ELEC5619 - Object Oriented Application Frameworks

Unit Coordinator: 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 other web development units. 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.

Local Resources

UoS Outline - Project - Project Timetable -Deliverables -- Lab and Tools

Timetable

Labs: Monday 4-7PM (Lab 424, Link Eng Bldg)
Lecture: Wednesday 11-12 (LT 450)

Week	Title	Slides	Activity
1	Introduction: About this course Design Patterns	PDF PDF	Project Conceive. Groups, Brainstorming, First draft proposal 27/7
1	Application Frameworks	PDF
2-3	Spring	PDF	Spring, Ant, Junit, MVC 3,10/8
4-5	Hibernate Maven Jorge Villalon: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) programming. GWT tutorial.	PDF PDF [update]	Port MVC app to Hibernate Hibernate tutorial 17,24/8
6	Architecture Evaluations	PDF [Reader]	Finish Hibernate activity Peer-review feedback (with copy to elec5619 at gmail due on Friday 4/9. 31/8
7	Sakai Introduction: Introduction architecture, setup and configuration Special Lecture on September 10, 11am (LT, Level 1 of SIT BLdg) Dr. Ian Boston - Univ Cambridge (Sakai 3.0)	PDF1 PDF2	Project 7/9
8	Mid Term Exam (30%) - in lecture Project Conceive. Final Proposal	N/A	Project 14/9
9	Sakai persistance and security data storage models entities security Application Frameworks	Sakai Programers Cafe Slides Sakai AppBuilder Reader	Project This week you should have a complete Spring web app
	vacation
10	WebML and CASE tools (Webratio)	[PDF]	Project 5/10 is public holiday
11	Scalability, Workload and capacity	[PDF]	Project 12/10
11
12	Test Driven Development (Dr. Nick Carroll - Thoughtworks)	PDF	Project Final applications (20%) With Sakai and group integration 19/10
13	Research topics Course Closure	[Slides] [Slides]	Project presentations (10%) and Journals (10%) 26/10
	Open Book Exam		Exam (30%)

Assessment:
Mid-term exam (30% - may include questions about your project), Project (40%), Final Exam (30%, may include questions about your project)

Recommended Book (for the Spring component)

Spring in Action by C. Walls and R Breidenbach. Manning Publications

Readings (all are on e-reserve):

Ralph E. Johnson. "Frameworks = (components + patterns)". Communications of the ACM. 40 (10). pp 39-42. (core - mid-term) DOI
Mohamed Fayad and Douglas C. Schmidt. "Object-oriented application frameworks". Communications of the ACM. 40 (10). pp 32-38. (core- mid-term) DOI
Rod Johnson. "J2EE Development Frameworks". IEEE Computer. January 2005. pp 107-110. (core- mid-term)
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusble Object-Oriented Software. Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides. Introduction (Chapter 1) (Library) (core - mid-term)
Maven: a developer's notebook. Vincent Massol, Timothy M. O'Brien. O'Reilly 2005 - chapter 1 (core- mid-term)
Chapter 5. Object Oriented Design and Patterns. Cay Horstmann. Wiley, 2002 (library) (core - mid-term).
Mohamed Fayad, Douglas C. Schmidt., Ralph Johnson. Building Application Frameworks. John Wiley & Sons 1999. (Chapters 1 ad 2) (Library) (core - final)
Essential Software Architectures. Ian Gorton. Springer 2006 - Chapter 1 (core - final)
Software Architecture in Practice. Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman, Addison-Wesley, 2003 - Chapter 11 "The ATAM".

Ajax in action. Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello with Darren James. [library]
Crossing Chasms: A pattern Language for Object-RDBMS Integration. K. Brown and B. Whitenack in Pattern Languages of Program Design by Vlissides. 1996. (Library) (informational)
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. (informational) DOI

For a better idea of what we expect by the end of the year check out the previous projects with Wink demos and source code)

Resources:

Sakai presentation layer: Java Server Faces (tutorial), RSF (tutorial)
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: Sakai architecture documents, Sakai Confluence, Sakai Models (slides by Mark Norton)
Sakai Community
Converting Spring MVC applications to Sakai (Andrew Thornton - Cambridge): sakai-tool-filter-dev.jar, Doc
Sun BluePrint core J2EE patterns, JT Pattern oriented Framework