Catalog Course Description

Rationale

Academic and business organizations are moving their computer processing and operations to a distributed environment and client/server acrhitecture to take advantage of the Internet revolution. These large re-engineering and system integrattion projects require a significant investment in resources. However, the lack of proper expertise and the confusion surrounding the issues of open systems and client/server architecture often lead to project failures.

This course will introduce students to the evolution, advantages and pitfalls of client/server computing. Understanding client/server architecture and relevant issues is central to the success of distributed and cooperative processing applications such as electronic commerce and data warehousing.

Objectives

At the end of the course, the students are expected to:

• discuss issues on the implementation and management of client/server systems;
• develop client/server database applications;
• develop client/server applications using components and distributed objects; and
• implement a client/server project.