Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

Roger Impey

1. Introduction to telecommunications

• OSI
• protocols
• IP, TCP , UDP, HTTP

2. Introduction to open distributed computing

• RPC
• CORBA
• DCE
• DCOM
• JavaRMI
• ODP
• DPE (Intelligent Networks - TINA)
• Componentware

3. A short review of Java language and core APIs

4. Java facilities for networking

• sockets
• client/server
• URL
• RMI

5. CORBA and Java

• JavaIDL
• CGI/HTTP

6. Java RMI

7. JavaBeans

• Enterprise JavaBeans

8. Jini Connection Technology

9. Mobile code

• virtual machine/bytecodes
• remote execution
• taxonomy: applets, servlets.

10. Java facilities for mobile code

• Java Virtual Machine
• Cloass loaders
• Class composition
• Bytecode basics

11. Security issues

• Introduction to security
• Java's security architecture
• Java security and the class loader architecture
• network security
• agent security

12. Applications of distributed computing

• applets (thin clients; PESC - process everywhere store centrally)
• servlets
• plug-and-play networks