Spring 2003
| Date posted |
Title |
Body |
| 2003/05/26 |
XSLT, XQUERY |
The slides from David's presentation on XSLT and
XQUERY are available now in PDF and
MS PowerPoint formats. See
also Lectures.
FH
|
| 2003/04/24 |
DTD, XML Schema |
The slides from today's presentation by Lars Bo on DTD and
XML Schema are available now. See Lectures.
FH
|
| 2003/03/31 |
Combinatory parsing, SAX |
The slides from last Thursday's presentation on parser combinators
and a link to the SAX project are now available. See Lectures.
FH
|
| 2003/03/21 |
XPath Explorer |
Hjemmesiden for XPath Explorer (XPE) er:
http://www.purpletech.com/xpe/index.jsp.
Den startes med "java -jar xpe.jar". Den er baseret på Jaxen
implementationen af XPath: http://jaxen.sourceforge.net/.
Hvis min præsentation skulle være blevet væk findes den på:
http://www.ambus.dk/xpathtalk/.
TSA
|
| 2003/03/21 |
Slides on XPATH available |
The slides from Thomas's presentation on XPATH
yesterday are available now in
PDF format.
FH
|
| 2003/03/06 |
Slides on software design available |
The slides on software design
from today's meeting are available now in
PDF format and
MS PowerPoint format.
FH
|
| 2003/03/03 |
Wiki area |
I have begun a Wiki area on the DIKU Wiki pages on Plan-X
here. Stop by and add your take on the project, ask questions, or
whatever. To add anything to the pages you need to register
first at the TWiki
registration page. HN |
| 2003/03/03 |
Slides on SCM available |
The slides on software configuration management from thursday's meeting are available now in
PDF format.
I have also composed a short list of commands for basic CVS usage
here.
HN
|
| 2003/02/20 |
Slides on testing available |
The slides on testing from today's meeting are available now in
PDF format and
MS PowerPoint format.
FH
|
| 2003/02/14 |
Email addresses needed |
I need your email addresses! Could you please forward information
(name and email address) if not already listed
in the "people" section below?
HN
|
| 2003/02/14 |
Lists updated |
I have updated the lists of people and lectures. Please check
that I got the details concerning you correct, and send me
mail if I didn't. Be particularly sure to check that I signed
you up for the right presentation and with the right material
(the specifications are changing all the time, and I may have
referred to an old version). In general send me mail if you have
comments, something isn't working and so forth.
HN
|
- Title:
- Project seminar: software technology for distributed and mobile applications
- Teachers:
- Fritz Henglein
and Henning Niss
- Course ID:
- 235
- Time and place:
- Lectures and discussions: Thursdays, 13:15-15:00, room N037
- Format:
- The seminar consists of weekly 2-hour meetings throughout the
semester. Each meeting features 1-2 student presentations.
Furthermore, we will take up discussions of topics that arise
in ongoing software projects by the participants and are of
broad(er) significance.
- Credits:
- 3 ECTS points, pass/fail. Stuff about projects
- Goals:
- At the end of the seminar you should be able to:
- apply fundamental software development techniques centered
around the software construction phase (design, coding and
testing) and evaluate their applicablity, role and effect in
a software construction project;
- understand problems inherent in distributed and mobile software
systems, know techniques for solving them, and convert that
knowledge to running software;
- understand and implement select XML technologies, and critically
evaluate them for suitability in software projects.
- Content:
-
- We will address, on a hands-on basis, general problems that must
be dealt with on any managed software development project:
- software project management
- software design
- techniques and tools for software testing
- software configuration management
- We will discuss technical problems that are central to the
construction of distributed and mobile software systems
from a software construction point of view:
- distributed persistent storage
- routing
- mobile code
- distributed memory management
- Since XML (eXtended Markup Language) plays a central role
in open distributed and mobile systems as the eminent
universal format for representing, storing and exchanging
data on the internet, we shall systematically study a
selection of XML technologies:
- Basic XML concepts: XML, XML Namespaces, XPATH
- XML application programmer interfaces and data models: SAX, DOM, DVM
- XML document type specifications: DTD, XML Schema
- XML document processing languages: XSLT, XQUERY
- XML-based messaging and service description: SOAP, XML-RPC, WSDL, UDDI
- Semantic Web
NB: The above list is subject to change!
- Target group:
- The seminar is directed at students engaging in (in Spring
2003) or planning on (for Fall 2003) a Master's thesis project,
a term project or a bachelor's project with a substantial
software construction component.
If you are looking for a bachelor's project, Master's level
term project (2.delsprojekt) or Master's thesis project
(speciale) to go with this seminar in Spring 2003, see
http://www.plan-x.org for project ideas and proposals that are
part of the Plan-X Project. The goal of Plan-X is to develop a
software platform (middleware) and programming model for
developing highly distributed and mobile applications based on
value-oriented programming.
- Course material:
- Will be posted on the course home page.
- Prerequisites::
-
- Bachelor of Science students:
- Must have finished the first 5 semesters of the computer
science bachelor's curriculum at DIKU (full-time computer
science; computer science with a minor; or other subject
with computer science as a minor) or equivalent, and must
be concurrently (Spring 2003) working on bachelor's project
with a substantial software construction component
(preferably related to distribution, mobility or XML, but
this is not required). Prior knowledge of particular
'technologies', such as XML, is NOT required.
