Students need a sound grasp of the principles of object-oriented programming and of the issues involved in developing applications that execute across the World Wide Web for the enterprise. This understanding is underpinned by practical skills in the Java programming language. A new range of technologies has expanded the options for enterprise system architects. These technologies have been developed in response to demands to allow wider usage of systems and more varied interaction with them.

Support for B2B requires flexible systems with interfaces suitable for both enterprise and consumer use in a diverse range of applications. To cope with these demands, many legacy multi-tier frameworks need to be either augmented or replaced.

The tools and techniques emerging to provide for this variety of interaction include standards and products such as UDDI, CORBA, MTS (Microsoft Transaction Servers) and J2EE among others. These technologies provide a range of services including support for transactions, security, interoperability and persistence. They are often combined, and selecting which to use requires consideration of the skills available, the state of existing legacy systems and requirements for portability, security and flexibility.

Students completing this unit will have an understanding of these issues from the perspective of a Systems Architect. This task covers high-level aspects of enterprise system development, including project management, system design, development methodologies and tools as well as fundamental problems and technical issues underlying n-tier transaction and Web-based systems.

Students will gain these skills through the staged development of a medium-sized enterprise system. This development -- combined with written reviews justifying and evaluating their solution -- provides a solid grounding for both practical concepts and theory in addition to the technical skills acquired.

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

30/11/2017 - Unit disestablished at FEC 5/17 Item 7.3.

This is a core third level unit in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) major in Systems Development. This unit has some overlap with GCO3823/FIT3011, but it primarily concentrates on the programming aspects. Students who undertake a Systems Development major with a view to a job in Java programming need this unit in advanced Java programming.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• a commercially relevant programming language and its associated libraries;
• the object oriented programming paradigm and how to apply it to distributed programming;
• the technical issues underlying distributed enterprise computing, including concurrency and transactions, interoperability, scalability and manageability;
• the role of a System Architect in developing these systems, including managing system workload and capacity, understanding and modelling required business processes, and managing the development and testing of enterprise systems.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• appreciate the need to develop distributed software for the enterprise on the World Wide Web;
• recognise the issues involved in enterprise application development to be different from non-distributed standalone software development.

Developed the skills to:

• construct applications with a portable graphical user interface;
• design, develop and test a small to medium size distributed application written in Java for the enterprise.

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This unit focuses on the theory and application of object-oriented programming techniques as implemented in the Java programming language and its ability to build server-side and enterprise applications for the World Wide Web. It also looks at the Open Source technologies available for enterprise computing. Students gain practical experience with the issues and technologies related to the development of large scale enterprise systems including: Transactions and distributed transaction processing, interoperability and persistence, scalability and the choices facing enterprise system architects and developers.

On-campus

Examination (3 hours): 40%; In-semester assessment: 60%

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

FIT

FIT2024, CSE2201 or equivalent

Chris Ling