The Masters of Applied Information Technology have been reviewed and restructured jointly by all schools involved in teaching it. The changes have been designed to ensure smoother movement of students between the Graduate Diploma of Computing and the MAIT, and in light of changed immigration rules. This unit is to be offered in on-campus mode as well as off-campus mode as part of this revised program.

GCO4823 is an elective in the MAIT at Gippsland. This unit will be replaced with FIT4026 and GCO4823 will be disestablished.

Distributed database systems: clients, servers, application servers, database servers, clusters of servers. Distributed database architectures: single-tier, two-tier, multi-tier. Implementation issues: performance, security, transactions. Enterprise application server capabilities: hot deployment, clean shutdown, clustering, farming, load balancing, automatic fail-over. Enterprise application coding: DBMS access, distributed components, messaging services, authentication, authorization, encryption, transactions. Exterprise application software development tools. Access to the University's computer systems through an Internet service provider is compulsory for off-campus students.

Roman, Sriganesh and Brose, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, Third Edition, Wiley, 2004, ISBN 0764576828 (textbook). ?Note: Hope to use the Fourth Edition if it is published in time for 2007.?

Monson-Haefel, Burke and Labourey, Enterprise JavaBeans, Fourth Edition, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 059600530X.

Sierra and Bates, Head First EJB (Brain-Friendly Study Guides; Enterprise JavaBeans), O'Reilly, 2003, ISBN 0596005717.

Boone, Applied Enterprise JavaBeans Technology, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0130449156.

Wutka, Special Edition Using Java 2 Enterprise Edition, Que, 2001, ISBN 0789725037.

Marinescu, EJB Design Patterns, Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0471208310.

Alur, Malks and Crupi, Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0131422464.

On-campus and off-campus mode.

On campus students attend weekly lecture and computer laboratory classes, as well as having access to the same resources as DE students.

Students work through week-by-week study materials provided in print form and on the unit web site. These materials define weekly learning objectives, then guide into reading and exercises to achieve these objectives.

Students and staff in the unit communicate through newsgroups that permit discussion of the week-by-week theoretical and practical activities, as well as assignment and other work.

On-campus classes require a lecture theatre with data projection facilities for two hours per week.

On-campus tutorials require computer labs with suitable software, network connections and data projection facilities for two hours per week for each tutorial group.

Approximately 0.2 EAS (Effective Academic Staff) for one semester (marking support required).

JBoss AS 4.0 or later (http://www.jboss.org/products/jbossas)

JBoss-IDE 1.4.0 or later (http://www.jboss.org/products/jbosside)

J2SE 1.5.0 or later (http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp)

Required by: Start of week 1

Tester: Douglas Thomson

Licensing: Freely distributable

(Note: Some kind of virtual PC environment may be required depending on how JBoss is installed.)

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