Textbooks

COM and CORBA Side by Side Architectures, Strategies, and Implementations, Jason Pritchard, Addison Wesley Publ., ISBN 0-201-37945-7

Course Description

Design and implementation of distributed object programs using middleware software standards; interface definition languages and programming language mappings; static and dynamic object communication mechanisms.

Topics:

1. Sockets and Socket Programming
2. RMI Programming
3. Distributed Object Programming

Grading

Homework Assignments (Approx. 5) 
45% Midterm Oct. 19, 2004 25% 
Final Dec. 7, 2004 (tba) 30%

 Note:Final letter grades will be assigned based on the total number of point earned during the semester. The letter grades will be assigned on a curve that will be no higher than those shown above in the box.

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Course Policies

• Assignments must be turned during class on the day they are due. Late assignments will not be accepted. If you have any questions regarding how any assignment or test is graded and you think that you deserve more points than you received, you must see the instructor about this within one week of the time the assignment is first returned to the class. No claims, justifiable or not, will be considered after this dead line.
• Attendance at class is up to the discretion of each student; however, each student is responsible for all information (notes, hand-outs, announcements, etc.) covered during class. You should ask fellow classmates for missed information, not the instructor or the TA.
• No incompletes will be given for poor performance in the course. No "extra" work is allowed to make up for poor performance. Any student caught cheating will receive an E in the course, and face possible dismissal from the University.

Assignments

• MP 1 - A Socket Database, Due: 9/21/2004
• MP 2 - RMI Databases, Due: 10/14/2004
• MP 3 - .NET, Due: 11/XX/2004

Assignment grading information

• MP1 grading information
• MP2 grading information
  

Resources:

• Syllabus
• UIC Blackboard 
• Special contribution from Jason :a student website for this course. It is a   platform for students to share experience and ideas about this course.
   The CS 441 Swiki
• Alphabetical Listing of Java Library Classes
• .NET Examples
• SOAP Examples
• Some thread examples
• Some socket examples
• An RMI example
• Prof. Drake's CS 441 Notes
• Sun's Java RMI Documentation Page
• A useful RMI FAQ when sometimes you have trouble running your RMI program and you yourself have no hints about it.
• Java socket programming

            1  All About Sockets (From Sun Java site)
            2  Sockets programming in Java: A tutorial