Communication Software

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Communication Software

Degree: Ing. Telecomunicación
Year: 5
Term: 1
Group: 95-5 (Bilingüe)
Type: Optional
Credits: 4,5
Hours/Week: 3
Timetable: Tuesday 13:00-14:00, Thursday 11:00-13:00
Room: 4.0.E02 (lectures), 4.SD02 (labs, Thursday), 4.SD03 (lab, Tuesday)
Lecturers: Simon Pickin (lectures and labs) (en Español: Pablo Basanta Val, Norberto Fernández García)
Coordinator: Simon Pickin
Tutorial times: see the lecturer's personal web page
Authors, lecture materials: Simon Pickin (including translation of content authored by Natividad Martínez Madrid and Florina Almenárez Mendoza)
Authors, lab materials: Simon Pickin (including translation of content authored by Pedro Muñoz Merino and Norberto Fernández García)

OBJECTIVES

The World Wide Web, together with the underlying Internet, is arguably the most important technological development in the history of ICTs, and in the space of a few years has become the pre-eminent access platform for a wide variety of enterprise applications. The objective of this module is to introduce the student to the basic aspects of Web technologies and applications. The students should acquire knowledge of, and competence in, the following areas: Basic notions of software engineering and of analysis and design of communication software systems System integration concepts and some existing software environments which enable such integration, in particular, the Java enterprise edition Technologies for the development of distributed applications, in particular, web-based applications,

SYLLABUS

Part I. Introduction Software engineering UML2 by example Component and multi-tier architectures Integration of corporate applications: the J2EE platform Part II. The data tier in the Java EE platform Review of the relational model Basic SQL Connecting to databases with the JDBC API Part III. The presentation tier in the Java EE platform Servlets. Java ServerPages (JSP) JSP 1 JSP 2, the JSP standard tag library (JSTL) and the JSP 2 expression language (EL) Part IV. The business tier in the Java EE platform Object-relational mapping (ORM) and Java persistence solutions The Java Persistence API Enterprise JavaBeans version 3, in particular, EJB3 session beans EJB2 vs. EJB3 Part V. Web application technologies Dynamic languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy,... Client-tier technologies such as AJAX, Silverlight,... Extensions to, and evolutions of, the Java EE platform such as Jakarta Struts, Java Server Faces... ...

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS

The students will be required to carrry out supervised practical assignments in the laboratory, with the aim of improving their understanding of the concepts presented in the course and of their abilities to put these concepts to practical use. The programming language used is Java.

COURSE PLAN

The detailed course plan contains links to the slides that will be presented by the lecturer in the lectures and to the decriptions of the practical assignments to be carried out in the lab sessions. Students are strongly recommended to widen their knowledge of the subject and complete the information provided in the slides by consulting the bibliography and/or the links given below.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Basic:

The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson. 2nd ed., Addison Wesley, 2005
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, vol 1. Marty Hall and Larry Brown. 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2003
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, vol 2. Marty Hall, Larry Brown and Yaakov Chaikin. 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2007
Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies. Roland Barcia, Geoffrey Hambrick, Kyle Brown, Robert Peterson and Kulvir Singh Bhogal. IBM Press, 2008
Pro EJB3. Java Persistence API. Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol. Apress, 2006
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. Bill Burke and Richard Monson-Haefel. 5th ed., OReilly, 2006.

Complementary:

The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual. James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson and Grady Booch. 2nd ed., Addison Wesley 2005
UML Distilled : a Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language. Martin Fowler. 3rd ed., Addison Wesley, 2004
Using UML: Software Engineering with Objects and Components. Perdita Stevens. 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 2006
Software Engineering. Ian Sommerville. 9th ed., Addison Wesley, 2010.
Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming. Mordechai Ben-Ari. 2nd ed., Pearson, 2006.
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten Van Steen. Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Thinking in Java. Bruce Eckel. 4th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2006.
Effective Java. Josh Bloch. 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2008

INTERESTING LINKS AND ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Software Engineering

general resources
- Archives / collections of links:
Roger Pressman's SE resources pages
comp.software-eng comp.software-eng Newsgroup FAQ
USC/CSE's Software Architecture pages (including course entitled "Formal Methods in Software Architecture")
- Wikipedia:
software engineering notes
software development process notes
software architecture notes
- MIT opencourseware / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science:
Software Engineering for Web Applications
Laboratory in Software Engineering
- Philip Greenspan's book entitled "Software Engineering for Internet Applications"
- Some recent trends:
Don Wells' Extreme Programming site
Ron Jeffries' Extreme Programming site
Scott Ambler's agile modelling site
The OMG's MDA initiative
Scott Ambler's skeptical view of MDA
Paul Vixie's "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution", Chapter on Software Engineering
European Commission "Open Source Observatory"
FSF / UNESCO "Free Software Directory"

