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CS 417 CS 417 course page News About the course Prerequisites Things you need Policy Syllabus Documents Homework Exam info Check your grades		Previous Lecture Next Lecture Lecture 4: Remote Procedure Calls Lecture notes: Remote Procedure Calls Lecture slides RPC case studies slides Recitation notes: Programming with Sun RPC Programming with RMI Sample programs: rpcdemo.tar - demo of Sun's RPC rmidemo.tar - demo of Java RMI Supplemental notes: Microsoft .Net, by Dr. Pizza, arstechnica.com http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/n/net/net-5.html. ONC (SUN) RPC documentation Understanding the Distributed Object Component (DCOM) Architecture, (c) 2001 Microsoft Corporation Transarc DCE Introduction to the OSF Distributed Computing Environment , (c)1990-1996 Transarc, IBM Introduction to CORBA, Short Course, java.sun.com Getting Started with RMI , Sun Microsystems. Writing a simple applet using jdk 1.2 Trail: RMI , an RMI tutorial for JDK 1.3 from Sun Microsystems Java RMI Tutorial, Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University Microsoft Systems Journal: Understanding Interface Definition Language Web Services: Building Reusable Web Components with SOAP and ASP .NET, David S. Platt, Microsoft MSDN Understanding Microsoft .NET , David Platt, Byte,com December 2000: Part 1, part 2, part 3 Feature Article: Microsoft .NET Framework Objects, Thunderclap, the Newsletter of Rolling Thunder Computing. W3Schools.comSome basic tutorials on XML, SOAP, and .NET: short but not very through (.NET is particularly poor). Buzzwords: remote procedure call, language level construct, operating system level construct, stub functions, passing parameters, marshaling, canonical data encoding, implict typing, explicit typing, semantics of remote procedure calls, idempotent, non-idempotent Sun RPC: XDR (eXternal Data Representation), rpcgen, RPC compiler, interface definition language, portmapper Sun RPC: DCE RPC, uuidgen, cell, cell directory server, Microsoft DCOM: COM, surrogate process, monikers, ORPC, MIDL, interface pointer, reference counting, pinging CORBA: object request broker, dynamic invocation, IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol), Java RMI: Remote Method Invocation, remote interfaces, remote class, serializable class, rmic, rmiregistry XNL-based RPCs: XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, .NET, Common Language Runtime (CLR), Intermediate Language (IL)
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