University of Cyprus Dept. of Computer Science

EPL 603: Topics in Software Engineering   Resources: Links to Related Documents and Other Interesting Stuff

Fall 2009

Introduction to Components: Definitions, Interfaces, Object-Oriented Issues (Polymorphism, Inheritance):

• The State of Affairs in Component Based Software Engineering
• Why Need Components (and the like)
• Need for Component Based Software. Components and Interfaces
• Components and Objects
• Components and Polymorphism
• Components and Inheritance
• Another Lecture on Components and Inheritance
• The Component Technology Web Site

Gluing Components Together: The Coordination Paradigm:

• The Interdisciplinary Study of Coordination
• The Future of Coordination
• Linda and SUN: JavaSpaces
• A Short Tutorial on JavaSpaces
• A Presentation on JavaSpaces
• The SUN Technical Specification of JavaSpaces
• Linda and IBM: TSpaces
• The Manifold Site

Patterns, Frameworks and Architectures:

• Architectures and Patterns: Part1 and Part2
• OpenDoc
• Short Introduction to Patterns
• A Longer Introduction to Patterns
• Patterns and Frameworks
• Developing Patterns
• A Lot of Stuff on Patterns
• A Lot of Stuff on Frameworks

The OMG Way: CORBA and OMA:

• Short Introduction to CORBA
• CORBA and Distributed Computing
• Slides on CORBA
• Another Short Exposition to CORBA but also COM/DCOM (see below)
• Orbix
• The OMG Site

The Microsoft Way: COM, DCOM, OLE and ActiveX:

• A Lecture on COM
• Introduction to COM, DCOM and ActiveX
• Slides on the Microsoft Way
• The Microsoft Site

The Sun Way: Java and JavaBeans - Also Jini:

• Java and RMI
• Official RMI Page
• Introductory Lecture on JavaBeans
• Another Lecture on JavaBeans
• Yet Another Lecture on JavaBeans
• JavaBeans and Component Reusability
• An Introduction to Jini
• An On-Line Course on Jini
• The Jini Site at SUN
• The Jini Community
• Some Slides on JavaSpaces and Jini

Other Approaches to Component Development:

• Voyager and its CORBA-based Implementation

Software Architectures:

• A lot of Stuff on Software Architectures

University of Cyprus

Department of Computer Science