Distributed Computing: Principles and Applications provides an introduction to the core concepts and principles of distributed programming techniques. It adopts a learn-by-doing approach in which presentations are reinforced by programming and laboratory exercises.
The book covers computing paradigms, protocols, and application program interfaces (APIs), including sockets, multicast, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Interface Definition Language (IDL), applets, servlets, Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Each chapter introduces a paradigm and/or protocol and then presents the use of an API that illustrates the concept. The presentation uses narrative, code examples, and diagrams for clear and concise explanations.
Chapter 1 Distributed Computing, An Introduction
Chapter 2 Interprocess Communications
Chapter 3 Distributed Computing Paradigms
Chapter 4 The Socket API
Chapter 5 The Client-server Paradigm
Chapter 6 Group Communication
Chapter 7 Distributed Objects
Chapter 8 Advanced RMI
Chapter 9 Internet Applications
Chapter 10 The Common Object Request Broker Architecture
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