COM3240 - Component-Based Programming
Winter Quarter, Jan 4 - Mar 14, 2000
Tuesdays, 6:00-9:00 P.M.
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Instructor
David H. Lorenz
111 Cullinane Hall,
College of Computer Science,
Northeastern University,
Boston, MA 02115
Internet: lorenz@ccs.neu.edu
TA/Grader:
Predrag Petkovic
Required Textbook
Required Software
Students will receive a CD with the following software:
(license issues in review,
students may need to download a copy directly and sign the agreement.)
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a license for IBM's VisualAge for Java, v3.0, Java 2
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a license for ContextBox,
a version of BeanBox that
supports BeanContext manipulation
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JBuilder 3.0 (University site license)
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Sun's JDK 1.2 and BDK 1.1
Goals.
The goals of the course are:
- Introduce the concept of software component, including
its relationship to the object-oriented programming
paradigm.
- Describe the basic issues present in component frameworks,
including events, properties, introspection and
reflection, persistence, and packaging.
- Introduce different component frameworks, including Java
Beans, COM, and CORBA.
Course Structure.
About one-third of the time would be spent on advanced OO concepts;
another third would be devoted to Java and Sun's component model in detail;
and the last third on selected papers related to component technology.
The programming assignments
will give students hands-on experience programming components in
Java and Java Beans, and using component development environments.
Students will learn how to:
- build a program from existing components
- write components that can be used by others
- extend a component development environment to support new features of components
Guest Lectures. Two guest lectures will be given,
one on CORBA (by OMG) and the other on COM (by Microsoft).
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Dr. Jon Siegel from OMG will give an introduction to CORBA and the OMA, and
will present the new CORBA 3 specification.
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Bob Familiar from Microsoft will give an introduction to COM,
and will share his fond memories from Northeastern.
About the speaker:
Bob Familiar is a Microsoft Architectural Engineer and certified Microsoft Solution Developer with over 14 years of experience in
software engineering. He has developed solutions in C, C++, Java, SQL and Visual Basic and has over 7 years of experience using
Microsoft Development Tools. Bob holds a patent for technology that maps relational database tables to object oriented software
components. Bob's current areas of interest include object oriented analysis and design of distributed object models and distributed
computing using COM+.
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Requirements. The course will consist of readings,
programming assignments, two exams, and a final project (no final
exam). Students will be required to write Java and Java Beans programs
applying the latest features of Java 2.
Content.
Concepts of object-oriented programming that form the basis
for components (e.g., generic programming, programming by
contracts, programming with metaclasses.) Software architecture
for supporting components (e.g., implicit invocation, filters,
reflection.) Theoretical foundations of components (e.g., aspect-oriented
programming, subject-oriented programming, environmental
acquisition.) Concrete realizations of components in some
industry standards (e.g., JavaBeans, EJB, CORBA, COM/DCOM.)
Selective topics in component research. The students will do a
project where some creation, deployment, and evolution methods of
software components are applied.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of OO concepts.
COM3230 Object-Oriented
Design (or by permission of instructor)
Handouts
Related courses and events at Northeastern University
Software
FAQ
- Question: Professor, I heard that if you play the Course CD-ROM
backwards, you'll get a satanic message.
- Answer:
What's more frightening is that if you play it
forward, it installs the problem sets.
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