Software Engineering for Internet Applications

Course Description:  This course unit shall cover challenges  of  concurrency (say 1000 people might be using the system at the same time), unpredictable load (say 100,000 users might show up tomorrow even if only 100 are using the system today), security risks, opportunity for wide-area distributed computing, creating a reliable and state-full user experience on top of unreliable connections and stateless protocols, extreme requirements and absurd development schedules , requirements that change mid-way through a project, sometimes because of experience gained from testing with users, user demands for a multi-modal interface: Web, mobile (WAP), and voice. Aims:Modern internet applications exhibit a form of online community in which customers are an integral part of the system. The aim of the course is to learn: 

•  About the stateless and anonymous protocol that makes Web development different from classical inter-computer application development
•  Why the relational database management system is key to controlling the concurrency problem that arises from multiple simultaneous users
• To develop software to read and write Extensible Markup Language (XML).