ELEC5619 Object Oriented Application Frameworks

Rafael A. Calvo

Aims & Outcomes

This unit aims to introduce students to the main issues involved in producing large Internet systems by using and building application frameworks. Frameworks allow great reuse so developers do not have to design and implement applications from scratch, as students have done in EBUS3004 and EBUS4001. The unit lays down the basic concepts and hands on experience on the design and development of enterprise systems, emphasizing the development of systems using design patterns and application frameworks.
A project-based approach will introduce the problems often found when building such systems, and will require students to take control of their learning. A project-based approach will introduce the problems often found when building such systems, and will require students to take control of their learning. Several development Java frameworks will be used, including Spring, Hibernate, and others. Principles of design patterns will also be studied.
At the end of the unit you would have built an application for a framework with over 1M lines of code.

Session	Chapter	Title		Activity
1	1	Introduction: About this course Design Patterns
1	2	Application Frameworks		Setup
2-3	3	Spring		Ant, Junit, MVC
4-5	4 Appendix	Hibernate Maven		Port MVC app to Hibernate
6	5	Architecture Evaluations		Project Design Quiz (10%)
7	NA	Sakai Introduction: Introduction architecture, setup and configuration		Project
8	6	Sakai persistance and security data storage models entities security Sakai presentation layer: Sakai contexts, tools		Project
9	7	Service Oriented Architectures and Testing (invited Speaker: Jim Webber - tbc)		Project
		vacation
10	8	Tibco Frameworks. Dr. Karsten Kumpf		Project Prototype (10%)
11	8	WebML		Project
12	9	An eLearning software development process		Project Final applications (10%)
13	10	The Semantic Web Course Closure		Project presentations (10%) and Journals (10%)
		Appendix 1: A Bibliography management system
		Appendix 2: your own eLearning Project
		Appendix 3: Development Support tools: Maven, Subversion, Eclipse
		Open Book Exam

Resources:

• Programmers Cafe: A Sakai community effort to develop training materials is on its way.
• Sakai Developers Discussion Forums.
• Tool Development Exercise. a guided learning experience led by Mark Norton
• Sakai Documentation: Rich (Doxygen) documentation, Sakai architecture documents, Sakai Confluence, Sakai Models (slides by Mark Norton)
• Sakai Community

Readings:

• Introduction (Chapter 1) of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusble Object-Oriented Software. Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides
• Crossing Chasms: A pattern Language for Object-RDBMS Integration. K. Brown and B. Whitenack in Pattern Languages of Program Design by Vlissides. 1996.
• Ralph E. Johnson. "Frameworks = (components + patterns)". Communications of the ACM. 40 (10). pp 39-42. DOI
• Mohamed Fayad and Douglas C. Schmidt. "Object-oriented application frameworks". Communications of the ACM. 40 (10). pp 32-38. DOI
• Rod Johnson. "J2EE Development Frameworks". IEEE Computer. January 2005. pp 107-110.
• Mohamed Fayad, Douglas C. Schmidt., Ralph Johnson. Building Application Frameworks. John Wiley & Sons 1999. (Chapters 1 ad 2)
• M. Matera and A. Maurino and S. Ceri and P. Fraternali. "Model-driven design of collaborative web applications". Softw. Pract. Exper. 33 (8). pp 701-732. DOI
• Maven: a developer's notebook. Vincent Massol, Timothy M. O'Brien. O'Reilly 2005 - chapter 1