ICS 425

Client/Server Architectures

4 Undergraduate credits
Effective August 1, 1998 – Present

Graduation requirements this course fulfills

This course is a study of scaling client/server applications enterprise-wide. The course examines why ordinary client/server tools do not scale enterprise wide, and examines the extensions necessary in DB linkage, OS extensions, and networking connections necessary for scaling. The MVC II (Model-View-Controller) design pattern and other useful design patterns will be used to explain typical architectural approaches.

Prerequisites

Special information

Note: Students are responsible to both be aware of and abide by prerequisites for ICS courses for which they enroll, and will be administratively dropped from a course if they have not met prerequisites.

Learning outcomes

General

  • Allocate parts of an application to the correct part of enterprise web application framework.
  • Develop enterprise web applications using the Model View Controller pattern using an enterprise web application framework.
  • Design an enterprise application for scalability and performance.
  • Implement security features into an enterprise web application.
  • Use the enterprise web application framework and evaluate competing enterprise web application frameworks.