Review for Final 95-702                             

The final exam is comprehensive but weighted more heavily toward
the second half of the semester.

The final is closed book closed notes.
No example exams will be provided.

Topics
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TCP/IP
UDP/IP
Servlets, JSP's
HTTP Get and Post
Web Applications and Web Containers
Singleton design pattern
Characterization of distributed systems
Challenges in constructing distributed systems
Internet and intranets
Middleware
Open systems
Scalability
Concurrency
Failure handling
Types of transparency 
Architectural models 
Fundamental Models (interaction, failure, security)
Hardware and software layers
Time and Lamport clocks
Messaging and JMS
Open Systems Interconnection (ISO Model) 
Be able to list a technology at each protocol layer
IP, ARP, and DHCP
XML Namespaces
SOAP, UDDI, WSDL
JDK 6.0 JAX-WS
Java Sockets (Both UDP and TCP) 
Remote Object Reference
Traditional vs. SOAP based HTTP request and reply messages
Java RMI and the rmiregistry
Java RMI and the proxy design pattern
Java RMI and the distributed whiteboard
Network OS
Distributed OS
OS Core functionality
Threads
Mutual Exclusion
Synchronization
Semaphore P and V
Producer and Consumer Problem and semaphore
Locks and concurrent transactions
Architecture of Distributed Event Notifications
Dealing Room System
EJB Container services
EJB object Types and purpose of each
Role of JNDI
Naming conventions
Naming System and Naming Contexts
Binding
Directory service
DNS
Message Driven Beans and JMS
Be able to name at least three J2EE implementations
Local Database transactions
JDBC
Distributed transactions
Crytographic protocols 
Cryptographic Digest
Symmetric key cryptography
Asymmetric key cryptography
Needham Schroeder
SSL
Kerberos
XML Encryption
XML Signature
Web Services Security