Comp 388/442: Server-Side Software Development

All information now current for the fall 2007 semester

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General Info

• Class schedule: Thursday 18:50-21:20 (suggested break 20:00-20:10)
• Class location: Water Tower Campus, Room LT-412 (Linux lab)
• Instructor contact information
• Office hour
• Mailing list
• Catalog description: 442
• Prerequisites: 313 or equivalent (as determined by the department): knowledge of Java, data structures, and fair sophistication with OOP — some experience with designing interacting, cooperating classes typical for an intermediate discussion of software patterns. For example, this material is covered by the first eight chapters (excluding the material on graphical user interfaces) of the text by Jia listed below.
• Ground rules (including policies on late submissions and grade disputes)
• Grading (tentative):
  • Semester-long project: 50%
  • Three to four quizzes: 25%
  • Final quiz: 20%
  • Mailing list participation: 5%
  • Late projects cannot be accepted without severe penalties.
  • You may talk about the projects with your fellow students, but you must not share code or any other written material.
• Required text(s). (The official university policy is to recommend the campus bookstore, where I have submitted book requests for this class. I have also submitted book requests to Beck's Book Store. You may choose to purchase your books at the campus bookstore or at a provider of your choosing.)
  • No Required Text
• Recommended texts:
  • Title: Pro Spring (available free on Books 24x7)
    Authors: Rob Harrop & Jan Machacek
    Publisher: Apress
    ISBN: 1590594614
  • Title: Struts Design and Programming: A Tutorial (available free on Books 24x7)
    Authors: Budi Kurniawan
    Publisher: Brainy Software Corp.
    ISBN: 0975212818
  • Title: Beginning Hibernate: From Novice to Professional (available free on Books 24x7)
    Authors: Dave Minter and Jeff Linwood
    Publisher: Apress
    ISBN: 9781590596937
  • Title: Java Precisely, 2nd Ed. (available free on Books 24x7)
    Author: Peter Sestoft
    Publisher: The MIT Press
    ISBN: 0262693259
  • Title: Object Oriented Software Development Using Java, 2nd Ed.
    Author: Xiaoping Jia
    Publisher: Addison Wesley
    ISBN: 0201737337
    Companion website: here
• Other relevant texts:
  • The Sun Java Tutorial: A practical guide for programmers (online)
  • Title: The Spring Primer
    Author: Matt Raible
    Publisher: SourceBeat
    E-book available here
  • Title: User Interface Design for Programmers
    Author: Joel Spolsky
    Publisher: APress
    ISBN: 1893115941
    Free online version: here
  • Title: Effective Java: Programming Language Guide
    Author: Joshua Bloch
    Publisher: Addison-Wesley
    ISBN: 0201310058
  • Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, 2/E
    by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi
    Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR / Sun Microsystems Press
    Copyright: 2003
    ISBN: 0-13-142246-4
    Online companion for this text (includes patterns catalog!)
  • Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work
    by Tom Brinck
    Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
    Copyright: 2001
    ISBN: 1558606580
  • Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition
    Inderjeet Singh, Beth Stearns, Mark Johnson
    Publisher: Addison-Wesley
    ISBN: 0201787903
    Copyright: 2002
    A freely accessible online version of this text is available!
• Other related texts:
  • Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including
    Ant, JUnit, and Cactus
    by Richard Hightower, Nicholas Lesiecki
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (December 15, 2001)
    ISBN: 047120708X
    Online version of this text
  • Greg Barish, Building Scalable and High-Performance Java Web Applications Using J2EE, Addison-Wesley, December 2001, ISBN: 0201729563
  • Marty Hall, More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Prentice-Hall, December 2001, ISBN: 0130676144
  • Falkner et al., Beginning JSP Web Development, Wrox Press, August 2001, ISBN: 1861002092
  • Brown et al., Professional JSP 2nd Edition, Wrox Press, April 2001, ISBN: 1861004958
  • Dov Bulka, Java Performance and Scalability, Volume 1: Server-Side Programming Techniques, Addison-Wesley, June 2000, ISBN: 0201704293
  • Ted Neward, Server-Based Java Programming, Manning Publications Co., July 2000, ISBN: 1884777716 (also available as an e-book for a fraction of the price)