Course news appears below in reverse chronological order.

Week 11: XML

• Study the class notes and code

Week 10: CORBA

• Study the class notes and code
• Read for general information chapter 25, skip 25.6.3, skim 25.7.

Week 9: More RMI

• Study the class notes
• Read for general information chapter 24, skim 24.5.
• Research and development projects.
• Assignment 7.

Week 8: Spring break

Week 7: Remote method invocation

• Study the class notes and code
• Read for detail chapter 23, skim 23.3.1-4, 23.6-8, skip 23.10, skim 23.11.1, skip 23.12-18.
• Assignment 6

Week 6: UDP, multicasting, and Object-oriented design

• Study the class notes and code .
• Read for general information chapters 20 and 22, skim 22.3-8. Error: In the run method on page 489, the first line of the while body should be incoming.setLength(65508).
• Assignment 5

Week 5: Introduction to networking, UDP, and multicasting

• Read for general information chapter 1, skip 1.2.2-5. Typo: the word 'synchronous' is mangled on the third from last line of page 9.
• Study the class notes and code
• Assignment 4

Week 4: Deadlock, box layout, and serialization.

• Read for general information chapter 7, skip 7.2-3, 7.6.2-3 and skim chapters 6 and 8-12.
• Read for detail chapter 13, skip 13.2.2 except for writeObject, 13.2.3, 13.3.2 except for readObject, 13.3.3-4, skim 13.4, skip 13.5.1-2, 13.6.1-2, 13.7, 13.8.3-6, 13.9, 13.10.1-2. Read for general information chapter 18.
• Study the class notes and code

• Assignment 3

Week 3: Threads and synchronization problems

• Read for detail chapter 4, skip 4.3.4, 4.5, 4.10, and chapter 16.3-5, skip 16.3.2-3.
• If you wish to explore threads and concurrency problems further, ThreadMentor appears to be a valauble resource.
• Study the class notes and code
• Assignment 2

Week 2: Streams and simple network server.

• Study the class notes and code

Read for detail chapter 5, skip 5.5.3. Read for general information chapter 14, skip 14.1-2, skip 14.3.1 except Socket (String, int), skip 14.3.2 starting with getInetAddress, skim 14.3.4, skip 14.3.6-7, 14.5. Read for detail chapter 16, skip 16.1.2 from getInetAddress, 16.1.5, and 16.3-5.

• Assignment 1
• At least a day before your first lab, apply for a CFS account if you do not already have one. You should also have a floppy disk or two with you to every lab and other time you are doing program development.
• Read for detail chapter 3. 
• Get familiar with the course web and carefully read the general info, policies, and resources pages, and system notes 1, 2, 4.2, and 4.3.

Study the class notes and code

Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture link: This is more than you need for this course, but you may find it helpful.

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