Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Modelare si simulare - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MID1013	Java Technologies and Platforms for Distributed Applications	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
3	2+0+2	speciality	optional	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
BOIAN Florian Mircea	Ph.D.	Prof.	Computer Systems	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
Knowledge and use the actual Java platforms and technologies. To offer and / or develop the tools and frameworks, platform independents, for Java middleware use. To open new research directions in the topic.	

IV. Course contents
&#8226;	Lecture 1 : New aspects in Java language [5 cap 1]
&#8226;	Lecture 2: Applet with JavaScript communication [8]
&#8226;	Lecture 3: Proxies [6 cap10], immutable objects [7 cap 3], reflection [7 cap 9].
&#8226;	Lecture 4: Servlets and servlet containers [5 cap 7].
&#8226;	Lecture 5: Servlet filters [9]
&#8226;	Lecture 6: Special aspects about servlets: initialization, cookies, session object, forwards [1 cap 7].
&#8226;	Lecture 7: Applet with servlet communications [7 cap 4]
&#8226;	Lecture 8: Java server pages (JSP): introduction, default objects [5 cap 8].
&#8226;	Lecture 9: JSP beans, custom tags design [2 cap 10].
&#8226;	Lecture 10: Java Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL) [2 cap 14].
&#8226;	Lecture 11: The Struts framework [6 cap 4].
&#8226;	Lecture 12: The JSF framework [6 cap 13].
&#8226;	Lecture 13: The Spring framework [9].
&#8226;	Lecture 14: JDBC [5 cap 3] vs. hibernate [2]	

V. Bibliography
1.	AYERS D. et.al. Professional Java Server Programming Wrox Press, 1999
2.	BODOF S. et.al The j2ee Tutorial. Sun Microsystems, 2001. 
3.	BOIAN F.M. Programare distribuită în Internet; metode şi aplicaţii. Ed. Albastră, grupul Microinformatica, Cluj, 1997
4.	BOIAN F.M. FERDEAN C.M., BOIAN R.F., DRAGOS R.C. Programare concurentă pe platforme Unix, Windows, Java. Ed. Albastră, grupul Microinformatica, Cluj, 2002
5.	BOIAN F.M., BOIAN R.F. Tehnologii fundamentale Java pentru aplicaţii Web. Ed. Albastră, grupul Microinformatica, Cluj, 2005
6.	GOODWILL J. HIGHTOWER R. Professional Jakarta Struts. Wiley, 2004.
7.	SIMMONS R. Hardcore Java. O@ Reilly, 2004.
8.	*** http://java.sun.com.
9.	*** http://www.java.sun.com/j2ee/docs.html

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
The activity ends with a written final exam. During the semester, the students will have to prepare a theoretical report and a software project in the topic. Optionally, the students can design an illustrative example for a course concept. 
Final grade consists from:
&#8226;	Final writtenexam:                                      30%
&#8226;	The quality of the project                           30%
&#8226;	Technical report :                                       25% 
&#8226;	A representativ example presentation :      15%

Details for the course conditions and the student requests can be consult from:
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~florin/PJ

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Prof. BOIAN Florian Mircea, Ph.D.