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CS518: Distributed Software Systems Development
Spring 2010

CS518 is a graduate course teaching principles of developing distributed systems. We cover approaches that use distributed object and component middleware, aspect-oriented programming, and service-oriented architectures. CS518 is a programming-intensive course and requires a term paper.

Prerequisites: Operating Systems (CS451 or equivalent course) and Object-Oriented Design (CS414 or equivalent course), or written consent of instructor

Topics

1. Characterization of distributed systems
   • Introduction and examples of distributed systems
   • System models: architectural models and fundamental models
2. Distributed objects and remote method invocation
   • Middleware and infrastructure
   • Remote method calls
   • External data representation and marshalling
   • Remote events and notifications
   • Detailed Java RMI case study
   • Articles on CORBA and Jini
3. Aspect-oriented software development
   • Introduction to crosscutting concerns and aspects
   • Introduction to the AspectJ programming language
4. Design patterns for distributed applications
5. Introduction to component-based development
   • Using UML for component-based design and assignment
   • Articles on JavaBeans, Enterprise Java Beans, and CORBA
6. Introduction to service-oriented architectures
   • Characteristics of SOAs
   • Introduction to web services
7. Other topics
   • OSGi
   • Spring framework
   • Adaptive middleware