Course details
Distributed Application Environment
PDIe Acad. year 2010/2011 Winter semester 5 credits
Common characteristics of distributed environments. Types of distributed environments. Design and model of distributed applications. Distributed operating and file systems. Distributed database systems. Technology JSP, J2EE, JavaBeans, EJB, RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, IIOP. Web services. Technology CORBA, COM, DCOM. Use of XML in distributed environments. Security in distributed applications.
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Time span
- 39 hrs lectures
- 13 hrs projects
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
The stundent will acquaint yourself with concepts and principles of distributed environments, with design and implementation of applications for distributed environments and security aspects in distributed environments.
Learning objectives
The aim is to understand principles and design of applications for distributed environment, obtain overview of modern distributed environments and ability of usage application interface for various programming environments.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge of programming the network applications in common programming languages like C/C++ or Java. Knowledge of Unix architecture and ability to create programs for Unix operating systems.
Syllabus of lectures
- Common characteristics of distributed environments
- Types of distributed environments
- Design and model of distributed applications
- Consistency and replication
- Distributed operating and file systems
- Distributed database systems
- JSP, J2EE, JavaBeans, EJB
- RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, IIOP
- Web services
- CORBA, Real-time CORBA
- COM, DCOM
- XML usage in distributed environments
- Security in distributed applications
- Building clusters
- Architectures of Distributed Control Systems
- Time-Triggered Distributed Architecture
- Real-Time Communication Principles
- Contract-based resource reservation and scheduling
Progress assessment
Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.
Controlled instruction
Requirements specification and design of projects, two projects elaboration, mid-term exam.