Unit Synopsis
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
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026
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 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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Practical and Written Assessment | 50% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 30% |
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%).
Past Exams
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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.
Source: Unit Coordinator self reflection
Collect feedback from teaching team and students about the new added contents on the topics of 1. Web Security and 2. Microservices.
Make updates based on feedback and assessment results related to the topics.
The feedback was satisfactory. The web security and microservices reflected contemporary industry standards, which the unit practises and assesses.
Source: Unit Coordinator self reflection and teaching team feedback
Enhance system reliability based on Bean Validation and Error Handling, and enhance web application performance based on Ajax.
Introduce bean validation (system-built-in and customised) to web applications and RESTful web services and enhance Ajax for web applications.
Those components have been introduced to all three layers: presentation layer, business layer and persistence layer of an enterprise system, and they have been assessed by the unit assessments.
Source: Unit Coordinator self reflection
The latest Jakarta EE has deprecated Jakarta Faces Managed Beans and replaced them with CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) beans.
Replace Jakarta Faces Managed Beans with CDI Beans and update relevant contents for Weeks 8 to 10.
In Progress
Source: Unit Coordinator self reflection and students feedback
Additional Zoom sessions to support students facing programming challenges.
Provide some drop-in sessions for Jakarta EE programming and components integration.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- 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).
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| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | • | |||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | ||
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| 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 | • | |||||
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| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
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