLT, XSchema, XPath, XQuery, etc. At the end of the course, not only you will understand these concepts and technologies, but also be able to use them effectively in the design and implementation of your web applications.

Prerequisites:

CS320

Textbook(s):

Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse, by Anil Hemrajani
Optional:

Hibernate in Action, by Christian Bauer and Gavin King
Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework, by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg, and Colin Sampaleanu
J2EE Web Services, by Richard Monson-Haefel
Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web, by Thomas B. Passin

Software Tools:

Required - Email and web application development tools.
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Project 80%, Midterm Presentations 20%

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative issues Course overview Introduction to Ant Version control with CVS and Subversion
2	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate
3	Spring - Bean Container and Aspect-Oriented Programming
4	Spring - MVC Framework File Upload and Email
5	Declarative Security and Acegi
6	Full Text Search with Lucene RSS and Atom Feeds
7	Midterm Presentations
8	Introduction to Ajax
9	Recommendation Systems
10	Web Services Semantic Web
11	Project Presentations

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs520/index.html
Class forum - http://acm.calstatela.edu/forum/viewforum.php?f=64
J2EE

Spring Reference Manual - http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/1.2.x/reference/index.html
Hibernate Reference Manual - http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/

Web services

Apache Axis User's Guide - http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html
Google Maps API - http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/
Yahoo! Maps Web Services - http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/
Amazon EcommerceService - http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/sdk/104-9340607-2571908?v=2005%2d09%2d15&s=AWSEcommerceService

Semantic web

W3C Semantic Web - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
SemanticWeb.org - http://www.semanticweb.org/

Selected topics

Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html
AJAX @ developer.mozilla.org - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the Academic Senate.