Winter
2006/07

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

Instructor(s): Prof. Jens-Peter Redlich, Dipl-Inf. Zubow, Dipl-Inf. Kurth
 

Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group

• Half-Course, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium.
• 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).
• Information about the lab in our Wiki
• Worksheets:  [lab1] [lab2] [lab3] [lab4] [lab5] [lab6]

	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 [draft] Interoperability lecture slides [draft] Common Object Services lecture slides [draft] CORBA Component Model  (optional) informational slides - not presented in class [pdf] 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)

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] Client View lecture slides from last year (covers EJB 2.1) [pdf] Persistence Basic Persistence [pdf] O/R Mapping [pdf] Entity Relationships [pdf] Entity Inheritance [pdf] Query Language [pdf] In EJB 2.1 (last year slides [pdf], [pdf]) Session Beans 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