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    Chapter 1
 
       Characterization of distributed systems.
       Challenges in constructing distributed systems
       
    Chapter 2

       Architectural Models
       Design requirements for distributed architectures 2.2.5
       Fundamentals Models
       Agreement in Pepperland pg. 51
       Failure detection in Peperland pg. 54
       Pepperland agreements in the presence of failures pg. 54
       Lamport Clocks and distributed databases

    Chapter 3

       Networking and Internetworking
       Network Principles
         packet transmission
         data streaming
         switching schemes
         protocols
         protocol layers
         packet assembly
         ports
         addressing
         packet delivery datagrams and virtual circuits
         routing
         RIP algorithm 
         Routers, bridges, hubs, switches, tunneling
      Internet Protocols
         IP addressing
         IP protocol 
         ARP
         Routing on a local subnet
         Unregistered addresses and network address translation
         TCP and UDP
         Ethernets
         WiFi

     Chapter 4

         Synchronous and asynchronous communications
         TCP and UDP failure models
         UDP socket programming in Java
         TCP socket programming in Java
         Marshalling and unmarshalling using CORBA's CDR
         Java serialization
         XML elements and attributes
         XML namespaces
         XSDL schemas
         Remote object references
         Request reply protocol
         Request Reply Message structure
         RPC exchange protocols
         UDP implementation of the request reply protocol pg. 158
         TCP implementation of the request reply protocol pg. 160
         HTTP Request reply page 160

    Chapter 5

         Interfaces
         IDL's
         The distributed object model
         Figure 5.4 looks like an Enterprise Java Bean with the 
         circle providing services
         Design issues for RMI
         Invocation semantics
         Generic RMI implementation
         Events and notifications
         Java RMI case study
         Java RMI distributed white board

     Chapter 19 Web Services

          IDL expressed in WSDL
          Registries UDDI
          URI's, URL's, URN's
          Transports that use SOAP
          Synchronous and asynchronous SOAP
          Document style and RPC style SOAP
          The use of the SOAP header
          The use of the SOAP body
          WS-Addressing
          The WS ShapeList interface
          WSDL abstract part
          WSDL concrete part
          MEPS
          JAXR
          UDDI Data Structure
          The Grid and the Globus Toolkit


    Chapter 6 Operating System Support

          Functions of operating systems
          Network OS 
          Distributed OS
          OS Support for Distributed Systems
          Thread, memory, communication, and process management
          The role of the supervisor
          The worker pool architecture
          Threads and processes
          Factors affecting RMI/RPC performance
          Implementation of Invocation semantics

    Chapter 7 Security
 
          Policies and mechanisms
          Threat categories
          Attacks
          Assumptions and guidelines
          Cryptographic notation
          Symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption
          Four scenarios
          Digital certificates and X509 format
          Symmetric key signatures
          Needham-Schroeder Authentication
          Kerberos
          SSL or TLS
          SSL client and server authentication
     
     Chapter 9 Naming

          Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
          Naming Concepts
          Conventions, Bindings, Context, Directory service
          The javx.naming package

     EJB Slides
   
          Reasons for using EJB's
          Interposition
          Entity beans (CMP,BMP)
          Session Beans (stateful, stateless)
          Message driven beans
          Local, remote and home interfaces
          Naming concepts
          Bean deployment 
          JNDI
          JMS
          Web services and EJB's

     .Net Remoting Slides

          C# programming
          Type unification
          Single Call objects
          Singleton objects
          Client activated objects
 
     Chapter 20 CORBA

          CORBA services
          CORBA histroy and goals
          Corba IDL
          idl2java

     Transactions

          Local transactions using Java/JDBC
          Distributed transactions using two phase commit
   
     Related technologies

        Be able to discuss code associated with projects          
        Tomcat, servlets and JSP
        JNDI
        JDK6 JAX-WS, apt, wsimport
        Request, Session and application scope
        The Java keytool, keystore and truststore
        SSL socket programming
        Microsoft C# and .NET Remoting
        wsdl.exe
        MBR and MBV remoting
        IIS and Web Services