Winter
2009/10

Middleware Platforms
(half-course, 4VL + 2 PR)

Instructor(s): Prof. Redlich, Dr. Zubow
Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday, 09:30-11:00, RUD 26, Room 1'303
Lab/PR: Tuesday or Thursday, 11:15-12:45, RUD 26, Room 1'303
 

Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

• Half-Course, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium/Masterstudium.
• Offered regularly, usually in fall, at least once every two years.
• 2 lectures per week, over one semester (4SWS VL + 2SWS PR).
• Prerequisites: PI 1,2,3; basic knowledge in computer networks (TCP/IP), Java, XML.

Credits and grading:

• Oral examinations are offered by the instructor at the end of the semester, and at the beginning of the following semester.
• To qualify for the examination, students have to complete lab assignments to the satisfaction of the teaching assistant.

Lab (Praktikum):

• Labs are scheduled every 2 weeks at the time and place specified above. A teaching assistant will be present at each lab to assist students with questions and problems.
• Participation (physical presence) at the lab is mandatory in order to obtain credits for the assignment.
• A lab worksheet will be published on this web site a few days before the corresponding lab is scheduled (usually Friday). Students should use this time to adequately prepare for the lab.
• Results have to be submitted via GOYA for grading. Submission deadlines are specified on the worksheets (usually 14 days after the assignment was published).
• Worksheets: [lab1], [lab2], [lab3], [lab4], [lab5]
• Slides: [lab1], [lab2], [lab3], [lab4], [lab5]
• Deadlines:

  	Vorbesprechung (preliminary talk)	Abgabe (delivery)	Nachbesprechung (review)
  Lab 1	27/29.10.2009	16.11.2009	24/26.11.2009
  Lab 2	17/19.11.2009	30.11.2009	08/10.12.2009
  Lab 3	08/10.12.2009	04.01.2010	12/14.01.2010
  Lab 4	05/07.01.2010	18.01.2010	26/28.01.2010
  Lab 5	19/21.01.2010	01.02.2010	09/11.02.2010

Syllabus:

A. Introduction

Admin Info lecture slides [pdf] Motivation lecture slides [pdf] Client Server Model, Variations, Objects lecture slides [pdf] Design Patterns lecture slides [pdf] Erich Gamma. Design Patterns. 1997. ISBN 0201633612 Patterns Library: http://hillside.net/patterns/ Inter Process Communication / Network Communication  (optional) informational slides - not presented in class [pdf] W. R. Stevens. UNIX Network Programming, The Sockets Networking. 2004. ISBN 013490012X Ulrike Hammerschall. Verteilte Systeme und Anwendungen. Pearson, 2005.

	B. Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
	Programming model Remote Interfaces and Remote Objects Architecture Parameter passing Failure handling Naming Development Process lecture slides [pdf] SUN's RMI tutorial  [http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/rmi/RMI.html] [cached pdf]

C. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)

CORBA Architecture Overview lecture slides [pdf] Hello World in CORBA lecture slides [pdf] ORB Architecture lecture slides [pdf] CORBA IDL lecture slides [pdf] Interoperability lecture slides [pdf] Common Object Services lecture slides [pdf] CORBA Component Model  (optional) informational slides - not presented in class Jens-Peter Redlich. Corba 2.0. Praktische Einführung für C++ und Java. ISBN 3827310601 Jon Siegel. CORBA 3 - Fundamentals and Programming. ISBN 0471295183 The Rise and Fall of CORBA ORB interoperability (IONA/Orbix handbook chapter)

	F. WebServices
	WebServices Overview lecture slides [pdf] The Java WebServices Tutorial

D. Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

Introduction lecture slides [pdf] Component Models lecture slides [pdf] Architectural Overview lecture slides [pdf] (dynamic proxy [zip]) Primary Services lecture slides [pdf] Development lecture slides [pdf] Persistence Basic Persistence [pdf] O/R Mapping [pdf] Entity Relationships [pdf] Entity Inheritance [pdf] Query Language [pdf] Entity Callbacks [pdf] Session Beans lecture slides [pdf] Interceptors lecture slides [pdf] Message-Driven Beans lecture slides [pdf] Transactions lecture slides [pdf] Web Services lecture slides [pdf] Quiz tricky [pdf] EJB Specification, 3.0, http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/index.html EJB Specification, 2.1, http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 by B. Burke, R. M.-Haefel, Covers EJB 3.0, ISBN 0-596-00978-X Enterprise JavaBeans by Richard Monson-Haefel, Covers EJB 2.1, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00530-X Java Message Service by R. Monson-Haefel, D. Chappell, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00068-5 Java RMI by W. Grosso, O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 1-565-92452-5

E. Microsoft .NET

.NET Framework (Overview) lecture slides [pdf] CRL lecture slides [pdf] Assemblies lecture slides [pdf] .NET Remoting lecture slides [pdf] §Howard Gilbert – .NET Framework http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/tp/framework.htm §Microsoft .NET: Implement a Custom Common Language Runtime Host for Your Managed App http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/03/clr/default.aspx §Application Domain FAQ http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/clr/AppdomainFAQ.aspx §Narayana Rao Surapaneni – Programming Basics in Intermediate Language http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=25917 §Jeffrey Richter – Garbage Collection http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/msdnmag/issues/1100/gci/toc.asp .NET Remoting – Design and Develop Seamless Distributed Applications for the Common Language Runtime [cached pdf] http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netremoting/default.aspx Microsoft .NET Remoting: A Technical Overview [cached pdf] http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/hawkremoting.asp Jeffrey M. Richter. Microsoft .NET Framework-Programmierung in C#. Expertenwissen zur CLR und dem .NET Framework 2.0. 2006. ISBN: 3860639846. McLean, Naftel, Williams - Microsoft .NET Remoting http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735617783