Kosice Course

[ Project | Slides | Literature | Links | Downloads ]

Project

The description of the project for the course in Košice is on a different page.

Slides

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

Literature

This literature is not required for the examination.

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Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards, The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-12993-3 (A bit outdated, but this books gives a broad overview of the subject).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

Bill McCarty, Luke Cassady-Dorion, Java Distributed Objects, Sams, 1999, 0-672-31537-8. (out of print)

The following documents contain important information when you want to know more.

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

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.

Downloads

Please note: I have not checked if these links are still valid.

• 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

-- PietVanOostrum - 25 Feb 2009