MC365 Introduction to Class

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MC365Introduction to Class
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Today We Will

• Go over the goals of the class.
• Review the syllabus.
• Introduce ourselves.
• Break up into teams to exchange contact
  information.

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Goals of the Class

• This class will cover the general principles that
  all software engineers use including the software
  development life cycle.
• Specifically, we will discuss the various phases
  of software development.
• In addition, we will concentrate on software
  engineering using J2EE technologies.

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Why J2EE?

• There are dozens of different technologies that
  developers can use to develop large-scale
  enterprise systems.
• Some examples of the more popular ones include
• Microsoft .Net technology.
• Oracle developer tools.
• Customizable vendor products like PeopleSoft.
• Older, traditional technologies like mainframe
  applications written in COBOL, PL/1, etc.
• Distributed applications using languages like
  C.
• J2EE technologies.

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What Is J2EE?

• So why choose J2EE technologies of the others?
• To answer this we need understand what J2EE is.
• Sun describes J2EE as a technology that provides
  a component-based approach to the design,
  development, assembly, and deployment of
  enterprise applications. The J2EE platform
  offers a multitiered distributed application
  model, the ability to reuse components,
  integrated extensible markup language (XML)-based
  data interchange, a unified security model, and
  flexible transaction control. Not only can you
  deliver innovative customer solutions to market
  faster than ever, but your platform-independent
  J2EE component-based solutions are not tied to
  the products and application programming
  interfaces (APIs) of any one vendor. Vendors and
  customers enjoy the freedom to choose the
  products and components that best meet their
  business and technological requirements.

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What Is J2EE?

• So, what exactly does that mean?
• J2EE stands for Java 2 Enterprise Edition.
• It is a specification developed by a consortium
  of various businesses and academics headed by Sun
  Microsystems.
• It defines a standard by which software
  developers can build components to work together
  in an enterprise-wide architecture.

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So Again Why J2EE?

• The biggest benefit J2EE offers over other
  technologies is interoperability.
• J2EE is open-standard meaning the specifications
  are published and known to all developers.
• Developers know that any component (developed now
  or in the future) that meets the J2EE
  specification can be used in their enterprise
  system.
• This is a huge advantage over proprietary systems
  like Oracle and other vendor-driven applications.
• This offers much more flexibility in system
  design.
• We will use J2EE in this class because more and
  more companies are choosing this technology to
  develop their enterprise systems.
• Also most of the technologies are free

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The Overall Goal of the Class

• To prepare you for a career in software
  engineering by
• Making sure you understand the software
  development life cycle,
• Developing your understanding of the J2EE
  architecture , and
• Developing your skills with some of the more
  popular tools used by software engineers today.
• Note We could spend an entire semester on any
  one topic we are going to cover in this class.
  Instead, the goal here is to give you enough of
  an overview so that you have a working knowledge
  of the tools and concepts.

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How the Class Will Be Structured

• With that in mind, lets look at the
  syllabushttp//www2.bc.edu/bernier