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Meeting Times and Place: Wednesday 7:20 – 10:00 (see schedule below)
Krug Hall 242
Instructor’s office hours: Wednesday 4-5:30 PM, Nguen Engineering Building rm 4418 (please verify before you come in)
Instructor’s Contact Info: Phone: 703-993-1529,
E-mail: Brodsky@gmu.edu
Fax: 703-993-1710
Teaching Assistant: Sharmila Ramamoorthy
TA Contact Info: E-mail:
sramamoo@masonlive.gmu.edu
TA Office Hours: TBD
Information systems accessible through the World Wide Web and the
Internet are becoming prevalent. This class will discuss technologies
for accessing and manipulation of data that is suitable for WWW
applications. Industry standards will be used throughout. Through this
course, students will learn concepts of data manipulation in modern Internet-based applications and acquire skills
in using the data manipulation tools for building such applications.
Pre-requisites: INFS foundations requirements (INFS 501, 515, 519 and SWE 510), and INFS 614, or equivalent.
Need to have good grasp of relational database concepts and functional SQL skills
Required: None, but a lot of reading materials from the Internet will be assigned by the instructor.
Recommended:
a. Xquery: The XML Query Language, by Michael Brundage, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-16581-0
b. Xquery: the recommended text (see below) or http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
Students are required to attend all the lectures. The planned structure of this class is a late midterm examination, 3 home assignments, and a choice of either a project or a research term paper.
There will be no final exam. Late midterm exam - 50%, 3 home assignments – 15%, a project or research term paper – 35%.
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Lecture |
Homework Assigned |
Homework Due |
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1 |
Aug. 29 |
Introduction; Java and XML |
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2 |
Sep. 5 |
XML Schema and Xpath |
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3 |
Sep. 12 |
Xquery |
http://classweb.gmu.edu/brodsky/infs740/lecture3.pdf |
HA1 |
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4 |
Sep. 19 |
Xquery – cont. |
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Sep. 26 |
No class |
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5 |
Oct. 3 |
XML relational mapping. |
HA2 |
HA1 |
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6 |
Oct.10 |
JDBC – transaction managment |
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7 |
Oct. 17 |
XML database design theory |
http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~marenas/talks/ibm04-a.ppt http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~marenas/talks/pods02.ppt http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~marenas/talks/carleton02.pdf |
HA3 |
HA2 |
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8 |
Oct. 24 |
BPEL – XML Business Process Execution Language |
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9 |
Oct. 31 |
BPQL – Business Process Query Language |
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HA3 |
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10 |
Nov. 2, 5-7pm Friday |
Catch-up and review; preparation for the Exam |
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11 |
Nov. 7 |
Exam |
The following reference materials can be used at the midterm exam: o Xquery: The XML Query Language, by Michael Brundage, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-16581-0 o
XQuery, by Priscilla
Walmsley, O'Reilly, ISBN 978-0-596-00634-1 o Xquery: http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ o BPEL: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/specs/ws-bpel/ws-bpel.pdf |
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Nov. 14 |
Students’ project/term paper presentations |
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Nov. 21 |
No class – Thanksgiving Recess |
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Nov. 28 |
Students’ project/term paper presentations |
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Dec. 5 |
Students’ project/term paper presentations |
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