Application Development

The course is concerned about server application development (backend).

The following topics are included:

• Web services and REST API
• Data persistence, entities, Java Persistence Api (JPA), Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
• The different component roles in an application: repositories, services, controllers, model classes

Java frameworks such as Spring are used for practical application development.

Knowledge - students will understand:

1. The history of server application development
2. The architecture of modern backend applications and microservices
3. The layers of a backend application: data access, services, presentation
4. Object-relational mapping approach and limitations
5. Backend endpoint authentication mechanisms, including tokens (JWT)
6. Communication between backend and frontend systems

Skills - students will be able to:

1. Design a server (backend) application according to business logic
2. Implement a server application using a backend framework such as Java Spring
3. Connect the business logic to a persistent data storage including CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
4. Create automated test suite for a REST API using a tool such as Postman
5. Implement endpoint authentication
6. Present their ideas, knowledge, and results
7. Deploy the application on a server

General competence - students will strengthen the following skills learned previously:

• Agile work methodology
• Version control using GIT
• Can interact with AI-tools about application development topics.

Lectures and exercises, project work in groups.