22723 - Distributed Systems L - A

Academic Year 2007/2008

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

• Foundations of distributed computational systems
• Server-side Technologies: HTTP, CGI, PHP. Java server-side: servlet, JSP, JSTL. ASP.NET
  
• Middleware and Infrastructure: from CORBA to JADE, .NET, Service Oriented Architectures, Web Services

Operating abilities

• Analysis, design, development and deployment of web-based distributed systems

Course contents

• Introduction to the course
• Introduction to distributed computational systems
• Elements of Internet & Web systems
• XML
• introduction
• foundations: XML documents, elements and tags, XML tree, correctness and well-formedness, attibutes, entities, ...
• DTD
• namespaces
• internationalisation: character set & encoding, multilingual documents
• XML & CSS
• DOM & SAX
• XML applications
  
• XHTML
• XML Schema
• XSL & XSLT
• other applicazions: examples and perspectives
  
• Server-side technologies
• HTTP
• CGI
• PHP
• Java server-side
• servlet
• JSP
• JSTL
• Java Server-side Interaction Model
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• the general framework
  
• Web Services (WS)
• WS Implementation: AXIS2 architecture and use
  
• .NET
• the framework
• ASP .NET
• Middleware, infrastructures, and distributed system engineering
  
• the evolution: from distributed objects to multiagent systems
  
• CORBA
• JADE
• AJAX: technologies and pattern

Teaching methods

• Lessons with slides
• Examples discussed and built by the teacher and by experts from the field

Assessment methods

• Multiple-choice test on theoretical issues
  
• Discussion of an individual/group project
  

Teaching tools

• Web site of the teacher
• Web page of the course with slides (PDF), other materials and useful links

Links to further information

http://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/Courses/SdLa0708

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Omicini