CS 549 Special Topics: Information-Based Systems

Spring 2008

Instructor: Toshimi Minoura (minoura@cs.orst.edu)

Tentative Course Contents

• Review of Data Modeling
• Installing and Studying Open-Source Web-Based Database Applications
• Automatic Generation of Web Scripts with WebGen
  • Generating configuration files with mmconfgen, mconfgen, layoutgen, and confgen
  • Generating Web scripts with webgen
  • Generating treeviews with treegen_v2
• Ruby on Rails
  • Introduction to Programmiong Language Ruby
  • Object Relational Mapping with ActiveRecord
  • Controls and Views
  • Web-Based Database Applications implemented with Rails on Ruby
• AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • AJAX Basics
  • AJAX Toolkits
  • Editable Tables
• Features for Database Systems
  • Concurrency Control
  • Database Recovery