Hypermedia Applications

Synthetic program:

This course aims at providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to design and to implement complex, high quality web based hypermedia applications for stationary and mobile devices. The course is organized in two parts.Part I focuses on conceptual design. It proposes the IDM Model as a means to define information architectures, and navigation, interaction, and presentation features of complex multi-channel applications, and emphasizes the need for making the user experience in the different contexts easy and effective. Part II focuses on technology. The addressed topics include: overview of web architectures and protocols, languages for web data representation (XML/XHTML) and layout (CSS), technologies for dynamic web page execution on the client side (Javascript and DOM), technologies for remote services call (Asynchronous Javascript, AJAX, and JSON), technologies for dynamic web page execution on the server side (Java JSP / Servlet), architectural patterns for web applications (MVC and DAO), the cloud computing paradigm and web application development on Google App Engine platform. The course includes a number of sessions devoted to exemplify, through exercises, live demos, and case studies, the methods and concepts presented in the various lectures.