The MBC information booklet - RMIT University

Chapter 12: Vocational Electives
12.1.2 COSC2401—
Client Server
Architectures
12.1.3 COSC2106—
Document
Markup
Languages
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Aim
This course aims to cover the concepts and Java skills necessary to build client server
applications. Most of the concepts will be presented using simple projects.
Initially the concepts of sockets, threads and synchronization will be introduced allowing
students to build multithreaded applications such as simple multiplayer games and a
multithreaded web server, etc. Following that, students will build a simple chat system
using Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
In the second part of the course students will learn the concepts and skills necessary to
build simple web based applications. Students will learn to query and update relational
databases using JDBC. Student will also learn the mechanism for encoding data
independent of any programming language using XML. Students will be introduced to
the Java classes necessary to build secure applications incorporating encryption
decryption and digital signatures.
Objectives
On successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:
• Design and write multithreaded applications;
• Design and code simple distributed applications using Sockets and RMI;
• Write programs that can access relational databases;
• Read and write XML documents using Java; and
• Incorporate mechanisms to ensure data integrity, confidentiality and authentication
Prerequisites
• COSC2207 Programming Principles 1B
• ISYS1055 Introduction to Databases
Syllabus
• Multithreading (3 weeks): Learning to use threads in Java, Race conditions and
deadlocks, Synchronization.
• Client Server Programming (2 weeks): Building simple client server applications
using Sockets.
• Building 3-Tier applications with RMI (2 weeks).
• Java Database Manipulation (1 week): Connecting to database with JDBC, Writing
programs to insert and update.
• XML Manipulation (2 weeks): Concept of XML parser, Using DOM and SAX,
Designing Document Type Definitions.
• Security (2 weeks): Key management with Java, Message digests and message
authentication with Java, Java authentication and authorization service.
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the principles, use, and application of document markup
languages, especially for use on the World Wide Web. Topics in this course include
document markup languages (especially XML), document description languages (such
as Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schemas), document transformation
languages (specifically eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)),
stylesheets (such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and eXtensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL)), XML namespaces, XML APIs (such as the Simple API for XML (SAX)
and the Document Object Model (DOM)), document query languages (specifically
XQuery) and XML databases.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
• COSC1297 Web Page Construction or equivalent
• Ability to write programs in PHP or Java, equivalent to COSC1309 Programming
Web Applications OR COSC1295 Java for Programmers
For more information on the course, go to www.rmit.edu.au/courses2006/029566.