UML

courses / tutorials:
- OMG's introduction to UML
- 'IBM developer works' articles by Donald Bell:
UML basics: An introduction to the Unified Modeling Language
UML basics. Part II: The activity diagram
UML basics. Part III: The class diagram
UML's sequence diagram
- John Deacon's On-line guide to UML 2
- Scott Ambler's Introduction to UML 2.0 diagrams
- Alan Holub's UML 2.0 Quick Reference
- Borland's Practical UML tutorial
- Sparxsystems' UML 2.0 tutorial
- Smartdraw's Types of UML diagrams
general resources:
- currently-valid UML specification: UML 2.2
- OMG's UML resources page
- Wikipedia's UML notes
- UML Forum (probably a front for Telelogic but some useful info)
- David Harel and Bernhard Rumpe's article entitled "Meaningful modeling: what's the semantics of "semantics"?"
- Scott Ambler's modelling style guidelines
- Scott Ambler's UML Data Modelling Profile
- Geoffrey Sparks' article entitled "Database Modelling in UML"
- Conrad Bock's article entitled "UML 2 Composition Model"
- Bran Selic's article entitled "On the Semantic Foundations of Standard UML 2.0"
- jGuru's UML FAQ
- UML use-case diagram FAQ from Carnegie-Mellon CourseWeb
- DISC/UPV's UML Glossary (with translation into Spanish)
UML CASE tools:
- General information:
H. Eichelberger, K. Schmid, Y. Eldogan's Comprehensive Study on UML Tools
Objects by Design's guide to choosing a UML Modelling tool (outdated but perhaps still useful)
Objects by Design's list of UML CASE tools by price (outdated but perhaps still useful)
Mario Jeckle's comparison of UML CASE tools (outdated and only in German, I'm afraid!)
- Open source UML tools:
ArgoUML: at one time the most well-known and well-established open source UML tool but now dead in the water
Umbrello UML modeller: UML tool for KDE
StarUML
Papyrus 4 UML: Fully Eclipse 2 compliant tool
Topcased modelling tools: part of Topcased Open-Source Toolkit
- Some non open-source UML tools with a free version:
Objecteering: with EJB UML Profile
Modelio tool from Modeliosoft (really same folks as Objecteering)
- Some other well-known UML tools:
Poseidon: developed from ArgoUML
Apollo for Eclipse: latest offering from the makers of Poseidon
Rational Rose from IBM / Rational
Rational Rhapsody from IBM / Rational
Rational Tau from IBM / Rational
EclipseUML: Eclipse plug-in from Omondo
Together from Borland / TogetherSoft
Visual Paradigm for UML
Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems
- Research tools:
MagicUWE and ArgoUWE part of the UWE project

J2EE overview

general resources
- Sun's J2EE FAQ
- Summary of Martin Fowlers "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architectures"

Data Tier: SQL and JDBC

courses / tutorials
- FirstSQL's SQL tutorial
- w3schools' SQL tutorial
- Andrew Cummings's interactive SQL tutorial
- Chuo-Han Lee's small SQL tutorial
- Sun's JDBC tutorials:
getting started with the JDBC API
JDBC tutorial (a little outdated)
- jGuru's JDBC tutorials:
short course on the Fundamentals of JDBC (a little outdated)
short course on JDBC (outdated)
general resources
- Sun's JDBC pages:
JDBC technology pages
JDBC documentation pages
JDBC FAQ
- JDBC API documentation:
Java SE 1.4: java.sql, javax.sql
Java SE 5: java.sql, javax.sql

Java SE 6: java.sql, javax.sql

- Marty Hall's "Core Servlets" (see servlets section), Chapter on JDBC
- Scott Ambler's work on mapping objects to relational databases, in particular:
IBM developerWorks' article entitled "Mapping objects to relational databases"
extended version entitled Mapping objects to relational databases: O/R mapping in detail
- DevShed's MySQL articles
- Dbazine.com article entitled "Do IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle support the SQL:1999 standard?" by Peter Gulutzan
- Database systems and structures course at Simon Frazer University, Canada
- jGuru's JDBC FAQ
- JavaWorld JDBC section
- MySQL AB pages:
home page
MySQL documentation pages
MySQL 5.0 tutorial
MySQL 5.0 Language Reference Manual
Connecter/J 5.0 documentation (Connecter/J is an implementation of the JDBC API for the MySQL relational database server)
- PostgreSQL

