Syllabus

CS520 Web Programming

Spring 2014
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Monday and Wednesday 11:40am - 1:20pm in E&T A309

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: M 3-5pm and W 1:30-3:30pm or by appointment in E&T A317

Teaching Assistants:

Eric Liao, rcliao01@gmail.com, Office Hours: M 9:30-11:30am and W 9-11am in E&T A309
Alice Tian, xtian@calstatela.edu, Office Hours: T 8-10am 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 development tools, libraries, frameworks, and methodologies that help create sophisticated, robust, and maintainable web applications. Emerging technologies and research issues related to the Web will also be discussed.

Prerequisites:

CS320

References:

Spring in Action (3nd Ed), by Craig Walls.
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, by Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio, Josh Long.
Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java Persistence API, by Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol.

Software Tools:

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

Grading Policy:

Homework and Projects 60%, Exercises 10%, 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 Setting Up Development Environment Java Annotations Servlet and JSP Review
2	Introduction to Maven Version Control with Subversion
3	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate and JPA
4	Spring - Inversion of Control Spring - Aspect-Oriented Programming
5	Spring - Web MVC
6	Bits and Pieces of Web Programming Introduction to Ajax and jQuery
7	Midterm Presentations
8	Declarative Security
9	Memorial Day Full Text Search
10	Introduction to Web Services
11	Final Presentations

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs520/index.html
Class forum - http://csns.calstatela.edu/department/cs/forum/view?id=32002
Java EE

Java EE 6 API documentation - http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/

JSTL 1.1 Tag Reference - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/products/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.html

JSP 2.1 Specification (pdf)

Java Servlet 2.4 Specification (pdf)

Java Servlet 3.0 Specification (pdf)

Spring Framework

Spring 3.1 Reference Manual - http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/
Spring 3.1 API - http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/javadoc-api/
Spring Security Reference Guide - http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/reference.html

Hibernate and JPA

JPA 2.0 Specification (pdf)
JPA 2.0 API - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/documentation/jpa-2.0-api/overview-summary.html
Hibernate Reference Manual - http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/core/reference/en/html/
TopLink JPA Annotation Reference - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/toplink-jpa-annotations-096251.html

JavaScript and AJAX

AJAX @ developer.mozilla.org - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
jQuery - http://jquery.com/
jQuery UI - http://jqueryui.com/

Full Text Search

Full Text Search in PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/textsearch.html
Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/

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.