CS 447 Distributed Objects

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CS 447 Distributed Objects

• Instructor Shangping Ren

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Contact Info

• Instructor Shangping Ren
• Office 228E SB
• Email ren_at_iit.edu
• Phone [phone]
• Office Hours M/W 315 pm to 430 pm

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Course Objective

1. Understand the basic concept of distributed
   systems and distributed objects
2. Understand the principles of Object-Oriented
   Middleware and common design problems for
   distributed systems
3. Understand advantages and disadvantages of
   various multi-tier software architectures
4. Using business objects to construct software
   applications
5. Functions of an Object Request Broker (ORB)
6. Interface Definition Languages
7. Common distributed services Naming Service,
   Trading Service, Notification Service
8. Common distributed messaging passing styles in
   distributed applications (e.g. Request-Reply,
   Point-to-Point, Publish-Subscribe)
9. Persist distributed object states
10. Security issues with distributed computing
11. Hands-on experience with building distributed,
    multi-tier applications using distributed object
    technology
12. State of the Art

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Topics

1. Distributed Systems
2. Design Distributed Objects
3. Middleware for Distributed Objects
4. CORBA
5. Resolving Heterogeneity
6. IDL
7. Dynamic Object Requests
8. Common Design Problems
9. Locating Distributed Objects
10. Life Cycle of Distributed Objects
11. Naming Service
12. Trading Service
13. Notification Service
14. Object Persistence
15. Security
16. State of the art in DC

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Reading Materials

• Primary text books
• Gerald Brose, Keith Duddy, and Andreas Vogel,
  "Java Programming with CORBA, Third Edition,"
  John Wiley Sons, (January 2001) ISBN
  0-471-37681-7
• Wolfgang Emmerich, Engineering Distributed
  Objects John Wiley Sons, (Re-Print January
  2004) ISBN 0-471-98657-7
• Optional readings
• www.omg.org documents
• Research papers that will be distributed in class

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Software Needed for Your Projects

• CORBA
• Programming Language (Java, C)
• Useful links
• http//www.wiley.com//legacy/compbooks/brose/
• http//www.jacorb.org/
• http//www.cs.wustl.edu/schmidt/corba.html

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Tentative Course Schedule

• Lectures
• Introduction to distributed systems and
  distributed objects
• Principles of Object-Oriented Middleware
• CORBA, COM and Java/RMI
• Resolving Heterogeneity
• Dynamic Object Requests
• Communication between Distributed Objects
• Midterm
• Locating Distributed Objects
• Trading Service and Naming Service
• Advanced Features
• Event Services
• Notification Services
• Persistent Services
• Transaction Services
• Security

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Tentative Course Schedule

1. Distributed Systems
2. Design Distributed Objects
3. Middleware for Distributed Objects
4. CORBA
5. Resolving Heterogeneity
6. IDL
7. Dynamic Object Requests
8. Common Design Problems
9. Locating Distributed Objects
10. Exam 1 (March 1)
11. Life Cycle of Distributed Objects
12. Naming Service
13. Trading Service
14. Notification Service
15. Object Persistence
16. Security
17. State of the art in DC
18. Exam 2 (April 24)

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Tentative Course Schedule

• Exam 1 March 1, 2006
• Exam 2 April 24, 2006
• Project 1
• Assign Feb. 1, 2006
• Code due before class on Feb 20, 2006
• Demo in class and office hours
• Project 2
• Assign Feb 22, 2006
• Code due March 20, 2006
• Demo in class and office hours
• Project 3 (Term Project)
• Assign March 22, 2006
• Proposal Due April 12, 2006
• Code Due May 1, 2006
• Demo May 1, May 3, 2006

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Grading

• Exams 50
• Exam 1 20
• Exam 2 30
• Project 50
• Project 1 10
• Project 2 15
• Project 3 25 10 (proposal) 10 (code) 5
  (demo)
• Late Policy
• Being x day late, deduct 10x