- Master of Science students:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science (full-time or with
minor); or a bachelor's degree in another discipline with a
completed minor in computer science; or introductions to
programming and programming languages, algorithms and data
structures, operating systems and networks, concurrency at
the level of a bachelor program in computer science. Good
knowledge of distribution and mobility is highly
recommended, but not mandatory. Good knowledge of general
programming language syntax and semantics, including types,
is recommended, but not mandatory. Prior knowledge of
particular 'technologies', such as XML, is NOT
required.
- Home page:
-
http://www.plan-x.org/.
Teachers
Students
The following is the plan of presentations for the semester.
Presentations
| No. |
Date |
Teacher |
Contents |
Main literature |
Slides |
| 1. | Feb. 6 |
HN |
Introduction / Software engineering |
|
|
| 2. |
Feb. 13 |
HN |
Software project management |
[SPSG] |
|
| 3. |
Feb. 20 |
FH |
Testing |
[Myers]
([Kit, GJM]) |
[PowerPoint,
PDF] |
| 4. |
Feb. 27 |
HN |
Configuration management |
[Tic84, Gru86,
Ber90,
Ced2003] |
[PDF] |
| 5. |
Mar. 6 |
FH |
Software design |
[GoF]
([UML]) |
[PowerPoint,
PDF] |
| 6. |
Mar. 13 |
ABMJ |
XML / XML Infoset / XML Namespaces |
[XML,InfoSet,Nam] |
|
| 7. |
Mar. 20 |
TSA |
XPath |
[XPath] |
[PDF] |
| 8. |
Mar. 27 |
FH |
SAX / Parser combinators |
[SAX |
Functional parsing] |
[PowerPoint,
PDF] |
| 9. |
Apr. 3 |
JUJ |
DOM / DVM |
|
[PS,
PDF] |
| 10. |
Apr. 10 |
LBT |
DTD / XML Schema |
|
[PDF] |
| |
Apr. 17 |
|
(Easter holiday) |
|
|
| 11. |
Apr. 24 |
HS |
XSLT |
[XSLT] |
|
| 12. |
May 1 |
MPH |
XQuery |
[XQuery]
([XQuerySem,
XQueryData])
|
|
| 13. |
May 8 |
RK |
SOAP |
[SOAP1,
SOAP2]
([SOAP0]) |
|
| 14. |
May 15 |
AA |
WSDL |
[WSDL] |
|
| 15. |
May 22 |
All |
Evaluation |
|
|
Exercises associated with a particular presentation will be posted shortly
after the presentation. (Whoever is giving the presentation must send the
exercises in plain text or HTML format to
Henning Niss for subsequent posting here.
Please do this before you hold your presentation or immediately after.)
TBA
- [Myers]
- Glenford J. Myers,
The Art of Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons, 1979
(in Danish: Kunsten at teste edb-programmer, Borgen, 1984).
- [Kit]
- Edward Kit,
Software Testing in the Real World,
Addison-Wesley, 1995.
- [GJM]
- Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Dino Mandrioli,
Fundamentals
of Software Engineering,
Prentice-Hall, 1991.
- [Ced2003]
- Per Cederqvist et al,
Version Management with CVS, 2003.
- [GoF]
- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
(The Gang of Four),
Design
Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software,
ISBN 0-201-63361-2, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
- [UML]
- Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott,
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 2/E,
ISBN 0-201-65783-X, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
- [XML]
- Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler (eds),
Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C
Recommendation, 6 October 2000.
- [Nam]
- Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman (eds),
Namespaces in
XML, W3C Recommendation, 14 January 1999.
- [InfoSet]
- John Cowan, Richard Tobin (eds),
XML Information Set,
W3C Recommendation, 24 October, 2001.
- [XPath]
- James Clark and Steve DeRose(eds),
XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0,
W3C Recommendation, 16 November 1999.
- [SAX]
- David Megginson, SAX Project,
SAX: Quickstart, http://www.saxproject.org.
- [Hutton]
- Graham Hutton,
Higher-order functions for parsing,
J. Functional Programming 2(3):323-343, 1992.
- [XSLT]
- James Clark (ed),
XSL Transformations
(XSLT) 1.0, W3C Recommendation, 16 November 1999.
- [XQuery]
- Scott Boag, Don Chamberlin, Mary F. Fernández, Daniela
Florescu, Jonathan Robie, Jérôme Siméon (eds),
XQuery 1.0: An XML
Query Language, W3C Working Draft, 15 November 2002.
- [XQuerySem]
- Denise Draper, Peter Fankhauser, Mary Fernández, Ashok
Malhotra, Kristoffer Rose, Michael Rys, Jérôme
Siméon, Philip Wadler (eds),
XQuery 1.0
and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics, W3C Working Draft, 15
November 2002.
- [XQueryData]
- Mary Fernández, Ashok Malhotra,Jonathan Marsh, Marton
Nagy, Norman Walsh (eds),
XQuery 1.0
and XPath 2.0 Data Model, W3C Working Draft, 15
November 2002.
- [SOAP0]
- Nilo Mitra (ed), SOAP
Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer, W3C Candidate
Recommendation, 19 December 2002.
- [SOAP1]
- Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Noah Mendelsohn, Jean-Jacques
Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (eds), SOAP
Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework, W3C Candidate
Recommendation, 19 December 2002.
- [SOAP2]
- Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Noah Mendelsohn, Jean-Jacques
Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (eds), SOAP
Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts, W3C Candidate
Recommendation, 19 December 2002.
- [WSDL]
- Roberto Chinnici, Martin Gudgin, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Sanjiva
Weerawarana, Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2, W3C
Working Draft, 24 January 2003.
Last updated: Apr 2, 2003 (Fritz Henglein)