Distributed programming with Java

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgment

Guide to This Book

Intended Audience

Author Online

About the Cover

Part I: Sockets Programming

Chapter 1: Introduction to Distributed Programming

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Overview of Internetworking

1.3 Introduction to Distributed Programming

1.4 Distributed Programming Techniques

1.5 Distributed Programming Support in Java

1.6 Network Mobility

1.7 Overview of Java Security

1.8 Summary

Chapter 2: Introduciton to Sockets Probramming

2.1 Interprocess Communication

2.2 What Are Sockets?

2.3 TCP/IP and UDP/IP Communications

2.4 Client/Server Communication

2.5 Sockets Programming in Java

2.6 Greetings Server Example

2.7 Resolving Internet Addresses

2.8 Summary

Chapter 3: Programming Clients and Servers

3.1 Programming Clients for Existing Services

3.2 Programming with Threads

3.3 Programming New Services and Clients

3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Sockets in Real-World Applications

4.1 Developing a Multithreaded HTTP Server

4.2 Security in HTTP

4.3 Proxy Servers

4.4 Database Access Via Sockets

4.5 JDBC Explained

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5: Advanced Sockets Programming

5.1 Object Serialization

5.2 Objects Over Sockets

5.3 Digitally Signed Messages

5.4 Summary

Chapter 6 Case Study: A Global Compute Engine

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Global Web-Based Computing

6.3 Why Not CGI?

6.4 the Client/Server Model

6.5 Security Issues

6.6 Implementation Details

6.7 Other Issues

6.8 Summary

Part II: RMI

Chapter 7: Overview of RMI

7.1 Introduction to RMI

7.2 What is RMI?

7.3 the Goals of RMI

7.4 the RMI System Architecture

7.5 How RMI Works

7.6 Distributed Garbage Collection

7.7 RMI and the OSI Reference Model

7.8 Security

7.9 Summary

Chapter 8: Getting Started with RMI

8.1 Anatomy of an RMI-Based Application

8.2 Working with the RMI Registry

8.3 RMI vs. Sockets

8.4 Summary

Chapter 9: Advanced RMI Programming

9.1 The City Information Server

9.2 Implementing Factories

9.3 Implementing Callbacks

9.4 Signing Objects Over RMI

9.5 Summary

Chapter 10: RMI Programming with Java 2

10.1 Creating a Custom Socket Type

10.2 Creating a Custom Rmisocketfactory

10.3 SSL Sockets

10.4 Remote Object Activation

10.5 Version Control

10.6 Summary

Part III: CORBA

Chapter 11: Overview of CORBA

11.1 Introduction to CORBA

11.2 CORBA Architecture

11.3 Client and Object Implementations

11.4 Object Services

11.5 New Features in CORBA 3.0

11.6 Summary

Chapter 12: Getting Started with CORBA

12.1 CORBA Implementations

12.2 Anatomy of a CORBA-Based Application

12.3 CORBA Vs. RMI

12.4 Summary

Chapter 13: CORBA IDL: The Interface Definition Language

13.1 IDL Definitions

13.2 IDL Interfaces

13.3 Module Declaration

13.4 Attribute Declaration

13.5 Type Declaration

13.6 Arrays

13.7 Typedef Declaration

13.8 Constant Declaration

13.9 Exception Declaration

13.10 Operations Declaration

13.11 Pre-Processing

13.12 Keywords

13.13 Summary

Chapter 14: IDL-to-Java Mapping

14.1 Names

14.2 Modules

14.3 Holder Classes

14.4 Constant Values

14.5 Basic Types

14.6 Constructed Types

14.7 Exceptions

14.8 Interfaces

14.9 Typedef Mapping

14.10 Summary

Chapter 15: Naming and Binding

15.1 A Banking Application

15.2 Naming Objects

15.3 Binding to Objects

15.4 Summary

Chapter 16: Registering and Activating Objects

16.1 The Basic Object Adapter

16.2 Object Activation Modes

16.3 Object References

16.4 Registering An Object

16.5 The Implementation Repository

16.6 Summary

Chapter 17: Inheritance and the Tie Mechanism

17.1 Interface Inheritance

17.2 The Tie Mechanism

17.3 Summary

Chapter 18: The Dynamic Invocation/Skeleton Interface

18.1 The Dynamic Invocation Interface

18.2 The Dynamic Skeleton Interface

18.3 The Interface Repository

18.4 Summary

Chapter 19: Caffeine

19.1 Overview of Caffeine

19.2 Using the Java2iiop Compiler

19.3 Anatomy of a Caffeine-Based Application

19.4 Data Type Mapping

19.5 Summary

Part IV: Mobile Agents and Voyager

Chapter 20: Overview of Mobile Software Agents

20.1 Introduction to Software Agents

20.2 Mobile Software Agents

20.3 A New Paradigm for Distributed Computing

20.4 Mobile Agent Applications

20.5 Security in Mobile Agents

20.6 Mobile Agent Implementations

20.7 Summary

Chapter 21: Getting Started with Voyager

21.1 Overview

21.2 Working with Voyager

21.3 Summary

Chapter 22: Programming Mobile Agents

22.1 Dynamic Aggregation

22.2 Mobility

22.3 Mobile Agents

22.4 Summary

Chapter 23: Advanced Voyager Programming

23.1 Security

23.2 Advanced Messaging

23.3 Publish/Subscribe

23.4 Activation

23.5 Timers

23.6 Summary

Chapter 24: Voyager and CORBA Integration

24.1 Programming with Voyager CORBA

24.2 Anatomy of a Voyager CORBA Application

24.3 Voyager CORBA Integration

24.4 Summary

Bibliography

Online References

Index