Syllabus

CS520 Web Programming

Spring 2008
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Wednesday 6:10pm - 10:00pm, in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: M 2-4pm and WF 3-5pm, or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

This course will pick up where CS320 left off and discuss more advanced topics in web application development. In particular, we will cover fundamentals such as development tools, libraries, frameworks and methodologies that are widely used today, and we will also discuss emerging technologies and research issues that may have an impact on the World Wide Web in the future.

Prerequisites:

CS320

Textbook(s):

Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework, by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg, and Colin Sampaleanu
Java Persistence with Hibernate, by Christian Bauer and Gavin King (or Hibernate in Action by the same authors)

Software Tools:

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

Grading Policy:

Homework and Projects 70%, Midterm Presentation 15%, Final Presentation 15%

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

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative Issues Course Overview Setting Up Development Environment Introduction to Ant Version control with CVS and Subversion
2	Servlet and JSP Review
3	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate
4	Spring - Bean Container and Aspect-Oriented Programming Spring - MVC Framework (I)
5	Spring - MVC Framework (II)
6	File Upload and Email Introduction to Ajax
7	Midterm Presentations
8	Full Text Search Task Scheduling
9	Declarative Security
10	Recommendation Systems
11	Final 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/2.0.x/reference/index.html
Hibernate Reference Manual - http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/

Web Services

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.