Course details

Distributed Application Environment

PDIe Acad. year 2016/2017 Winter semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Common characteristics of distributed environments. Types of distributed environments. Design and model of distributed applications. Distributed operating and file systems. Distributed database systems. Technology JSP, J2EE, JavaBeans, EJB, RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, IIOP. Web services. Technology CORBA, COM, DCOM. Use of XML in distributed environments. Security in distributed applications.

Guarantor

Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS)

Language of instruction

English

Completion

Examination (written)

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 13 hrs projects

Assessment points

  • 65 pts final exam (written part)
  • 10 pts mid-term test (test part)
  • 25 pts projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The stundent will acquaint yourself with concepts and principles of distributed environments, with design and implementation of applications for distributed environments and security aspects in distributed environments.

Learning objectives

The aim is to understand principles and design of applications for distributed environment, obtain overview of modern distributed environments and ability of usage application interface for various programming environments.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Knowledge of programming the network applications in common programming languages like C/C++ or Java. Knowledge of Unix architecture and ability to create programs for Unix operating systems.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Common characteristics of distributed environments
  2. Types of distributed environments
  3. Communication in distributed environments
  4. Distributed operating and file systems
  5. Synchronization and transactions
  6. Consistency and replication
  7. Design and model of distributed applications
  8. RPC, XML-RPC, SOAP, IIOP
  9. CORBA, Real-time CORBA, COM, DCOM
  10. Architectures of Distributed Control Systems
  11. Time-Triggered Distributed Architecture
  12. Clusters, Security in distributed applications
  13. Programming languages for large distributed systems

Progress assessment

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Controlled instruction

Requirements specification and design of projects, two projects elaboration, mid-term exam.

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