Course details

Distributed Application Environment

PDI Acad. year 2009/2010 Winter semester 5 credits

Current academic year

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.

Guarantor

Zendulka Jaroslav, doc. Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 4 hrs pc labs
  • 9 hrs projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

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

There are no prerequisites

Fundamental literature

  • Kshemkalyani, Singhal: Distributed Computing, Cambridge Press, 2008.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Common characteristics of distributed environments
  2. Types of distributed environments
  3. Design and  model of distributed applications
  4. Consistency and replication
  5. Distributed operating and file systems
  6. Distributed database systems
  7. JSP, J2EE, JavaBeans, EJB
  8. RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, IIOP
  9. Web services
  10. CORBA, Real-time CORBA
  11. COM, DCOM
  12. XML usage in distributed environments
  13. Security in distributed applications
  14. 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.

Course inclusion in study plans

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