T. Andrew Yang 

(yang@grove.iup.edu)
Computer Science Department

HTTP://WWW.CO103.IUP.EDU/

1. Introduction to Web Development

1. World Wide Web as a new computing platform

2. The client-server model

3. The multi-tier model

4. Sample Web applications

5. Alternative Web development technologies

6. Client side development

7. Server side development

8. Summary

2. Curriculum Design

1. Curriculum Design Issues

2. A Sample Course

3. Lessons Learned

4. Specialty Track in Enterprise Computing

References

Designing and Teaching a Web Development Course

The tools, environments, languages, techniques, et al for developing Web based applications.

Ö  A beautiful landscape  - or rather a battle field?

• HTML, XML, DHTML, VRML, ASP, JSP, JDK 2.0, JDK Enterprise, JME

• Java Applets, Java Servlets, Java Scripts, JScripts, Forte Community, Forte Internet

• Java Beans, EJB, COM, DCOM, CORBA, RMI, JDBC, ODBC, ADO

• CodeFusion Studio, CodeFusion Enterprise Server, Application Servers

• Java Web Servers, Java Application Servers, WebObjects

• WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio, DB2, Oracle

• Visual Interdev, VisualAge for Java, VisualAge Micro Edition, DreamWeaver

• CGI, Perl, VB Scripts, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, IIS, Apache

• Netscape Enterprise Server, FrontPage, Oracle Internet Application Server

• Tomcat, JRUN, PHP, Wireless Internet, Blue Tooth, ...

    + The merging, integrating, evolutionary process of technologies

"Historically", most of the products were called 'middleware'.  → Hence the term "middleware war", "middleware muddle", ...

→ Jess Thompson,  "Avoiding a Middleware Muddle",  IEEE Software, November/December 1997.

The era of war groups ("tribes")  →  A few nations (or even empires)

 

    + A recent testing survey at http://www.eweek.com/a/pcwt0010311/2646051/

• Four leading dynamic scripting products were evaluated: cfm, jsp, asp, php

Ö  Classification comes to rescue!

• Client side techniques

• Server side techniques

• Connectivity to the further back end: e.g., legacy system running transaction processing

• Integrated development environments

CodeFusion Studio (Allaire), Visual Interdev (Microsoft), WebObjects (Apple), Dreamweaver (Macromedia), VisualAge for Java, WebSphere Studio (IBM), ...

Ö  Survey of technologies