Course Literature

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Slides

The transparencies of the lectures will be put here as PDF files.

Lecture	Week	Date	Subject	Slides	Extra Files
1	36	Sep 4	Introduction	Introduction
2	37	Sep 9	Java RMI	RMI	RMI example (zip)
3	37	Sep 11	Corba	Corba	Corba examples (zip)
4	38	Sep 16	Python	Python
5	38	Sep 18	COM/DCOM	COM/DCOM
6	39	Sep 23	XMLRPC/SOAP	XMLRPC/SOAP
	39	Sep 25	Design presentations
7	40	Sep 30	Corba2/Activation/POA	Corba2	POA examples (zip)
8	40	Oct 2	Corba 3/RMI-IIOP	Corba 3	RMI-IIOP example (zip)
9	41	Oct 7	DCOM 2/Delegation/Automation	DCOM 2
10	41	Oct 9	Javabeans/EJB	Javabeans/EJB
11	42	Oct 14	Corba Component Model	CCM
12	42	Oct 16	Webservices/SOAP/.NET	Webservices/SOAP/.NET
13	43	Oct 21	Tuple spaces and Object spaces	Tuple spaces and Object spaces
14	43	Oct 23	Asynchronous Communication	Asynchronous Communication	Notify examples (zip)
15	44	Oct 28	Security	Security
	44	Oct 30	Final Presentations

Literature

The following books contain useful information:

Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards, The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-12993-3 (A bit outdated, but this books gives a broad overview of the subject).

Clemens Szyperski, Component Software, Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1997-1999, ISBN 0-201-17888-5

Jon Siegel, Corba 3 Fundamentals and programming, second edition, Wiley, 2000, ISBN 0-471-29518-3.

Michi Henning, Steve Vinoski, Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-37927-9.

Markus Aleksy, Axel Korthaus, Martin Schader, Implementing Distributed Systems with Java and Corba, Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-24173-6

Guy Heddon, Henry Eddon, Inside Distributed COM, Microsoft Press, 1998, ISBN 1-57231-849-X.

Bill McCarty, Luke Cassady-Dorion, Java Distributed Objects, Sams, 1999, 0-672-31537-8.

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Required Reading

The following documents are the required reading for the course. Their contents (together with the slides of the lectures) are the basis for the examination. The collection of these documents can be considered as the reader for the course.

Lecture 1: RPC Andrew D. Birrel and Bruce Jay Nelson, Implementing Remote Procedure Calls Lecture 2: Java RMI Ann Wollrath, Roger Riggs, and Jim Waldo, A Distributed Object Model for the Java System Lecture 3: Corba Corba Tutorial Lecture 5: COM/DCOM The Component Object Model: A Technical Overview Lecture 6: XMLRPC/SOAP Don Box, A Young Person's Guide to The Simple Object Access Protocol Lecture 7: Activation/POA Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, Object Adapters: Concepts and Terminology Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, Using the Portable Object Adapter for Transient and Persistent CORBA Objects POA Policy description Lecture 8: DII/Interface Repository Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, The Dynamic Invocation Interface Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, The Dynamic Skeleton Interface Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, The Interface Repository Lecture 10: EJB Enterprise JavaBeans Fundamentals (This might change!!) Lecture 11: Corba Component Model Raphaël Marvie and Philippe merle, Corba Component Model: Discussion and Use with OpenCCM Lecture 13: Linda/Jini David Gelernter, Generative Communication in Linda. Only part I (pages 80-101). Jim Waldo, The Jini Architecture for Network-centric computing. Lecture 14: Corba AMI Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, An Introduction to CORBA Messaging Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski, Programming Asynchronous Method Invocations with CORBA Messaging Lecture 15: Security Gerald Brose, Corba Security Service

End of Required Reading

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Links

Here are some additional links with background info:

General

• An article about polymorphism (Java)

Java RMI

• Getting Started Using RMI
• RMI Tutorial (follow the links to get the whole tutorial).

Python

• Python tutorial in HTML or PDF.
• Python slides

Corba

• An online Corba book: Corba Explained Simply by Ciaran Hale.
• Sun's Java/Corba documentation

N.B. The last document is very extensive and informative. If you use Corba it is especially useful to read the following parts:

• • Getting Started with Java IDL
  • Java IDL: The "Hello World" Example
  • Using CORBA and Java IDL
  • Developing the Hello World Server
  • Developing a Client Application
  • Developing Clients
  • Initialization
  • Naming Service
  • The Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI)
  • The portable Object Adaptor

• Corba IDL specification
• Introduction to Corba (Java)
• Corba FAQ
• RMI-IIOP
• RMI over IIOP
• RMI over IIOP
• Corba Event Service
• Security Overview

COM

• Microsoft IDL Definition
• Java and COM
• Python and COM
• Three articles for (D)COM developers:
  1. Understanding DCOM - Part I
  2. Understanding DCOM - Part II
  3. Understanding DCOM - Part III

XML-RPC

• XML-RPC specification
• XML-RPC in Python
• XML-RPC: It Works Both Ways

SOAP

The following documents are based on SOAP 1.1, while the current version is 1.2.

• Using WSDL in SOAP Applications
• SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
• SOAP definition
• W3C WSDL definition

Javaspaces

• Eric Freeman and Susanne Hupfer, Make room for JavaSpaces, Part 1-5.

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Downloads

• SOAP for Java
• SOAP for Python
• XML-RPC for Python

• Free Corba implementations:
  • omniORB with bindings for C++ and Python. Runs on Linux, various Unix systems (incl. Mac OS X) and Windows
  • ORBIT, an implementation for Linux and Windows, with bindings for C, C++, Perl, Python, Tcl and others.
  • OpenORB, a Java implementation.
  • JacORB, another Java implementation.
  • Fnorb, a Python implementation.
  • An ORB in Visual Basic!!
  • Furthermore see the Free Corba page and CORBA Software

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