Engineering for Internet Applications

This subject is not offered in 2013.

120 hours

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Familiarity with software development for internet applications

Students cannot enrol in and gain credit for this subject and:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Topics covered include: Web software architectures; languages and standards for data and applications on the World Wide Web; protocols for data exchange, program invocation, self-description, and discovery that form a basis for Web Services. Technologies discussed include HTML, HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL. The development platform will be either Java Web Services platform or Microsoft's .NET. The use of these technologies for creating sample client-server and distributed applications will also be discussed.

On completion of the subject students should be able to:

• Become familiar with numerous technologies and design patterns for building internet applications
• Be able to critically analyse a given approach/pattern
• Work in groups to develop complex software

• Two projects due around weeks 7 and 12, expected to take approximately 36 hours (40%)
• Class participation (20%)
• One end-of-semester examination not exceeding 3 hours in duration (40%)
  
  

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• Undertake problem identificaiton, formulation, and solution
• Utilise a systems approach to complex problems and to design an operational performance
• Manage information and documentation
• Communicate effectively both with the engineering team and the community at large