J. Blustein

Network Computing

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Resources

These resources are to help you teach yourself. See also the materials which are for use in lectures.

Policies

• Plagiarism and Intellectual Honesty at Dal

General

• Kurose & Ross website
• Telecom Glossary 2000 (American National Standard T1.523-2001)
• RFC Repositories:
  • at IETF
  • at faqs.org
• A quick tour around TCP by F. Cela
• JavaSim simulation environment

Chapter 1: Introduction

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline by Robert H Zakon

Sockets in C

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets
• BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer

Distributed Systems and Middleware

• Java Serialization section (below)
• Java RMI section (below)
• CORBA section (below)
• DCOM,CORBA,Java-RMI - A Step by Step Comparison by Gopalan Suresh Raj

Java Serialization

• Sample Chapter by William Grosso from the book Java RMI published by O'Reilly & Assocs. in 2001

Java RMI

• Remote Method Invocation at sun.com
• RMI tutorial by Ann Wollrath and Jim Waldo at sun.com

CORBA[*]

• Kate Keahey's Brief Tutorial on CORBA: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/kksiazek/tuto.html
• OMG Pages
  • OMG Home Page
  • About the OMG: http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/gettingstartedindex.htm
  • CORBA Basics: http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm
  • IDL: http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/omg_idl.htm
  • ORB: http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/orb_basics.htm
• Other useful links
  • Chapter 9 on CORBA in Tanenbaum and van Steen is online for free
  • List of free online tutorials on CORBA: http://www.intelinfo.com/newly_researched_free_training/CORBA.html
  • Cetus links about CORBA (800 of them!): http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_corba.html
  • CORBA Services: http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/corbaservices.htm

Credits

[*]

The CORBA resources are from Dr. Ernst W. Grundke. Please give your comments about the list to Dr. Grundke.

http://web.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/course/CS/3171/Resources/README.shtml

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Thursday, 11-Sep-2003 17:12:36 ADT

CS 3171 Prof.:

J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>