CSC7230: Objectbased Distributed Systems

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CSC7230 Object-based Distributed Systems

• Dr. Michael R. Lyu
• Computer Science Engineering Department
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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How to reach me?
Engineering Building, Room 927
2609 8429
lyu_at_cse.cuhk.edu.hk
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Organization of the Course

• Lectures Tue. 630pm 930pm
• Web http//www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/
• lyu/csc7230
• Homework
• Very Late Mid-Term and Final Exams
• Tutors Ms. Pat Chan and Ms. Edith Ngai

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Nature of the Course

• This is a practical lecture with hands-on
  experience!
• Involves CORBA project and C/Java program demo.

Application Objects
CORBAfacilities
Object Request Broker
CORBAservices
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What You Will Learn

• Problems that occur during construction of
  distributed systems.
• Principles and techniques to solve them.
• Components of an infrastructure for distributed
  systems (OMG/CORBA).
• Practical experience with an OMG/CORBA
  implementation.

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Required Textbook

• Distributed Systems Concepts and Design, George
  Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, and Tim Kindberg,
  Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition, 2001

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Suggested References

• Wolfgang Emmerich Engineering Distributed
  Objects. Wiley. 2000.
• Liu Distributed Computing, Principles and
  Applications. Addison-Wesley. 2004.
• Tanenbaum van Steen Distributed Systems.
  Prentice-Hall. 2002.
• Sloman and Kramer Distributed Systems and
  Computer Networks. Prentice Hall. 1987.
• Baker CORBA Distributed Objects. Addison-Wesley.
  1997.
• Mowbray and Zahavi The Essential CORBA. Wiley.
  1995.

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Coursework

• Homework (20)
• 3 assignments.
• Discussions allowed but no plagiarism.
• Very Late Mid-Term Exam (30)
• November 18, 2003 (Tue. in class)
• Final Exam (50)
• Either December 9 (Tue.) or December 13 (Sat.)
  TBD

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Tentative Course Outline

• 1 Distributed Systems Characteristics and Design
  Issues
• 2 Distributed Software Engineering by CORBA
• 3 Communication
• 4 RPCs vs. CORBA
• 5 CORBA/DCOM/RMI/Web Services
• 6 Building Distributed Systems with CORBA
• CORBA Generosity and Interoperability
• Security
• Naming and Trading
• Concurrent Processes and Threads
• Transactions
• Reliability