Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Characterization of distributed systems
  • Examples (historical overview)
  • Resource sharing
  • Openness
  • Concurrency
  • Scalability
  • Non-issue: location transparency
  • Redundancy
  • Modularity
  • Integration
• Design goals of distributed systems
  • Technical design issues
  • User requirements
• JAVA
• Networking
  • Internet address classes
  • IP Addressing
  • JAVA unicast sockets
  • JAVA multicast sockets
• Internet
  • Firewalls
  • Proxy Servers
  • The World Wide Web
  • Applets
  • Servets
• JAVA RMI
• CORBA
  • CORBA introduction
  • OMG's Object Management Architecture (OMA)
  • The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
  • Language Mappings
  • Static object invocation with OMG IDL
  • Getting Started: The "Hello World" Application
  • The Portable Object Adapter (POA)
  • Locating Objects
• COM/DCOM
• JINI
  • JINI components
  • Service Registration
  • Client Lookup
  • Proxies
  • Lookup service
  • A Simple Example
• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
  • EJB Introduction
  • Enterprise JavaBeans Overview
  • Bean development
• Bibliography