Enterprise System Integration 2023/24 spring

Lectures (Mon. 14:15 - 16:00) - Delta Room 1019

The lectures are organized into five parts:

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Part 1 - Essential Technologies for ESI (Web services, REST/RESTful APIs, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture, etc.)

1. Introduction to Enterprise System Integration (12/2/2023)

Covers:

• Course Introduction (Course Description, Scope of the course, Structure of the Course, Grading, Assignments, Project, Exam, Instructors, etc.).
• Introduction to Enterprise System Integration (Why Enterprise System Integration is important? motivating scenario, classical systems VS enterprise systems, Monolithic, SOA and Microservices architectures, etc.).
  • Course introduction
  • Core Assignments, Project and Exam
  • Lecture 1
  • Assignments 1

2. Web Services (19/2/2023)

Covers:

• What are web services? their communication protocols, their differences, and similarities, etc.
• Principles of the REST architecture, key concepts, and how they can be applied.
• The MVC (CSR) Pattern.
• Building simple RESTful APIs (CRUD operations)
  • Lecture 2

3. Building RESTful APIs (CRUD operations) (26/2/2023)

Covers:

• CRUD principles and concepts, and how they can be mapped to REST commands.
  • Lecture 3

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Part 2 – From monolithic to microservices architecture (Covers the fundamental principles for [enterprise] systems engineering, Domain-driven design (DDD) Approach, and Microservices Architecture)

4. The Microservices Architecture (4/3/2023)

Covers:

• Fundamental concepts related to Microservices architecture design and implementation.
  • Lecture 4
  • Assignments 2

5. The Domain-driven design (DDD) Approach - I - fundamentals (11/3/2023)

Covers:

• System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• [Enterprise] System requirements.
• [Enterprise] System Architecture.
• Models and modeling
• Domain models and domain modeling.
  • Lecture 5

6. The Domain-driven design (DDD) Approach - II (18/3/2023)

Covers:

• What is the DDD approach?
• The key building blocks DDD (e.g., Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates, Repositories), and demonstrate how they can be applied.
• How we can use the DDD approach.
• How DDD can help in designing a Microservices Architecture.
• Advantages and disadvantages of using DDD.
  • Lecture 6
  • Assignments 3

7. Integration patterns in Microservice architecture (25/3/2023)

Covers:

• Several patterns for Microservice integration.
  • Lecture 7

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Part 3 – The client side - Frontend (Vue.js)

8. Vue.js (1/4/2023)

Covers:

• The Single-Page Applications (SPA) concept, Vue core concepts such as Routers & Views, Single File Components (SFC), Data, Props and Methods, Vue Directives, Computed and watched properties, Vue elements Lifecycle hooks, and CRUD Operations.
  • Lecture 8
  • Project description, checkpoints, and presentation

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Part 4 – The Security Aspects of Integration

9. Security Aspects of Integration - Building a JWT-based Auth Service for a Spring Boot App (8/4/2023)

Covers:

• Core Spring Boot security concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Granted Authorities/Roles, and Principles), How authentication/authorization works, Spring Boot in-memory auth/auth, Spring Boot auth/auth through JPA/DB, and OAuth2.
• Cookies, JSON Web Token (JWT), JWT structure (Header, Payload, signature), the use of JWT for RBAC, etc.
  • Lecture 9

10. Security Aspects of Integration - III – Building a Secure" project (Spring Boot + VueJs) for Microservice-based Systems (15/4/2023)

Covers:

• Key design principles and technologies for Building a Secure" project (Spring Boot + VueJs) for Microservice-based Systems.
  • Lecture 10

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Part 5 – Project consultation/checkpoints, and Exam preparation

11. Project consultation (22/4/2023)

12. Project consultation (29/4/2023)

13. Project consultation (6/5/2023)

14. Project consultation (13/5/2023)

15. Course Wrap-up, review, and exam method description (20/5/2023)

Covers:

• Summarize and review the ESI Course, and provide a description of the exam method and structure.
  • Lecture 15

16. The first exam (27/5/2023)