Using commercial application servers, students will design and implement a significant programming project using session and entity beans, the Java Transaction API (JTA), and the APIs covered in the first half of the semester.

Additional topics covered may include the Java Messaging Service (JMS) for publish-subscribe applications and security issues for distributed Java systems.
 

• Prerequisite: 605.481 Distributed Development on the World Wide Web or equivalent.
• Strong Java programming skills are assumed.

• Students should be prepared to spend between 6-16 hours a week outside of class.

• Enterprise JavaBeans, Monson-Haefel. O'Reilly, 2000.

• Handouts - class lectures will be made available from this web site. Check this site regularly to locate material that may be covered in following classes.
• Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform,

     Enterprise Edition, Enterprise Team, March 2000 (available on-line at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html#blueprints)
• Java Enterprise in A Nutshell, Flanagan. O'Reilly, 1999. ISBN

     1-56592-483-5 (APIs available online at http://java.sun.com)
• Design Patterns, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, Addison Wesley, 1995.

• Submitted Assignments: 10%
• Graded Projects: 65%
• Final Exam: 25%

 

• Late projects, assignments, or exams will result in a 0 grade unless receiving prior approval!
• Projects can be turned in during the class period they are due or by midnight that same evening by e-mail. Do not use proprietary file formats for projects submitted via e-mail.
• Project documentation must be typed. Figures may be hand drawn. Hand-written text documentation will not be accepted.
• Make-up tests will be provided in the event of a scheduling conflict. Please schedule these well in advance so that an alternate test can be developed.
• Class attendance is highly recommended but not mandatory. The student is responsible for obtaining any written or oral information covered during an absence.
• All work must be completed by the final exam. No incomplete grades will be assigned except in severe emergencies.

• You are encouraged to openly discuss all assignments/projects between members of the class and outside resources. However work submitted must be either the collective work of the group (for graded projects) or the individual (for submitted assignments).
• You may include work by outside sources as a minor part of your assignments/projects. This work must be specifically identified and proper credit assigned.

There will be a more detailed list of links supplied with each topic. The links below are general to the overall course.

• GNU Toolkit - contains many pre-compiled unix tools for the PC including make.
• Programmer's File Editor (Free-ware) - provides a multi-window PC window editing environment.
• gvim vi-style editor (Free-ware) - provides a PC version of the vi editor, both terminal and graphical versions
• Together/J - provides a Java development environment (parts are free and remainder is available for limited time period).
• JBuilder - provides a Java development environment (free).
• PKZIP (shareware version) - provides file archive and compression capabilities.

• Quick Start for Rational Rose (contributed by John Madden) - Provides a download-to-drawing quick tutorial on getting started with Rational Rose.
• Rational UML Resources - This is the place to go for a online learning about UML.

• JHU, Whiting School of Engineering
• Part Time Engineering
• Computer Science Department
• Montgomery County Center