TCOM 799 - Special Topics in TCOM:Web Technologies,Protocols,and Applications

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Prerequisite(s): TCOM 500 and knowledge of OO programming (Java or C++ preferred). This course introduces the main concepts of Web technologies with special emphasis on contemproary Web design issues. The topics continually evolve as new Web technologies and protocols emerge. The course starts with an overview of key Web software technologies (Web clients, Web proxies, Web servers, Web gateways, and cookies). This includes a discussion of HTTP protocol design and its interaction with TCP/IP. The second part of the course concentrates on Next Generation Web with special attention to XML and its variants, Web Services, and Web-based Architectures. The emphasis of this part is on emerging approaches to build Web applications by using components based on XML Web Services, .NET, J2EE. The course concludes with a discussion of Web engineering issues and an examination of Web traffic measurement, Web caching, and multimedia over Web. The course stresses the role of Web in supporting the modern large-scale applications by using a variety of middleware components. Emerging areas to be discussed in the telecom industry, and Web-based integration architectures. Students will have an opportunity to work with various Web tools, develop a simple Web server, and investigate special areas of interest to them.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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