Summer
2014

Middleware Platforms (Master)

Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

• Praktische Informatik, Master 10 SP
• 2 lectures per week, over one semester (4SWS VL + 2SWS UE).
• Offered regularly, usually in summer, at least once every two years.
• Prerequisites: GdP, preferably also "Operating Systems Principles I".

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 (Übung):

• 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:

Syllabus:

A. Introduction

Admin Info lecture slides Motivation lecture slides Client Server Model, Variations, Objects lecture slides Design Patterns lecture slides   Erich Gamma. Design Patterns. 1997. ISBN 0201633612           (der Klassiker, aber "langweilig") Eric Freeman, Head First Design Patterns, 2004      (etwas moderner und unterhaltsamer) Patterns Library: http://hillside.net/patterns/   Inter Process Communication / Network Communication lecture slides   W. R. Stevens. UNIX Network Programming, The Sockets Networking. 2004. ISBN 013490012X   Robert C. Martin. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. 2008.

	B. Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
	Remote Interfaces and Remote Objects, Parameter passing, Development Process lecture slides SUN's RMI tutorial  [http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/rmi/RMI.html] [cached pdf] Java RMI by W. Grosso, O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 1-565-92452-5

C. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)

CORBA Architecture Overview lecture slides Hello World in CORBA lecture slides ORB Architecture lecture slides CORBA IDL lecture slides Interoperability lecture slides Common Object Services     (optional - not covered in lecture) lecture slides 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)

E. Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

EJB Architecture lecture slides Resource Management (Pooling, Primary Services) lecture slides Persistence lecture slides ----------- für Prüfungen im Juli 2014 sind die nachfolgenden Themen freiwillig -------------   Entity Relationships lecture slides Message-Driven Beans lecture slides Session Beans lecture slides Transactions lecture slides EJB Specification, 3.0, http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/index.html Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 by B. Burke, R. M.-Haefel, Covers EJB 3.0, ISBN 0-596-00978-X   (do not take the 3.1 version!) Java Message Service by R. Monson-Haefel, D. Chappell, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00068-5

F. Microsoft .NET    (optional - not covered in lecture)

.NET Framework (Overview) lecture slides CRL lecture slides Assemblies lecture slides .NET Remoting lecture slides .NET Security lecture slides §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 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