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

• Interpreted or executed by the server side applications, along with the Web server.

• The result is then sent back to the Web browser.

Ö  Server Side Technologies

• Active Server Pages

• Java Servlets

• Java Server Pages

• Distributed Components-Based Technology

  CORBA, DCOM, EJB, RMI, ...

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

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

• Evaluation criteria

  1. The language's API

  2. Tools

  3. Back-end connectivity

• Issues

1. Simplicity versus performance

2. Manageability

3. Scalability

4. Fault Tolerance

Ö  Database Connections

• JDBC: Java Database Connectivity

• ODBC: Open Database Connectivity

• OLE-DB

• ADO: ActiveX Data Objects