Presentation tier: Servlets and JSP

courses / tutorials
- Sun's servlets & JSP tutorials:
J2EE 1.4 tutorial Chapter 11-16,
Java EE 5 tutorial, Chapters 3-9
- Marty Hall's servlet and JSP tutorials etc.:
Beginning and Intermediate-Level Servlet, JSP, and JDBC Tutorial
Advanced Servlet & JSP Tutorial
Presentation on HTML forms (see also Chapter 19 of "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, vol. 1" linked below)
- jGuru's servlet and JSP tutorials (a little outdated):
Fundamentals of Java servlets tutorial
JSP tutorial
- JSP tutorial (unknown author, unknown date, but rather outdated)
general resources
- Sun's servlet and JSP documentation:
servlet pages
JSP pages
JSP1 FAQ
JSTL 1.0 article
JSTL tag reference documentation: JSTL 1.1
- servlet API documentation (javax.servlet):
Servlet 2.4 (Java EE 1.4): javax.servlet, javax.servlet.http, javax.servlet.jsp
Servlet 2.5 (Java EE 5): javax.servlet, javax.servlet.http, javax.servlet.jsp
Servlet 3.0 (Java EE 6): javax.servlet, javax.servlet.http, javax.servlet.jsp
- jGuru's servlet and JSP documentation (a little outdated):
Servlet FAQ
JSP FAQ
- Marty Hall's on-line servlet and JSP books (in PDF format):
"Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages", 2nd edition (2003)
"More Servlets and JavaServer Pages", 1st edition (2001)
- "Murach's Java Servlets and JSP" 2nd edition, 2008, Andrea Steelman and Joel Murach, Chapter 5: How to develop JavaServer pages
- JavaWorld servlet and JSP documentation:
servlets section
JSP section
- "JavaServer Pages", Hans Bergsten, 2003, source code for the examples
- links to documents about HTML from the "Communication Software Laboratory" course
- W3C HTTP documentation:
W3C HTTP pages
W3C HTTP 1.1 specification
Tools
- Apache Tomcat Web server
- jGuru's Tomcat FAQ
- Marty Hall's Apache Tomcat tutorial

Business Tier: Enterprise Java Beans and the Java Persistence API

courses / tutorials
- Sun's EJB3 & JPA tutorial: Java EE 5 tutorial parts IV & V
- Sun's EJB2.1 tutorial: J2EE 1.4 tutorial chapters 23-28
- jGuru's short course on EJB Technology Fundamentals presented by Java Developer Connection (anticuated)
- Sun's Java Developer Connection EJB tutorial by Tom Daly and Uday Shetty (anticuated)
general resources
- Sun's EJB pages
- Sun's JPA pages
- jGuru's EJB2 FAQ
- The glassfish community's Glassfish EJB3 FAQ
- JBoss' Hibernate annotations reference guide
- "Pro EJB3. Java Persistence API", 2006, Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol, courtesy of Google books
- "Mastering Enterprise Java Beans" Ed Roman, Rima Patel Sriganesh and Gerald Brose; 2nd, 3rd (EJB 2.1) and 4th (EJB 3.0) editions available on-line in PDF
- "Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies", 2008, Roland Barcia, Geoffrey Hambrick, Kyle Brown, Robert Peterson and Kulvir Singh Bhogal, courtesy of Safari books
- Bill Burke and Richard Monson-Haefel's books
"Enterprise Java Beans 3.0", 5th edition, 2006, courtesy of Google books
"Enterprise Java Beans", 4th edition, 2004, courtesy of Safari books
- "EJB Design Patterns", 2002 Floyd Marinescu; whole book available on-line in PDF
- JavaWorld EJB section
- "EJB 3 In Action", 2007, Debu Panda, Reza Rahman and Derek Lane, Chapter 1: What's what in EJB3
Open-source tools
- Sun-sponsored Glassfish application server
- Apache Geronimo application server
- IBM WebSphere application server community edition
- JBoss application server

Java

courses / tutorials
- Sun's Java SE tutorials
- Sun's Java EE tutorial: J2EE 1.4, Java EE 5, Java EE 6
- jGuru's course on Java Language Essentials (outdated)
- Sun's Java Java 1.4.2 security architecture tutorial
Java API documentation
- Java SE: J2SE 1.4, Java SE 5, Java SE 6
- Java EE: J2EE 1.4, Java EE 5, Java EE 6
general resources
- Joshua Bloch's Effective Java, 2nd edition, 2008, courtesy of Google books
- Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java, 4th edition, 2006
- Sun's J2SE 1.4 FAQ
- Sun's J2EE 1.4 FAQ
- Sun's Java on-line training page

Java RMI

courses / tutorials
- jGuru's short course on the Fundamentals of RMI presented by Java Developer Connection (anticuated)
- Marty Hall's RMI Presentation
- Sun tutorial entitled"Getting started using RMI"
- Sun tutorial entitled "Remote object activation"
general resources
- jGuru's RMI FAQ
- Sun's RMI home page including RMI FAQ
- Sun's RMI in JSE5.0 pages:
includes the J2SE5.0 RMI Architecture and Functional Specification
(useful for more in-depth information and also available in PDF).
- Sun's RMI in JSE6 pages
includes the JSE6 RMI Architecture and Functional Specification
- Sun article about "Dynamnic code downloading using RMI"
- JavaWorld RMI section

Miscellaneous

past papers

2006:	February	September
2007:	February	September
2008:	January	September Figure 1
2009:	January Figure 1
2010:	January Figure 1

Simon Pickin,

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