Topics

1. Characterization of distributed systems
   • Introduction and examples of distributed systems
   • System models: architectural models and fundamental models
2. Distributed objects and remote invocation
   • Communication between Distributed Objects
   • Remote Procedure Calling
   • Events and Notifications
   • CORBA
   • Java RMI
   • Jini: Robust, evolvable, plug-and-play systems; Service discovery, registration and lookup; Remote events, leasing;
3. Component-based development
   • UML and component-based design
   • JavaBeans: Reusable component development
   • CORBA component model
   • Enterprise Java Beans: Session Beans - stateful and stateless; Entity Beans;
4. Service-oriented architectures
5. Other development approaches
   • Model driven development
   • Aspect-oriented development for middleware-based applications
6. Design patterns for distributed applications
   • Service access and configuration patterns
   • Event handling patterns
   • Synchronization patterns
   • Concurrency patterns