CS5220 Advanced Topics in Web Programming

Spring 2017
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm - 3:15pm in SH C164A

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 5-7pm or by appointment in E&T A317

Course Description:

This course picks up where CS3220 (formerly CS320) left off and discusses more advanced topics in web application development. In particular, we will cover development tools, libraries, frameworks, and methodologies that help create sophisticated, robust, and maintainable web applications. Emerging technologies and research issues related to the Web will also be discussed.

Prerequisites:

CS3220 (formerly CS320)

References:

Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
Java Persistence with Hibernate by Gavin King, Christian Bauer, and Gary Gregory.
Spring in Action by Craig Walls.
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Marten Deinum, Josh Long, Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio.
Speaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer.
Practical jQuery by Mukund Chaudhary and Ankur Kumar.

All of these books are available on Safari Books Online (use your AD username and password to log in).

Software Tools:

Email and web application development tools.
MS PowerPoint for accessing online lecture notes.

Grading Policy:

Homework and Projects 55%, Labs 5%, Midterm 15%, Final 25%

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics
1	Administrative Issues Setting Up Development Environment Lab: Servlet and JSP
2	From Make to Maven: Understand Build and Build Tools Version Control with Git (I)
3	Version Control with Git (II)
4	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate and JPA (I)
5	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate and JPA (II) Spring - Inversion of Control
6	Spring - Aspect-Oriented Programming Spring - Web MVC (I)
7	Spring - Web MVC (II)
8	Declarative Security
9	MIDTERM
10	Spring Break
11	Web Services
12	JavaScript
13	Client-Side JavaScript and jQuery
14	AJAX Operations
15	Bits and Pieces of Web Programming
16	Full Text Search
17	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://csns.calstatela.edu/site/s17/cs5220-1
Class forum - http://csns.calstatela.edu/department/cs/forum/view?id=4933102
Safari Books Online - http://mimas.calstatela.edu/login?url=http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=calstate
Java EE
- Java EE 7 API documentation - http://download.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/
- JSTL 1.1 Tag Reference - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/products/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/tlddocs/index.html
- JSP 2.2 Specification (pdf)
- Java Servlet 3.0 Specification (pdf)
Spring Framework
- Spring Framework Reference - http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/
- Spring Framework API - http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/
- Spring Security Reference - http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/html/
Hibernate and JPA
- JPA 2.0 Specification (pdf)
- JPA 2.1 Specification (pdf)
- JPA 2.0 API - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/documentation/jpa-2.0-api/overview-summary.html
- Hibernate Documentation - http://hibernate.org/orm/documentation/
- TopLink JPA Annotation Reference - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/toplink-jpa-annotations-096251.html
JavaScript and AJAX
- AJAX @ developer.mozilla.org - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
- jQuery - http://jquery.com/
- jQuery UI - http://jqueryui.com/
Full Text Search
- Full Text Search in PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/textsearch.html
- Apache Lucene - http://lucene.apache.org/

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the department for further disciplinary actions.