Announcements

This page contains all CS/CIS 530 announcements, most recent first.

• 05/08/05: WS examples from the EJB book: There seem to be some problems. See this page for a discussion. Thanks to Hugo Fierro for pointing this out.

• 05/05/05: Laptops must be turned in before 05/20/05. Return them to Kathy Carpenter (4115 Upson) during Cornell business hours. If your laptop has not been returned, I cannot submit a course grade for you.

• 05/05/05: The promised Web Services EJB “Hello World” example writeup (detailed instructions using JBoss-IDE and WSCompile) will appear this evening here.

• 05/05/05: Final Exam: As discussed in class, the final is a 48-hour take-home. You can get it any time between Saturday 05/07/05 around 4:00 PM and Thursday 05/18/05 around 4:00 PM. Standard method for getting it is to pick up hardcopy from Kathy Carpenter (4115 Upson) during Cornell business hours. You can pick it up at other times (within reason) by arranging for me to email you a PDF file. The point to enable us to record when you picked up the exam. You then turn it in within 48 hours on CMS.

• 04/30/05: Here is the final step, Project 1d.

• 04/28/05: WS examples from the EJB book are here.

• 04/23/05: Here is the third step, Project 1b.

• 04/21/05: There is an issue renaming a MS SQL Server machine (to enable one of the course laptops to access the database of another). If you want to do this, instructions are here, thanks to Gennady.

• 04/14/05: Here is the second step, Project 1b.

• 04/14/05: Prelim grades have been posted on CMS.

• 04/07/05: Here at last is the first step of Project 1.

• 04/04/05: Solution set for Prelim 1 is here.
  

• 03/16/05: An elaboration of the integrity rules for the Prelim is here.
  

• 03/14/05: Here is prelim 1 as promised. It will be due in CMS on midnight of the 18th. Good luck!
  

• 03/11/05: There is a newsgroup for CS530: it is cornell.class.cs530 on the NNTP server newsstand.cit.cornell.edu. It seems to work.

  I shall use the newsgroup to post answers to any questions about the prelim. Serious bugs discovered in the prelim will also be announced here.

  The project will begin in earnest right after break; so if you haven't yet found a partner you should use the newsgroup to help you do so.
  

• 02/23/05: Yong's office hours today, Wed 3:00 PM, are in his office: Upson 4142.
  

• 02/22/05: Project 0 will be submitted in CMS this Thursday (02/24/05). The project description has been updated with some sample forms and what to turn in. Yong will have office hours tomorrow, Wed 3:00 PM.
  

• 02/17/05: Project 0 will be submitted in CMS next Thursday (02/24/05). Watch this space for office hours and consulting.
  

• 02/08/05: No lecture on Thursday (10 Feb).

  Pick up loaner laptops and software DVDs during class time on Thursday (11:40-12:55) in Upson 5130. Then start working on Project 0.
  

• 02/03/05: Vote Results: Laptops: Y (overwhelmingly), Groupsize: 2 (by a “mandate”). The recommended components will be
  • Database: MS SQL Server
  • J2EE App Server: JBoss
  • IDE: Eclipse with JBoss plugin
  These will be provided along with laptops.
  

• 01/27/05: By next lecture (i.e. over the weekend) I hope to have my act together about availabity of loaner laptops, group size for the project, and other related issues. Please bear with me.