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November 30, 2004
Project II Passoff
Please schedule a time with Justin to pass off part II of the project.
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Power Laws and Network Effects
I mentioned an article by Peter Denning on power laws today in class. Here's the PDF. This is an interesting phenomenon to understand since there are many things in CS that follow power law curves.
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November 18, 2004
Online Ratings
Online course ratings are available starting Friday, Nov 19 and going through Saturday Dec 11th. Your feedback is very important to me, so I encourage you to complete an evaluation. Please don't do it right after you hand in the project. Give yourself a few days to decompress first. :-)
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Part III of the Project
Part III of the project has been update and is ready for you to work on.
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November 16, 2004
Part I of Project Returned
I have now graded all the write-ups for part I of the project that I reveived. I sent an email to the person in the group who sent it in. If your group did not receive an email from me, I never got your write-up (or misfiled it or something). If you beleive you submitted a write-up and have not received an email from me, then contact me via email ASAP.
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Web Services Examples
Today we'll go over an example refactoring of the student registration example into a Web services application and the ramifications of that.
We'll also discuss the use Axis with jBoss and go over an example showing how to deploy the Gateway bean as a SOAP service. The tarball is here.
Posted by windley at 01:57 AM | Comments (0)
Reminders
Remember:
- RAT 5 is due tomorrow evening at 11:55 pm
- The project is due 11:55pm on the 22nd of Nov. Don't be late or you won't finish part III of the project and it sworth 20% of your grade.
- We will not hold class on Tuesday Nov 23rd. Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by windley at 01:55 AM | Comments (0)
Project I Write-Ups
I'm grading the write-ups from part I of the project. If you haven't seen you're yet, you should see it today or tomorrow. I'm sorry for the delay. In order to give you time to review my comments and incorporate them into your write-up for part II of the project, I'm delaying the due date for Part II of the project until Monday Nov 22nd (over the weekend).
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November 11, 2004
RAT 5 Available
The password has been removed from RAT 5 and you should now be able to access it.
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Papers and Slides
You can find papers and copies of the slides from today's lecture on my blog.
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November 10, 2004
RAT 5
I have posted readiness assessment test (RAT) No. 5 on Blackboard. Some important things to note:
- Right now, its password protected. Justin is proofing it. As soon as he's done, I'll remove the password and let you at it.
- The RAT is due Wed, Nov 17 at 11:55pm. Since you've got a project due on the 19th, plan accordingly.
- Unlike previous RATs, this one will not tell you the correct answer. You'll have to do the group test without the benefit of having been told the correct answer. It will simply tell you whether or not your answer is correct.
Posted by windley at 01:50 PM | Comments (0)
Back in Business
The server has been fixed. Turns out they replaced the power supply and the motherboard. I don't think both were bad, but the components are so cheap anymore that they'd rather do that than guess and have to come back.
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November 02, 2004
Session Bean Design Evaluation
Since we didn't have enough time today, we'll do the session bean design exercise evaluation, voting, and discussion on Thursday. Come prepared with your session bean questions.
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Project Part II
Remember that part II of the project is due two weeks from Friday. If you don't have you're entity beans designed, built, and talking to the database, you're behind. You should have also deployed and tested the Gateway bean. Many groups deploy the Gateway bean completely separate from their project. That's fine and probably easiest. By now you should have a good handle on business actions that your session beans will have to undertake and how you will be dividing them up.
From here, get the scaffolding in place and then build on it. Begin by getting a session bean talking to your entity beans, even if its not doing anything but passing data back and forth from a Web page, through a client bean to the stateful session bean and then onto the entity bean.
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