Engineering distributed objects

"The pay-offs for creating distributed applications are in achieving portability, scalability and fault-tolerance. In order to simplify building software that performs robustly regardless of platform or network infrastructure, a new strata of 'middleware' has been created. This book provides a conceptual framework within which to describe object-oriented middleware for the integration of distributed objects." "This is a book for developers who are new to programming in distributed environments. It also supports a variety of courses where the central theme is object-oriented development with middleware technologies."--Jacket

Engineering Distributed Objects -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Concepts -- 1 Distributed Systems -- 1.1 What Is a Distributed System? -- 1.1.1 Ingredients of a Distributed System -- 1.1.2 Centralized versus Distributed Systems -- 1.2 Examples of Distributed Systems -- 1.2.1 Video-on-Demand -- 1.2.2 Aircraft Configuration Management -- 1.2.3 IT Infrastructure of a Bank -- 1.2.4 Distributed Soccer League Management -- 1.3 Distributed System Requirements -- 1.3.1 Scalability -- 1.3.2 Openness -- 1.3.3 Heterogeneity -- 1.3.4 Resource Access and Sharing.

1.3.5 Fault-Tolerance -- 1.4 Transparency in Distributed Systems -- 1.4.1 Access Transparency -- 1.4.2 Location Transparency -- 1.4.3 Migration Transparency -- 1.4.4 Replication Transparency -- 1.4.5 Concurrency Transparency -- 1.4.6 Scalability Transparency -- 1.4.7 Performance Transparency -- 1.4.8 Failure Transparency -- Key Points -- Self Assessment -- Further Reading -- 2 Designing Distributed Objects -- 2.1 Evolution of Object Technology -- 2.2 UML Representations for Distributed Object Design -- 2.2.1 Use Case Diagrams -- 2.2.2 Sequence Diagrams -- 2.2.3 Class Diagrams.

2.2.4 Object Diagrams -- 2.2.5 Stat…