Materials

• Required Text:
  • Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, and Tim Kindberg, Addison Wesley/ Pearson Education, ISBN: 0321263545, 4th edition, June 2005.
     
    
   
  

• Supplementary Texts:

  There are no recommended supplementary texts. A lot of the material we use for CORBA, EJB, Jini, and SOAs can be obtained from sample textbook chapters off the internet. Feel free to purchase books that are related to specific technologies.

• Papers:

  Selected papers from journals or conferences will be made available on RamCT.

• Lecture slides:

  Class notes will be availble on RamCT.

• Useful links on the WWW:
  • Jini in a NutShell - sample chapter
    • Chapter 4
  • Jini - Example by Example - sample chapter
    • Chapter 4
  • Core Jini - Sample chapters
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 10
  • Applying Enterprise JavaBeans - Matena et al.
    • Chapter 1 (2nd edition)
    • Chapter 7 (1st edition)
    • Chapter 8 (1st edition)
    • Chapter 9 (2nd edition)
  • Pattern Oriented Software Architecture: Some of the patterns available in the book Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects --- Douglas Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition Vol 2 (September 25, 2000), ISBN 0471606952. will be discussed in class. Here are some online resources:
    • Service Access and Configuration Patterns
      • Wrapper Facade
      • Component (or Service) Configurator
    • Event Handling Patterns
      • Reactor
      • Proactor
    • Synchronization Patterns
      • Scoped Locking
      • Strategized Locking, Thread-safe Interface, and Scoped Locking
      • Double-Checked Locking Optimization
    • Concurrency Patterns
      • Active Object
      • Monitor Object