SCSSE

School of Computer Science & Software Engineering

Faculty of Informatics

CSCI399 Server Technology

Subject Outline

Autumn Session 2007

Head of School –Professor Philip Ogunbona, Student Resource Centre, Tel: (02) 4221 3606

General Information

	Associate Professor Neil Gray
Telephone Number:	4221 3812
Email:	nabg@uow.edu.au
Location:	3.206

Associate Professor Gray’s Consultation Times During Session

Subject Organisation

Session:

Autumn Session, Wollongong

Credit Points

Contact hours per week:

3 hours lectures

Lecture Times & Location:

Lecture A

Tue

10:30

12:30

35.G20

Lecture B

Thu

09:30

10:30

20.5

Tutorial Day, Time and Location can be found at:

http://www.uow.edu.au/student/sols/timetables/index.html

The following timetable is indicative rather than prescriptive!

Week	Topic
Week 1	Overview of subject; review of CGI and HTTP protocols
Week 2	Apache
Week 3	Apache completed, introduction to Perl language
Week 4	Perl
Week 5	more Perl!
Week 6	DNS, start of PHP
Week 7	PHP
Week 8	start Servlet technology
Week 9	Servlets
Week 10	JSP
Week 11	JSP, processing XML with SAX & DOM parsers
Week 12	.NET
Week 13	miscellaneous topics

The need to cover first Perl and then PHP languages makes it impractical to have any assignments completed until almost mid-session.

Students should check the subject’s web site regularly as important information, including details of unavoidable changes in assessment requirements will be posted from time to time. Any information posted to the web site is deemed to have been notified to all students.

Content

This subject provides a broad overview of the computing technologies that underlie e-commerce. Technical topics will include: protocols, web server configuration (Apache), introduction to domain name services (DNS), the Perl language, PHP scripting, and the Java technologies: servlets, Java Server Pages, Java/XML technologies, and a limited introduction to Enterprise Java Beans and .NET. Additional topics may include web services, peer to peer computing models, and other emerging technologies.

Objectives

A student who successfully completes this subject should be able to:

(1) configure and run a web-server;

(2) demonstrate an understanding of DNS;

(3) use Perl as a scripting and reporting language, and apply Perl to the handling of CGI forms;

(4) implement a system using PHP scripting technology;

(5) deploy Java servlets and JSPs in a Java server (Tomcat).

(6) parse XML data and extract selected information.

Assessment 1 Report on Apache & basic CGI programming tasks	10%	Friday March 23rd
Assessment 1 Report on Perl programming task	10%	Thursday April 5th
Assessment 3 Report on PHP programming tasks	10%	Friday April 27^th
Assessment 4 Report on Servlets programming tasks	15%	Friday May 11
Assessment 5 Report on JSP & XML programming tasks	15%	Wednesday May 30
Final Exam	40%	Examination Period

Each of the assignments requires that you write a report detailing the development and testing of programs to accomplish specified tasks. These reports will contain code listings supplemented by commentaries and evidence for correct operation as detailed in the individual assignment. These reports are to be submitted as PDF documents.

Assignments are submitted electronically using the turnin program on the University's "banshee" computer system (the main server for CS undergraduate work). Details of use of turnin are included in the assignments. Marks are posted on the SOLS system; marker comments will normally be returned to students electronically through the University's email system.

The turnin system will be set to stop accepting assignment submissions at 11:59pm on the specified day. There is provision for late submissions - details are in the assignments. Late submissions are typically allowed for another three days at a penalty of one mark per day; there is no need to apply for permission to submit late. If you have a legitimate reason for an extension (e.g. sickness as registered on the University's SOLS system) and have notified the subject coordinator, the late penalty will not apply. Assignments cannot be accepted after the end of the late submission period.

Scaling

Final results in this subject may be scaled. The scaling method that will be used in this subject is as follows.

If E is the student exam mark out of 50, and A is the student assignment mark out of 50, the student final mark will be determined as follows:

if E >= 40% of the maximum exam mark: then student final mark is E + A;

if 35% <= E < 40% of the maximum exam mark: then student final mark is /min/{E+A, 47};

if E < 35% of the maximum exam mark: then student: final mark is /min/{E+A, 42}.

Supplementary Exams

While the School normally grants supplementary exams when the student does not sit the standard exam for an acceptable reason, each case will be assessed on its own merit and there is no guarantee a supplementary exam will be granted. If a supplementary exam is granted the date will be determined by the University via ARD. You will be notified via SOLS Mail the time and date of this supplementary exam. You must follow the instructions given in the email message.

Please note that if this is your last session and you are granted a supplementary exam, be aware that your results will not be processed in time to meet the graduation deadline.

Plagiarism

When you submit an assessment task, you are declaring the following

1. It is your own work and you did not collaborate with or copy from others.

2. You have read and understand your responsibilities under the University of Wollongong's policy on plagiarism.

3. You have not plagiarised from published work (including the internet). Where you have used the work from others, you have referenced it in the text and provided a reference list at the end ot the assignment.

4. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

5. Students are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without plagiarising or cheating, abiding by the University’s policies on Plagiarism as set out in the Calendar under University Policies, and in Faculty handbooks and subject guides. Plagiarism has led to the expulsion from the University.

This outline should be read in conjunction with the following documents:

Code of Practice - Teaching and Assessment

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/teaching_code.html

Key Dates

http://www.uow.edu.au/student/dates.html

Code of Practice - Students

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_students.html

Information Literacies Introduction Program

http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/workshops/ilip/

Acknowledgement Practice Plagiarism will not be tolerated

http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/plagiarism.html

Student Academic Grievance Policy