CS4273 Distributed System Technologies and Programming

Aims and Objectives

• Introduce advanced Internet technologies
• Investigate design and implementation issues of Web-based systems
• Teach Web-based programming skills

Outlines

• WWW, HTTP protocol, HTML and XML
• Java Applets
• Multi-thread programming
• Sockets communication
• CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programming
• Web Searching techniques and programming
• Java Servlet programming
• Basic Web-Security programming
• JSP (Java ServerPage) programming
• Java-DataBase Connections (JDBC)
• Java RMI (remote method invocation)

Teaching Asistant

Mr. Bo Zhang (bo.zhang@student.cityu.edu.hk, tel: 3442-4847)

Text Books and E-resources

• List of Useful UNIX Shell Commands
• Deitel, et al., JAVA How to Program (6/E), Prentice Hall, 2005
• Java Tutorial Materials
• Java GUI Event Handling API

Teaching Schedule

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Tutorial Notes
1	Introduction to WWW	WWW	WWW
2	Introduction to Java and GUI programming	Java & GUI	GUI
3	Java Applets and animations	Applet	Applet
4	Java threads and multithread programming	MultiThreading	threading
5	Java Socket Programming	SocketProgramming	Socket
6	Web Searching	WebSearching	WebSearching
7	Java Networking	Networking	Networking
8	Java DataBase Connection (JDBC)	JDBC	JDBC
9	Java Servlet	Servlets	Servlets
10	Security Programming	Security	Security
11	JavaServer Pages (JSP)	JSP	JSP
12	Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation)	RMI	RMI
13	Review	Review

Assignments

• Assignment 1, ChessBoardImages, and Demo Sheet
• Assignment 2 and Demo Sheet