Meetings:
Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 pm Room 425

Overview:
            This course will explore Enterprise Java Beans. Topics covered include entity, session, and message-driven beans, deployment descriptors and JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface).
Security, transactions, bean-managed and container-managed persistence, and scalability will be covered. The benefits and limitations provided by the relationship between the EJB and the container (server) are included.Students will build and deploy a sample EJB application.

Prerequisites:
            CISH-6960 Web Technologies, CSCI-4380 Database Systems, and familarity with Java. You'll need to create JSP pages and servlets, write deployment descriptors (XML documents) and Oracle DDL and DML SQL.

Objectives:

1. Understand the relationship between EJB and the EJB container.
2. Describe the benefits, limitations, and costs of EJBs.
3. Explain the relationship of EJB to other portions Java 2 Enterprise Edition.
4. List and describe the people roles of EJB.
5. Describe the purpose of, distinctions between, and lifecycle of:
• entity beans
• session beans
• stateless
• stateful
• message-driven
6. Explain the purpose and format of deployment descriptors.
7. Explain security considerations of EJBs.

Syllabus

Internet and e-mail

· if not familar with the Sun operating system, attend the Sun user's workshop and/or review the network user's guide
· subscribe to the listserv
· forward their Rensselaer email address to another address, if desired. (see http://www.rh.edu/tis/internal/UserGuide/messages.html#m10)
· review the web site at the beginning of the course and when suggested by the listserv.

Enterprise Java Beans Grading

Attendance	5%
Assignments	45%
Final	50%

    The final exam is closed book and notes.

    There are specific requirements for hardcopy assigments which must be followed.

    The student is responsible for ensuring the material required by the assignment is turned in.  Excuses such as 'Someone from work must have taken my printout' and 'I know I forgot the output but you can see the code is correct' will not be accepted.  There are no redos, extra credit projects, etc.

    The only deviations from this policy will be due to serious injury or illness of the student or immediate family member. Contact me as soon as practical in this event.

    Final grades will be curved using a modified Z-score. Raw scores about 90% or a z-score above 1 (i.e. your score is more than one standard deviation above class average) will be awarded an "A."  The instructor may, at his discretion, lower the minimum score for an A at the end of the semester based on inspection of the score distribution.

Office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays and selected Saturdays by appointment. Since class meets one day a week, attendance is essential and will be noted. You are highly encouraged to utilize the listserv and email to contact me with questions and problems. Assignments must be handed in on time. In order to allow prompt return of assignments, they will not be accepted late. In general, makeup exams will not be given. If you anticipate being unable to attend class, please notify me before class to make arrangements for any assignments that may be due. If an emergency arises, please contact me.

It should be understood that as an adjunct lecturer, I generally have no reason to be at Rensselaer other than on class nights; you should not expect items left for me in my engineering department mailbox to be received quickly.

In order to facilitate the answering of questions, Rensselaer at Hartford has set up a listserv. This will allow you to contact each other as well as myself with questions pertaining to course content, assignments, or the use of the compiler. To subscribe, send an email to "listserv@rh.edu" and include the line "subscribe ejb" in the message body. See http://www.rh.edu/tis/listserv.html. Alternatively, you can use a the use the form found on http://www.charlesconsulting.com/scripts/listserv.pl. To unsubscribe, use the instructions you received when you subscribed or use this link. Students are responsible for information posted to the listserv.

Questions regarding assignments or general questions should sent to the listserv. This ensures all students have access to the same information. Only questions regarding a specific situation should be sent directly to me.  General questions sent directly to me may be returned unanswered with a request to repost the question to the listserv.

Student-teacher relationships are built on trust. For example, students must trust that teachers have made appropriate decisions about the structure and content of the courses they teach, and teachers must trust that the assignments which students turn in are their own. Acts, which violate this trust, undermine the educational process.

The Rensselaer Handbookdefines various forms of Academic Dishonesty and procedures for responding to them. All forms are violations of the trust between students and teachers. Students should familiarize themselves with this portion of the Rensselaer Handbook and should note that the penalties for plagiarism and other forms of cheating can be quite harsh.

The expectation is every student will do their own work. Discussion, exchange of ideas, assistance in debugging or illustrating concepts with sample code is okay and encouraged, but the expectation is each student will submit assignments they have typed, compiled, and testing themselves. This is the default condition at Rensselaer unless otherwise specified by the instructor. Any form of collaboration on the individual portions of this course will be considered as cheating and I will take immediate action to stop such behavior. Penalties for students who violate the code of academic honesty include dismissal from Rensselaer at Hartford. (See the student catalog or review online at http://www.rh.edu/dept/pub/Catalog9899/policies.html#AD)

The following requirements apply to hardcopy submissions:

See official Rensselaer at Hartford policy.  Bottom line: your safety is more important than getting to class. If you feel you're circumstances preclude you from getting here safetly, don't come. Email me when you can.