CS520 Web Programming

Summer 2015
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Wednesday in E&T A309 and A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MF 2-4pm or by appointment in E&T A317

Teaching Assistants:

Misha Chandan, mchanda@calstatela.edu, Office Hours: Thursday 3:30-5:30pm in CS Department Office
Harsh Gadhia, hgadhia@calstatela.edu, Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-5:30pm in CS Department Office

Course Description:

This course will pick up where CS320 left off and discuss 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:

CS320

References:

Spring in Action by Craig Walls.
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Marten Deinum, Josh Long, Gary Mak, Daniel Rubio.
Pro JPA 2 by Mike Keith, Merrick Schincariol.
Speaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer.
Learning jQuery by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg.

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 45%, Exercises 5%, Midterm 25%, 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 Servlet and JSP Review
2	Introduction to Maven Version Control with Subversion
3	Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate and JPA
4	Spring - Inversion of Control Spring - Aspect-Oriented Programming
5	Spring - Web MVC
6	Bits and Pieces of Web Programming (I) Introduction to Ajax and jQuery
7	Midterm
8	Declarative Security
9	Bits and Pieces of Web Programming (II) Full Text Search
10	Introduction to Web Services
11	Final

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://csns.calstatela.edu/site/x15/cs520-1
Class forum - http://csns.calstatela.edu/department/cs/forum/view?id=32002
Safari Books Online - http://mimas.calstatela.edu/login?url=http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=calstate
Java EE
- Java EE 6 API documentation - http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/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 2.1 Specification (pdf)
- Java Servlet 3.0 Specification (pdf)
Spring Framework
- Spring 3.2 Reference - http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.13.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/html/
- Spring 3.2 API - http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.13.RELEASE/javadoc-api/overview-summary.html
- Spring Security 3.2 Reference - http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/3.2.5.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/
Hibernate and JPA
- JPA 2.0 Specification (pdf)
- JPA 2.0 API - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/documentation/jpa-2.0-api/overview-summary.html
- Hibernate 4.3 Reference - http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html/
- 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 Academic Senate.