GCO3823

Client server and mobile database applications

L F Smith

6 points
* 4 hours per week
* First semester
* Gippsland and distance
* Prerequisites: GCO2815 and GCO2813
* Prohibitions: COT3031

Objectives Students completing this subject should be able to contrast the relative strengths and weaknesses of distributed database systems; be familiar with the components of client-server systems, particularly C/S database systems; be able to use a fourth generation language to develop a multi-user client-server database system; be able to develop an application which accesses a database via the WWW and possess an understanding of the special issues of distributed database applications as they relate to mobile client platforms.

Synopsis Distributed database systems: client server (C/S) components; clients; servers; network operating features to support C/S; middleware - RPC, MOM, TP monitors; distributed objects - CORBA, DCOM, OpenDOC; WWW C/S and C/S distributed management. Client-server application development: client-server database architecture, application development using 4GL, GUI and WWW tools, connectivity protocols and standards. Mobile database systems: mobile database architecture, protocols to support mobile databases, mobile transaction management. Access to the university's computer systems via modem is compulsory for distance education students.

Assessment Examination (3 hours): 40%
* Assignments: (2) 60%
* To successfully complete this subject students must achieve at least 50% of the total overall marks with a contribution to this total of no less than 40% of the possible marks from the assignments and no less than 40% of the possible marks from the examination.

Prescribed texts

Orfali R, Harkey D and Edwards J The essential client/server survival guide 2nd edn, Wiley, 1996

Prescribed software

A 32 bit operating system (MS Windows 95, MS Windows NT or LINUX) is required to complete this subject