Enterprise Middleware Coursework

This coursework covers the development of an enterprise application using Quarkus and is deployed to a PaaS cloud. The coursework is designed to give students hands on experience with building enterprise applications. Furthermore, all the technologies used are production grade, given the students the experience and knowledge they need to build a real enterprise application.

Note	This coursework was produced by Newcastle University (UK) in conjunction with Red Hat. It’s available under an Open Source licence. However, the exact licence is still to be decided.

If you want to run this coursework at your University, then we encourage you to do so. However, you would be advised to contact paul.robinson@redhat.com first. This will allow us to provide you with some support and also give you access to the private materials (model answer and marking scheme).

We have provided all the materials needed, to deliver this course at your University. In particular the following materials are available:

Tutorial

This document instructs the students how to setup the various accounts they require during the coursework. It also guides them through setting up a sample application and then deploying it to the Cloud. This sample application is then used to build upon during the coursework.

View the tutorial document

There is also a video available to watch here. In this video a member of staff, at Newcastle University, walks through the tutorial with the students. This video has a few Newcastle specific bits in, but could be valuable to your students anyway, providing they understand this caveat.

Coursework

This document tells the students what they need to do during the coursework.

View the coursework document

Model Answer

The model answer shows a completed version of the coursework. This MUST NOT be show to the students, it’s sole purpose is to educate teaching staff on what we think a good solution looks like. The model answer is in a private repo. You need to contact paul.robinson@redhat.com to gain access.

View model answer

Marking Scheme

There is also a suggested marking scheme. This is the one used by Newcaslte University. You are free to use it as is, modify it for your needs, or come up with an entirely new one.

Contact paul.robinson@redhat.com to obtain this document.

Building docs

The following command builds the html version of this coursework:

asciidoctor -a stylesheet=./stylesheets/riak.css ./coursework.asciidoc
asciidoctor -a stylesheet=./stylesheets/riak.css ./tutorial.asciidoc
asciidoctor -a stylesheet=./stylesheets/riak.css ./frequentlyaskedquestions.asciidoc