Objectives

Even if we distance ourselves of the inevitable hype, we can distinguish some remarkable trends in actual application development: information and processing should be available everywhere and on multiple platforms, applications should be more flexible and their set-up more ad-hoc. And, as we do not have the time and the means to create something new for every situation, we often try to re-integrate the things that already exist and to re-use them in new combinations.

This seminar explains some actual topics, mainly in software development, and the technologies they are associated with.

Main topics

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• XML: document, schema, parsers, XPath, XSLT, XQuery
• Distributed Processing / Application servers / Web applications
• Virtualization / Cloud computing
• Java platform: Java SE, Java ME, Java EE; apps, applets, servlets; JSP; EJB
• Microsoft .Net: CLR, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET
• Messaging: MOM, JMS, MQ
• Web Services: WSDL, UDDI, SOAP
• Service Oriented Architecture: SOA, ESB
• Service orchestration: WS-BPEL
• Development processes: RUP, Agile
• Modelling: MDA and UML
• Databases: heterogeneous content (XML, multimedia, code) and information integration
• Products (BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, open source ...)