CSE5000 - Distributed object technology

Leader: Simon Cuce

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2008 (Evening)

Synopsis

Topics include multi-language interoperability through the use of IDL, object migration and duplication, synchronous and asynchronous method invocation, types of distributed software architectures, persistence and exception handling across program boundaries. Advantages and disadvantages of different distributed object systems. Example implementations may include OMGs Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and OLE.

Assessment

Practical work: 50%
Written work: 50%

Contact hours

4 x contact hrs/week

Prerequisites

CSE3400 or SFT3000 or equivalent

Prohibitions

SFT5000