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CSP 527: Client-Server Applications Development

H.M. Dietel, P.J. Dietel, and T.R. Nieto, Internet and World Wide Web, How to Program, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-030897-8

Through hands-on experience in developing a client-server database project and developing and managing a client-server Internet project, this course teaches advanced skills for effective design and implementation of client-server applications.
Students will examine the architectural and functionality decisions, technologies, configurations, languages, and techniques associated with client-server systems.
Active/passive client/server technologies, as well as public, enterprise-wide, and inter-enterprise approaches to decision and operation support are discussed and implemented.

•	Basic client/server concepts	2 hours
•	Network technologies, architectures, protocols, and NOS	2 hours
•	Remote procedure calls, remote data access, and message-passing middleware	2 hours
•	Client/server databases	2 hours
•	The worldwide Web and Web-based software application architectures	3 hours
•	Active and passive client/server technologies	3 hours
•	Public, enterprise-wide, and inter-enterprise decision and operations support	2 hours
•	Web page and web site design and web servers	2 hours
•	Architecture of a browser and the browser object model	2 hours
•	HTML, JavaScript , DHTML, Java, and Java applets	3 hours
•	Common Gateway Interfaces (CGI's), Active Server Pages (ASP), and Java Server Pages (JSP))	3 hours
•	Internet client/server database access and back-end database servers	2 hours
•	State maintenance, channels, and webcasting	2 hours
•	XML, DTD, XSL, data islands, XML and DB, XML for decision support	2 hours
•	Web services, search engines, and .NET	3 hours
•	Client/server application development with TCP/IP	2 hours
•	Thin-clients/servers; graphical user interfaces	2 hours
•	Security, public/private key cryptography, digital signatures, digital certificates, SSL, firewalls, and proxy servers	2 hours
•	Java client/server applications and legacy applications	2 hours
•	E-commerce and models for e-business and e-commerce	2 hours
Total		45 hours

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