Internet Programming

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159.339 Internet Programming Computer
Science Massey University at Albany
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Lecturer
Dr. Christopher Messom (first half) Dr Ian Bond
(second half) Phone [phone] ext 9323 Office
2.58 Quad A EmailC.H.Messom_at_massey.ac.nz
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Lectures
3 lectures/tutorials per week Mon 1200 nn
100hr AT7 Tues 1100 am 100hr AT5(NOT
AT7) Wed 1100 am 100hr AT7 Lab/Tutorials F
ri 100 pm 100hr CLATR4
Office Hours One hour after each Lecture or by
appointment
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Text and Course Material

• There are numerous PHP/MySQL and J2EE books in
  the library
• e.g. PHP, MySQL and Apache all in one by J C
  Meloni
• e.g. The J2EE Tutorial by Stepahie Bodoff et al.
• or available online
• The Java EE 5 Tutorial (http//java.sun.com/javaee
  /5/docs/tutorial/doc/)
• by Eric Jendrock et al.
• It is recommended that you read these or the
  many other alternative books on PHP, J2EE and
  MySQL available in the library.
• Some lecture notes are available from
  http//www.massey.ac.nz/chmessom/159339

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Assessment

• The course will be assessed by a combination of
  practical and theoretical work.
• There will be 2 practical assignments and one
  three hour exam. The exam will be a CLOSED BOOK
  exam.
• The marks for this course will be divided as
  follows
• Item of Total
• Ass1 15
• Ass2 15
• Mid-Semester Test 15
• Final Exam 55
• There will be several additional labs and
  exercises that will not be graded

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Course Outline

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Introduction to Client Side Technologies
• 3. Introduction to PHP programming
• 4. Database Access
• 5. Servlets
• 6. Enterprise Java Beans

• 7. J2EE Applications
• 8. Web services and XML based internet
  programming
• 9. Web Services Case Studies
• 10. Alternative Internet Programming Technologies
  
• 11. Cluster and Grid Computing
• 12. Peer to Peer Computing

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What is Internet Programming ?

• Technologies that support Web based applications
• Server Side Application Programming
• Client side programming
• Database driven applications
• Common Web Based design patterns

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What is not Internet Programming ?

• Low level network programming
• Socket level programming
• Implementing Network Protocols
• TCP/IP, UDP
• Clientside Graphical User Interfaces

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Technologies that support Web based applications

• Open Standards
• Browsers
• HTML, javascript
• Network Protocols
• TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP etc
• Servers
• Web Servers, Server side programming environments
• Operating Systems
• Linux, BSD unix, GNU software

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Server Side Application Programming

• Web servers
• Apache, Netscape Application Server, IIS server
  etc.
• CGI programming, FastCGI, server api, perl, PHP
• Application Servers
• Sun ONE J2EE server, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere,
  tomcat, jboss, jonas etc.

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Client side programming

• Browser Based Clients
• HTML DHTML
• Applets
• Clients run in a sand box, secure environment
• Application Based Clients
• Heavy and Light Clients with full access to local
  machine

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Database driven applications

• Upto Date web content
• Ease of Management
• Flexibility in Delivery
• Multiple output formats
• Individualised Web Content

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Common Web Based design patterns

• Shopping Carts
• Session Façade
• Model-View-Controller
• Web Services
• User Login

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Summary

• Main points to remember
• What Internet Programming is.
• What Internet Programming is not.