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Dates

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:49:00 +0100

Guidelines and dates > Dates

Students MUST enroll via the Esse3 system.

Projects must be dilivered 4 days befor the exam date, After project delivery, students will receive an e-mail with the exact time of the exam (so that they will not have to wait for the other exams to finish). Location of the exam will be the teacher\'s office, in the old faculty building.

Here are links to student...

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0200

Blogs >

Here are links to students\' blogs relative to this course.

Videos of the course were...

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:54:00 +0200

Videos >

Videos of the course were recorded during a.y. 2008-9. Although some material is by now dated, most of it still retains its validity (for sure the conceptual level does).

Hence we report here a link to the course\'s videos, as they may be still useful.

Lecture 1 - Sept. 16 - Ov...

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:46:00 +0200

Lectures >

Lecture 1 - Sept. 16 - Overview of web architectures - download slides
Note: if you missed this lecture, you can get the video of a previous year with almost the same content:

download video (106 Mb)

View video on line

Lecture 2 - Sept 27 - XML - download slides - XSLT - download slides Note: if you missed this lecture, you can get a video with almost the same content:

download video (152 Mb)

View video on line

Assignment:

download Apache Xalan - install it - try the example in Xalan-Java Overview
ZVON XSLT Tutorial
ZVON Interactive Lab

Lecture 3 - Sept 30 - - JAXP - download slides - Note: if you missed this lecture, you can get a video with almost the same content:

download video

View video on line

Lecture 4 - Oct 4 - XML Schema - download slides - Note: if you missed this lecture, you can get a video with almost the same content:

download video

View video on line

Lecture 5 - Oct 7 - XPath & XML Serialization download slides

Lecture 6 - Oct 11 - Servlets download slides

Lecture 7 - Oct 14 - JSP download slides

Beginning & Intermediate Servlet & JSP Tutorials

Lecture 8 - Oct 18 - Filters - Custom Tags download slides

Lecture 9 - Oct 21 - ECMAScript download slides

Lecture 10 - Oct 25 - RMI

download slides
Prerequirements for this lecture:
- Sockets (see this tutorial)
- Multithreading (see this tutorial)
If you want to know more about RMI: see this tutorial

Lecture 10 - Oct 25 - Introduction to EJB

download slides
Look at the "Resources" section above - you\'ll find two books on EJB. I strongly suggest reading them!

Lecture 11 - Nov 3 - Introduction to EJB 3.0

same slides as last time
JNDI: slides

Lecture 12 - Nov 8 - JNDI example session beans

same slides as last time
how NOT to use stateless beans: zipped project

Lecture 13 - Nov 11 - Persistence

slides

Lecture 14 - Nov 15 - Persistence Transactions

Pesistence: same slides as last time
Transactions: slides

Lecture 15 - Nov 18 - Transactions EJB patterns

Transactions: same slides as last time
EJB patterns: slides

Lecture 16 - Nov 22 - Introduction to Hibernate

slides: pdf
Link to a comprehensive tutorial using Eclipse: Vaan Nila

Lecture 17 - Nov 25 - MVC Model 2 and Introduction to Struts2

slides: pdf

Lecture 18 - Nov 29 - MVC Model 2 and Introduction to Struts2 CSS

slides: css

Lecture 19 - Dec 6 - CSS Ajax

slides: ajax

Lecture 20 - Dec 13 - HTML5 CSS3

A book on EJB 3.0. This i...

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:38:00 +0200

Resources >

A book on EJB 3.0. This is the technology we use.
Mastering EJB 3.0

A full understanding of the EJB model requires also knowledge of concepts described in the older version of EJB. Hence the following book is also strongly suggested:
Mastering EJB 2.1

Project and Exam

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:24:00 +0200

Guidelines and dates > Project and Exam

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THIS SECTION!

The exam consist in the demonstration of understanding and command of the technologies we examined in the course. This will happen through the presentation of a final project and a discussion.

The project consist in a web application, which MUST to be divided into multiple tiers. The application domain can be anything of your choice. The project is INDIVIDUAL: no joint projects.

There must be a web tier (implemented using JEE technology), a business logic tier (implemented using EJB) and a persistency tier (implemented with a database and accessed through a persistency layer, which must be implemented using Hibernate. We expect the BL tier to be composed by both stateless and stateful beans - justification for the choices will be asked. The student will have to solve the problem of how to split the state persistency between the web and the application server, and will have to justify the choices. Sensible use of design patterns is required.

The system should show an as clean as possible separation between content and presentation.

A nice look and an attention to the user friendliness will be poitively evaluated.

The existence of transactions (or their absence) must be justified.

Sensible use of other optional technologies (whether they were discussed in the course, like XSLT, or not discussed, as Spring) is not requested but it is possible and, in case, will be positively evaluated.

During the exam students are expected to run the application on their machine.

The student will be asked to describe and demonstrate their system. They can be asked to explain or modify portions of their code. Questions about other technologies discussed in the course (such as Remote Objects or XML) will be asked - even if they are not used in an explicit manner in the project.

Students are rquired to send their project in a zip file to marco.ronchetti@unitn.it at least THREE days before the exam date. The zip file should include the source code, configuration files, and a report describing the project. The report should briefly describe the domain, the allowed operations, the system architecture. the used patterns and UML should be used. Students are highly encouraged to keep a blog where they report the progress of their work, the problems encountered and the solutions found (look at blogspot or wordpress to get one free). The presence of a blog will be positively evaluated.

The starting point in your evaluation will be based on the project. A standard, well done, basic project, without extra technologies will give a starting score of 28/30. Additional technologies will allow you to reach 30/30. Failure to respond correctly to questions, conceptual shortcomings in the implementation, failures in the understanding the used technologies on in the ability of explaining the choices and poor reports will then decrease the score.

Students MUST to be famil...

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:22:00 +0200

Prerequirements >

Students MUST to be familiar with:

programming in Java
the concept of design patterns
object oriented modelling (e.g. UML)
accessing Databases from program code (i.e. JDBC)
basic networking and basic notions TCP-IP
working with the command-line (concepts of Path, Classpath, ability to excute commands from a shell as opposed to using GUI)
basic HTML