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October 29, 2004
CS601R Course on Middleware
I'll be teaching a graduate course on middleware (CS601R) this next semester. For more information about the class, see the about page on the class wiki.
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October 26, 2004
Thursday's Field Trip
Barry Dixon is expecting you about 9:50 at the ViaWest data center. You're responsibile for getting yourself there and back. Feel free to carpool or whatever. The data center is located in the Canopy building at 333 S 520 W, Lindon, Utah 84042. Take exit 276 from I-15 and its just east of the freeway north of Home Depot. Here's a map. The tour will take about an hour.
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Object Relational Mapping Links
Scott asked me to share these links with you.
- www.hibernate.org – One of the better, if not the best, free Java ORM tool.
- http://www.hibernate.org/98.html -- Information about Middlegen (the ‘code generation’ tool we use to create XML mapping files from a database schema)
- http://www.hibernate.org/102.html -- Information on hbm2java and hbm2ddl (tools for creating Java objects and/or database objects from the mapping files (generated by Middlegen).
I'm having a good time in Denver. Read my blog to find out about the talks I'm listenting to at DIDW.
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October 21, 2004
Session Beans
We'll start in on session beans today. We'll be going over my example on connecting session beans and JSPs. Here's the code. We'll also do a group exercise to familiarize you with session beans.
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October 19, 2004
Readiness Assessment Test No. 4
Readiness Assessment Test (RAT) No. 4 is now available on Blackboard. You have until Oct 28 at 11:55pm to complete the RAT.
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Entity Bean Designs
The group designs from today's exercise are posted outside my office if you'd like to look at them again.
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Grad School
This Thursday's colloquium will be Dr. Dan Ventura talking about grad school. Whether you think you want to go or not, this colloquium will give you some valuable insight into an important decision you will be making in the next little while.
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Website Competition
Check out the Web site competition that the eBusiness center is hosting. Comptuer Science students have done well in the past in eBusiness center competitions. The Web site competition has been changed this year to focus on functionality and more complex sites which will give CS students a leg up over the designers.
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October 15, 2004
Machine Problems and Project Due Date
As you know, you have a project due tonight. UML5 continues to be a bother. I'm not going to penalize you for machine troubles, so don't get all uptight if the machine goes down and you can't finish. We'll work something out.
I apologize for the problems. I'm going to get with Frank and see if we can't come up with a better solution for Project 2.
As far as I know, most of the machine are working OK with only occasional hitches, but UML5 seems to be unstable. If your experience contradicts this, please let me know so I can solve the right problem.
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Readiness Assessment Test (RAT) No. 4
The fourth Readiness Assessment Test (RAT) (formerly called quizzes) is about 1/4th finished. Sorry. I suspect that not many of you were going to work on it tonight anyway. I've a feeling that you've got something else to do. I've turned in the chapters for my book, so I will be working on the RAT next. Watch this space for further announcements.
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October 14, 2004
Turning in Part I
There will be two things you have to do to turn in your work on Part I of the project.
- Send me a note with a link to your write-up. You may submit it in PDF, Word, plain ascii text, or HTML.
- Schedule a time with Justin for him to review your project with you and your partner. Be prepared to show him the functionality as well as the code.
The write-up is 60% of the score you receive for this part and the pass-off is 40%.
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Project Part II
Its time to start thinking about Part II of the project.
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October 12, 2004
Entity Beans and CMP
We're going to talk about Entity Beans today and try to get up to speed.
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October 07, 2004
Operation Karras Example
Today we'll talk about an example application called Operation Karras and do an exercise developing an entity bean.
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October 05, 2004
Lab Tools Reminder
You are not expected to use Turbine in the project. In fact, it won't work with jBoss, so you'd have to scuttle jBoss and just use Tomcat. Normally, in an application like this, you would use some sort of connection pooling software, but that's not necessary. You can write your own if you like, or just skip it and open a connection in the bean each time.
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Quiz No. 3 Available
The quiz for reading module 3 is on Blackboard (finally!). The due date is next Monday, Oct 11 at 11:55pm.
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Project Review
Please make an appointment with Justin to have him review your progress on your project. Both team members should be there. He'll be looking at your design, progress, and what's left to do.
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EJB 1.1
As you read Monson-Haefel, you can safely ignore all of the information regarding the EJB 1.1 specification and operation. We won't be using that at all.
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October 04, 2004
Quiz
I'll be adjusting the reading module due date. The quiz is in process, as they say. Stand by.
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