Overview
This unit introduces you to the practical issues involved in the design and implementation of robust enterprise software applications, enabling business-to-business and business-to-customer operations. You will be learning data persistence and managing persistent objects, which will extend your knowledge of object-oriented programming. You will learn to assemble several open source tools and use well-known design patterns to build portable, highly available and maintainable software applications. You will be applying your knowledge to develop 3-tiered practical enterprise systems with a data persistence tier, business logic layer and a web-based presentation tier.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: COIT11134 and COIT11237 OR COIT11134 and COIT12167
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2018
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback response
Overall statisfaction
The overall student satisfaction fell in comparison to past terms. This can be largely due to less participation of students in the survey; which in turn did not truly represent the entire student population. 1) It is to recommend that in-campus teaching staff orient students about the importance of survery and encourage them to participate in the survey. 2) It is to also recommend that teaching staff emphasise students to partcipate regularly in all lecturer and tutorials to understand and grasp technologies used in the course. Unless students take ample self-initiatives and drives, without a facilitator course like this can be difficult to understand and digest. [3] In future, the CC and teaching staff should encourage students to participate in online forum and discussions to harness engagement.
Feedback from Student feedback response
Moodle navigation
[1] Besides the changes in assessment questions, all learning resources were similar to previous term. Whilst saying this, the course rating fell from 4.6 to 3.5. It is partly due to very limited number of students participated in the survey. [2] Likewise, in future, we need to look into ways and means to improve navigations using appropriate blocks, sections or hyperlinks in Moodle course site. [3] Subsequently, since navigation is a very broad term, specific questions in future surveys relating to navigation will help to rectify the problem.
Feedback from Student feedback response
Learning resources
The course website provided all resources: lecturer slides, tutorial activities and instructions, instructional videos, and other supplementary technical documents for students to learn and apply all technologies covered in the course. While observing lab sessions in Sydney campus, students fully used those resources. In many occassions, students told that the instructional resources including videos helped them a lot to learn and apply the tools and technologies. Recommendation: In future, additional supplementary learning resources such as links to external reading materials and videos in Moodle site will help students to build more confidence on the technologies used in the course.
- Explain the design rationale for n-tiered software architectures
- Discuss underlying principles and constructs used to achieve data persistence
- Use persistent objects and object-relational mapping in software application development
- Implement a 3-tiered enterprise software system integrating data persistence, business logic, and web tiers
- Analyse effectiveness of enterprise software systems for business operations and present the analysis results in an oral presentation
- Work collaboratively in a team contributing to productive software development.
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
- Database design (DBDS)
- Systems design (DESN)
- Testing (TEST)
- Systems integration (SINT)
- Release and deployment (RELM)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||
| 4 - Presentation - 10% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Presentation - 10% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Beginning Java EE 7
Edition: 1 (2013)
Authors: Antonio Goncalves
Apress
New York New York , NY , USA
ISBN: 978-1-4302-4626-8
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Apache Maven 3 or higher
- Derby database 10.6 or higher
- GlassFish application server 4.0 or higher
- Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.7 or higher
- NetBeans IDE 8 or higher
- Prescribed text: Beginning Java EE 7 (2013). Author and publisher information: Antonio Goncalves, Apress, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4302-4626-8
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.tom@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Enterprise Computing & Java EE
Chapter
1 and 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Object-Relational Mapping
Chapter
5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Managing Persistent Objects
Chapter
5 and 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Callbacks and Listeners
Chapter
6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Enterprise Java Beans
Chapter
7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Session Beans
Chapter
7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Callbacks, Timer Service and Authorization
Chapter
8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
JavaServer Faces
Chapter
10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Pages and Components
Chapter
10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Processing and Navigation
Chapter
11
Events and Submissions/Topic
Work on tutorial exercise(s). No submissions required.
Module/Topic
Transactions
Chapter
9
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Messaging
Chapter
13
Events and Submissions/Topic
Presentation Due: Week 12 Friday (5 Oct 2018) 11:55 pm AEST
Module/Topic
This course does not have examination.
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
This course does not have examination.
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Mahesh Kayastha
Unit Coordinator
Email: m.kayastha@cqu.edu.au
1 Written Assessment
This is an individual assessment. It focuses on underlying and constructs used to achieve data persistence.
