CS349 Lecture notes

Lecture notes are organized by topic, not by date. One web page of notes may contain material of more than one in-class lecture.

Lectures

• Overview of e-commerce technology. Examples of commercial web sites
• Overview of Java exceptions and threads
• Java swing package
• Client/Server model, Internet protocols
• Databases, database relational model
• Overview of SQL
• Overview of JDBC
• Writing and running applets with JDBC
• References to material on cryptography
• Java servlets and cookies
• Examples of servlets with the source code
• Putting together applets and servlets (with examples)
• Material on digital signatures, certificates, SSL
• Payments on Internet: credits card payments, electronic payment systems
• A proposal for small amount payment system: Millicent protocol
• Firewalls
• Biometrics
• Security issues in e-commerce, recent security breaches