1.  Final Exam

All the relevant information about the final exam will appear on this page. Make sure to visit often (especially during the last week before the exam).

You can find the summary presentation here.

1.1  Date and time

Tuesday, 20.04.10, 15:30-18:30 in MS119

1.2  Additional information

Some facts first. As you already know, the exam is computer based.

You will work with one web application, which has both, a client and a server side. You will have both, practical and theoretical questions of the following flavor:

• add/remove functionality from the web application
• given a requirement, explain how to add it to the web application
• describe the implementation of a certain feature in the web application
• describe the architecture of the web application

In addition you will have general web-related theoretical questions.

1.3  Exam material

The material for the exam is ALL the material covered in class, tutorials, assignments, and the term project.

1.4  Your environment

You will develop under the Windows operating system. You will have the following applications installed:

• Web server: Tomcat
• Editors: Eclipse, SciTE, TextPad, Vim
• Browsers: IE, FF, Safari (no Chrome!)

1.5  Documentation

You are not required to remember every single Java method. You will be provided with an extensive documentation which includes:

• Java API
• Java Servlets API
• HTML and CSS specifications
• HTML DOM specification
• JavaScript specification
• XMLHttpRequest specifications
• RSS and ATOM specifications
• Mirror of the course website

1.6  What you can and cannot bring...

You can bring any material as long as it is in hard-copy (e.g. books, print-outs, personal notes, etc.).

You cannot bring disk-on-keys, laptops, mobile phones, or any other electronic device which can be used for storage, execution, or communication.