Object Relational Mapping (ORM) is a programming technique used for data conversion. Specifically, the conversion occurs from various object-oriented languages into SQL-compatible relations. In this assessment you will write a technical report on ORM.
Week 5 Monday (6 Aug 2018) 11:55 pm AEST
You must submit this assessment within the due date. Failing to do so may attract late submission penalty as set out in the grading policy of the university.
Week 7 Friday (31 Aug 2018)
This assessment will assess your skills in conducting literature research (that also may include technology specific documents) and writing a technical document in the form of an academic report. In this assessment you are required to evaluate three (3) Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technologies highlighting their usefulness, strengths, and limitations.
The specification and marking criteria for this assessment will be provided in the unit website in Moodle.
- Explain the design rationale for n-tiered software architectures
- Discuss underlying principles and constructs used to achieve data persistence
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical and Written Assessment
This is an individual assessment.
This assessment focuses on using Java Persistence API (JPA), Object Relational Mapping (ORM) and Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) technologies in software application development. In this assessment you will design and deliver a software solution that fulfills the requirements (storing and retrieving data in Derby database server using JPA, ORM, and JPQL) specified in the business case.
The business case, assessment specification and marking criteria can be found in the unit website in Moodle.
Week 7 Friday (31 Aug 2018) 11:55 pm AEST
Week 9 Friday (14 Sept 2018)
In this assessment you are required to design, implement, test and document the persistence tier of a Java Enterprise Application using Derby database server and Apache Maven. This assignment will assess your competency in enterprise software paradigm and Java Persistence API (JPA) programming. Since this assignment will lay the foundation for Assessment-3, it is important that you spend ample time to understand and implement it.
The assessment specification and marking criteria can be found in the unit website in Moodle.
- Use persistent objects and object-relational mapping in software application development
- Work collaboratively in a team contributing to productive software development.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
3 Practical and Written Assessment
This is a group assessment. The group cannot exceed more than 2 team members.
This assessment focuses on implementing a 3-tiered software system integrating data persistence, business logic, and web component tiers. Likewise, it also focuses on working in a team environment and work collaboratively to build software.
In this assessment you are required to design, implement, test and document a fully functional 3-tier (presentation, business, and persistence tiers) web based enterprise application system. Since this is an extension of your Assessment-2, you will reuse the Entity Classes, Object Relational Mapping (ORM), and Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL) that you developed in Assessment-2 as Persistence Tier for this assessment. The purpose of this assessment is to assess your competency in enterprise software paradigm, Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) programming, and the inter-operations between these 3-tiers of an enterprise application.
The assessment specification and marking criteria can be found in the unit website in Moodle.
Week 11 Friday (28 Sept 2018) 11:55 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (19 Oct 2018)
This assessment will assess your knowledge and competence in designing, developing, testing, and documenting a 3-tier enterprise application that uses Java enterprise and associated technologies such as Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Java Persistence API (JPA), Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Derby Database Server, Glassfish Application Server, and Maven.
The assessment specification and marking criteria can be found in the unit website in Moodle.
- Use persistent objects and object-relational mapping in software application development
- Implement a 3-tiered enterprise software system integrating data persistence, business logic, and web tiers
- Analyse effectiveness of enterprise software systems for business operations and present the analysis results in an oral presentation
- Work collaboratively in a team contributing to productive software development.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
4 Presentation
This is an individual assessment and involves in-class oral presentation (for all in-campus students). The Unit Coordinator will set appropriate provisions for all distance or flexible students.
This assessment focuses on your ability to analyse the effectiveness of enterprise systems for business operations and present the analysis results in the oral presentation. Your presentation will contain two parts:
1. Review and analyse 2 peer-reviewed journal articles or conferences papers on the use of enterprise computing for organisational or business productivity. Your journals or articles must not be older that 5 years.
2. Relate how your works in Assessment-2 and Assessment-3 relate to that paradigm (your analyses in above 1)
Week 12 Friday (5 Oct 2018) 11:55 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (19 Oct 2018)
This is an individual assessment.
This assessment will evaluate your critical skills in reviewing and analyzing relevant academic literature and relate that with the software that you have developed in Assessment-3. Although you may have worked in a group in Assessment-3, you still need to prepare and give this oral presentation individually.
The assessment specification and marking criteria can be found in the unit website in Moodle.
- Analyse effectiveness of enterprise software systems for business operations and present the analysis results in an oral presentation
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Cross Cultural Competence
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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