Day/Time: M 5:45pm-7:00pm and 7:10-8:25pm
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite: Introduction to Java (MCS3603) or equivalent
Location: S204 (5:45-7:00pm), S214(7:10-8:25pm)
Instructor: ChanJin Chung, Ph.D.

• Office Room: S112
• Phone: (248) 204-3504
• Fax: (248) 204-3518 (this fax number is for the whole building and senders should be sure to place instructor's name on the fax)
• Dept. Secretary: (248) 204-3560
• Math/CS Drop Box: in front of S120 door. Please put instructor's name and time of submission on your work.
• Email: CHUNG@ltu.edu
• LTU webpage at http://www3.ltu.edu/~chung (syllabus, announcements, lecture notes, source codes, etc.)
• LTU BlackBoard
• Office Hours: check out http://www3.ltu.edu/~chung/s01sch.htm

• Book homepage: www.wrox.com/Books/Book_Details.asp?ISBN=1861004656 (source code, book errata)
• Java, Sun Micro Systems (JavaSoft)
• Java Tutorial by Sun | Java course by IBM
• Java Quest | The Sun Certified Java Programmer Examination
• Allaire JRun, JRun Studio, Kawa: http://allaire.com/
• MySQL: http://mysql.com
• ...

1. Advanced topics in Java Programming. (Encouraged to take Sun Certification exam)
2. Internet applications with the Java 2 platform
3. State-of-the-art Java technology for distributed applications
4. Real world (web server and/or device) projects in Java. Must use a real-web server!
5. Software Engineering for Web Applications

Tentative Class Topics (Total 30 lectures, 15 weeks)

1. Java Review [6 lectures] - Exception Handling, Event-Driven Programming, I/O, Threads and Concurrent Programming, and Java 2D, etc
2. Key technologies for distributed applications [6] - Network Programming, RMI, JDBC, JNDI, JavaMail, JMS, and XML
3. Web component development with Java [12] - Java Beans, Servlets, JSP, and JSP tag libraries
4. Modeling business logic with EJB [2]
5. Topics [1] - JAF, JTA, CORBA; 
6. Embedded Systems with Java [1] - TINI, TinyVM for RCX, Java Card, Java for D-TV, etc.

• Homework programming assignments - 10 points
• 1 final (everything covered in class) - 50 points
• Individual Project(s) and/or Seminar(s) - 60 points
• Group Project - 80 points

• By Mon. 3-19-01: (Individual) Project Demonstrations and/or Seminar
• Fri. 4-13-01: Last day to withdraw
• By Mon., 4-30-01, Project Demonstrations
• Mon., 5-7-01, Final (Time 5:30-7:20pm)

Class Policies

• Attendance is essential to doing well in the course. The final exam will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on material presented in the lectures.
• If you are unable to attend a meeting, it is your responsibility to obtain the material from other students, class webpage, blackboard, or instructor.
• Instructor is trying to give you an temporary web-server account. However, it is highly encouraged to set-up an permanent individual web-server account with JRun and RDBMS such as MySQL.
• It is highly recommended to purchase Java IDE tools such as JRun Studio and/or Kawa.

Lab Environment on Campus

• JBuilder 3: M215 and other labs
• CW51: JRun, JRun Studio and Kawa 5.0 will be installed
• CW52 for TINI and TinyVM for RCX
• ltu164.ltu.edu: instructor's personal web-server on his desk
• ...

Final Exam. Policies

• There will be no makeup final exam will be given
• Closed books, closed notes, and closed neighbors

Homework Policies

• You may use any Java IDE tools. However, you must provide a way for the instructor to test your program. Instructor has JDK 1.2 and JBuilder 3.
• Homework assignments must be done individually. 
• DO NOT COPY THE WORK OF OTHERS
• Must be submitted at the beginning of the class on the due date.
• Late submission penalty is 30%.
• No submission will be accepted beyond a week after the due date.

Individual Projects / Seminar Policies

• Assigned by the instructor
• Must be done individually. 
• DO NOT COPY THE WORK OF OTHERS
• Must maintain a webage and all the documents should be published on the page.
• Late demo/seminar penalty: 30% off

Group Project Policies

• Team Size: max. 3
• Must find a real-world project. The instructor will suggest some. The project must be approved by the instructor.
• Must be implemented on a permanent web-server.
• Must follow Software Engineering Paradigms and Documentations. All the documents should be published on the webserver.
• Grades will be based on completeness, consistency, reliability, robustness, reusability, user-friendliness, creativity, documentation, teamwork, scientific finding, educational value, new technologies used, etc.
• Also each team member will evaluate another members in the team.
• Late demo penalty: 30% off

Policy on Academic Misconduct