CSE691 - Comparative Platforms

Each Class starts with a Lecture and Ends with an in-class Assignment

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Comparative Platforms examines web programming models on both client and server sides for three different platforms. A fairly simple web infrastructure based on LAMP: Linux (OS), Apache (WebServer), MySQL (database), and PHP (server-side programming) An event-based programming model provided by ASP.Net - Active Server Pages, with Windows (OS), IIS (Webserver), SQLserver (database), and C# (server-side programming) An enterprise oriented infrastrature provided by Java EE5 - Java Server Pages running on Linux (OS) with open source web server and database provided as part of the enterprise suite and Java (server-side programming). This is the most complex of the three platforms. A Web client is usually a browser, but may also be a custom application. Servers usually serve out web pages, but may also host web services, using a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) model. We will examine all these models and build code to implement them.

Several laboratory exercises and presentations are required, as well as a large final project. In this project you will create a web site that serves web pages and provides web services. Your clients will be both browsers and custom applications.

Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition, Williams and Lane, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00543-1 Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005, MacDonald and Szpuszta, Apress, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-496-7 TBD References available in Sci-Tech Library:

Bulletproof Web Design, Dan Cederholm, New Riders, 2006, ISBN 0-321-34693-9 The Zen of CSS, Shea and Holzschlag, New Riders, 2005, ISBN 0-321-30347-4 DOM Scripting, Jeremy Keith, Apress, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-533-5 Class Notes, available on www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/cse686 Webdev.xml

Programming Microsoft .Net, Jeff Prosise, Microsoft Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7356-1376-1

Students are expected to have a working knowledge of either C# or Java. By putting in extra time with the tutorial references you can make up for deficiencies in your knowledge of these languages.