Software Engineering for Internet Applications
內容描述
Description
After completing this
self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students
who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program
will have learned how to build web-based applications on the scale of
Amazon.com. Unlike the desktop applications that most students have already
learned to build, server-based applications have multiple simultaneous users.
This fact, coupled with the unreliability of networks, gives rise to the
problems of concurrency and transactions, which students learn to manage by
using the relational database system. After working their way to the
end of the book, students will have the skills to take vague and ambitious
specifications and turn them into a system design that can be built and
launched in a few months. They will be able to test prototypes with end-users
and refine the application design. They will understand how to meet the
challenge of extreme business requirements with automatic code generation and
the use of open-source toolkits where appropriate. Students will understand
HTTP, HTML, SQL, mobile browsers, VoiceXML, data modeling, page flow and
interaction design, server-side scripting, and usability analysis.The
book, which originated as the text for an MIT course, is suitable for
classroom use and will be a useful reference for software professionals
developing multi-user Internet applications. It will also help managers
evaluate such commercial software as Microsoft Sharepoint of Microsoft Content
Management Server.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1
2 Basics 9 3 Planning 47 4 Software
Structure 63 5 User Registration and Management 75
6 Content Management 97 7 Software Modularity 141
8 Discussion 161 9 Adding Mobile Users to Your
Community 183 10 Voice (VoiceXML) 199 11 Scaling
Gracefully 213 12 Search 241 13 Planning Redux 261
14 Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL 269
15 Metadata (and Automatic Code Generation) 281 16
User Activity Analysis 303 17 Writeup 313
Reference Chapters A HTML 329
B Engagement Management by Cesar Brea 351 C
Grading Standards (for MIT Students) 359 Glossary 363
To the Instructor 375 Sample
Contract (between Student Team and Client) 391 About the
Authors 393 Index 395
