CS 441 Fall 2005

Distributed Object Programming using Middleware

General Information:

• Meet time and location: 11:00 - 12:15 Tuesday and Thursday, A5 Lecture Center
• Text book: Distributed Computing, Principles and Applications, M.L. Liu, Pearson Addison Wesley Publ., ISBN 0-201-79644-9
• Instructor: Patrick Troy, 919 SEO, (312) 996-8521, troy at uic.edu or troy at cs.uic.edu
• Office hour: 11:30 - 1:00 Wednesday and Friday or by appointment
• TA: Yan Luo, 1336 SEO, (312)355-0635, yluo at cs.uic.edu
• TA office hour: 2:00 - 3:00 Tuesday and Thursday
• Syllabus for this course is available here
• Last year webpages are available here

Grading:

• Homework assignments: Approx. 5, 45%
• Midterm 1: Sept. 22, 2005, 15%
• Midterm 2: Oct. 25, 2005, 15%
• Final exam: Dec. 8, 2005, @ 10:30 am (in LC-A5), 25%

Homework Assignments

• MP 1: Tic Tac Toe via Sockets
• MP 2: Match Maker
• MP 3: RMI Chat
• MP 4: Windchill via EJB
• EJB Deployment Report

Useful Links

• Some EJB Examples
• An EJB Site Developed by a UIC Master's Student
• Sun's J2EE Tutorial
• An RMI Example
• Socket Examples
• Alphabetical Listing of Java Library Classes
• EJB Examples from Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications, Sun Microsystems Press Series

Catalog 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:

• Sockets and socket programming
• RMI programming
• Middleware

Letter Grades:

• 100% - 90.0% Grade A
• 89.9% - 80.0% Grade B
• 79.9% - 70.0% Grade C
• 69.9% - 60.0% Grade D
• 59.9% - 0% Grade E

Other 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. Note that if you register late you are responsible for any material and assignments missed.
• 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. Students are advised that it is a violation to copy, or allow another to copy, all or part of an exam or program.
• 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 "Grading" section.
• When sending email, students are advised to start the subject of the email message with the course name (CS 441). This will help identify valid email from spam.