Course Description

Major Topics Include

• What is the World-Wide-Web?
• Client-side vs Server-Side design
• Standards bodies: IETF, W3C, OMG, ISO, Section 508, and others
• Typical Web-based Application Infrastructure: TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTTPS
• High-level introduction to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and .NET
• Standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, others
• Client-side Processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, Applets
• Server-side Processing: Servlets, JSPs, ASP.NET
• Coming of Web Services: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
• Explosion in Mobile Computing via the web
• Deployment Issues: Security, Scalability, Concurrent and Parallel Processing Issues
• Introduction to HTML: Text, Images, Anchors, Lists, Tables, Forms, Frames, CSS
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Patterns
• Client-Side processing: JavaScript, VBScript, Flash, and other client-side technologies
• Overview of Java, C# .NET, VB .NET, Perl, C/C++
• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs); Visual Studio, Eclipse, WSAD, JDeveloper, JBuilder, others
• Introduction to J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
• Introduction to Microsoft .NET
• Dynamic Web Pages using JSP and ASP.NET
• Web/Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Oracle AS, others
• Multi-Tier Web-Based Deployment
• Databases supporting Web Applications: Oracle, DB2/UDB, Sql Server, MySql, and others
• Overview of XML: Portability, Validation via DTD and Schema, XML Transformations using XSLT and XSL:FO, Database interactions
• Portabilty of Code: COM, DCOM, CORBA, SOAP, others
• Web Services Introduction: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
• Web Deployment Issues
• Future Directions

Exercises

None. This is a concepts / lecture / discussion session. If time and the environment permits there may be some demonstrations.