Overview
This unit introduces you to the components, architectures and industrial standards involved in the design and implementation of enterprise software applications. The focus will be on applications employing 3 tiers including a presentation tier, an application tier and a data persistence tier. You will work in a small team for the design and development of a 3-tier enterprise application project. In terms of technology, both traditional desktop applications and web-based applications will be covered and different technology platforms will be compared and contrasted. Emerging technologies and current research issues will be discussed.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: COIT20256 Data Structures and Algorithms, COIT20247 Database Design and Development Co-requisites: COIT20257 Distributed Systems: Principles and Development, COIT20258 Software Engineering
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 1 - 2024
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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.
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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
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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 Unit Coordinator self reflection and teaching team feedback
Upgrade Jakarta EE development and runtime environments
When JDK 21 LTS is released in Sep 2023, GlassFish can be updated to version 7 to support Jakarta EE 10
Feedback from Unit Coordinator self reflection and teaching team feedback
Not enough depth in data exchange between systems so difficult for students to apply
Strengthen industry adopted data exchange standards in XML and JSON by introducing more on JAXP, JAXB, JSON-P, JSON-B and JAX-RS.
- Compare and contrast the major enterprise software architectures
- Analyse and evaluate the design options available for a given scenario depicting a complex enterprise problem
- Design and implement complex 3-tier applications
- Work collaboratively and communicate effectively as part of a productive team
- Assess the potential impact of emerging enterprise computing technologies to various stakeholders
- Critically evaluate key research areas in enterprise computing.
- Systems Design (DESN)
- Software Design (SWDN)
- Programming/Software Development (PROG)
- Data modelling and design (DTAN)
- Database design (DBDS)
- User experience design (HCEV)
- Testing (TEST)
- Release and deployment (RELM)
- Application support (ASUP).
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
| 4 - Research | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||||
| 8 - 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 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Beginning Java EE 7
(2013)
Authors: Antonio Goncalves
Apress
New York New York , NY , USA
ISBN: 978-1-4302-4626-8
Binding: Other
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- MySQL Server, MySQL Workbench, and MySQL Connector/J 8.0.29 or a higher version
- GlassFish Application Server 7.0.9
- JDK 21
- NetBeans IDE 20 or a higher version
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
w.li@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Enterprise Computing & Jakarta EE
Chapter
Chapter 1 & 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Object-Relational Mapping
Chapter
Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Managing Persistent Objects
Chapter
Chapter 5 & 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Callbacks and Listeners
Chapter
Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Enterprise Beans
Chapter
Chapter 7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Vacation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Session Beans
Chapter
Chapter 7 & 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Callbacks, Timer Service and Authorization
Chapter
Chapter 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Jakarta Faces
Chapter
Chapter 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Pages and Components
Chapter
Chapter 10
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Processing, Navigation and Web Security
Chapter
Chapter 11
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Restful Web Service
Chapter
Chapter 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Microservices
Chapter
Unit developed materials
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Assignment 3 Submission
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
This is an advanced unit in MIT Course, covering theory and practice of enterprise computing architecture. Students’ commitment is very important for your success of this unit. Please attend each lecture and tutorial to build your knowledge and skills for enterprise software development.
The unit coordinator contact information for this term:
DR Wei Li
School of Engineering & Technology
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton QLD 4702, Australia
Phone: + 61 7 4930 9686
Email: w.li@cqu.edu.au
1 Written Assessment
Your task for this assignment is to write a research report to critically review major enterprise computing architecture: Jakarta EE, Spring Framework, and .NET. The purpose of this assignment is to assess your review competence on the basis of critiquing ability, clarification of technical issues and formal academic report writing.
The detailed assignment specification and marking criteria can be found under the Assessment block of the unit website.
Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024) 11:59 pm AEST
Assignment 1 Due
Week 6 Friday (19 Apr 2024)
Assignment 1 results release two weeks after submission
The students are assessed mainly against formatting, technical contents and citation quality of the report.
The detailed assessment description and marking criteria can be found under the Assessment block of the unit website.
- Compare and contrast the major enterprise software architectures
- Assess the potential impact of emerging enterprise computing technologies to various stakeholders
- Critically evaluate key research areas in enterprise computing.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
2 Practical and Written Assessment
You will be tasked with a team-based software development project. You will be part of a small team to design, implement, test and document a secured three-tier enterprise application system. The purpose of this assignment is to assess your competence in enterprise computing paradigms, including Jakarta Faces (JSF), Enterprise Jakarta Beans (EJB), Jakarta Persistence API (JPA), and Jakarta Web Security programming, and the interoperations between layers of an enterprise application. Your ability to work collaboratively in a small team will also be assessed by this assignment.
The assignment specification and marking criteria can be accessed on the unit Moodle site.
Week 11 Friday (24 May 2024) 11:59 pm AEST
Assignment 2 Due
Review/Exam Week Friday (7 June 2024)
Assignment 2 results release two weeks after submission
The students are assessed mainly against their documentation (design and test) quality, software implementation correctness and teamwork report.
The detailed assessment description and marking criteria can be found under the Assessment block of the unit website.
- Analyse and evaluate the design options available for a given scenario depicting a complex enterprise problem
- Design and implement complex 3-tier applications
- Work collaboratively and communicate effectively as part of a productive team
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Written Assessment
Your task for this assignment is to address some key issues in the area of enterprise computing architecture. The purpose of this assignment is to assess your understanding to the key issues and competence to apply the key principles to enterprise computing.
The detailed assignment specification and marking criteria can be found under the Assessment block of the unit website.
Review/Exam Week Friday (7 June 2024) 11:59 pm AEST
Assignment 3 Due
The marked assignment will be returned on the day of Certification of Grades
The students are assessed mainly against their understanding to the given key issues and competence to apply the key principles.
The detailed assessment description and marking criteria can be found under the Assessment block of the unit website.
- Compare and contrast the major enterprise software architectures
- Analyse and evaluate the design options available for a given scenario depicting a complex enterprise problem
- Assess the potential impact of emerging enterprise computing technologies to various stakeholders
- Critically evaluate key research areas in enterprise computing.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
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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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