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Teaching Material (Lecture Notes)

• Introduction to Software Engineering
• Software Requirements
• Engineering Requirements (Final version with notes from 21/09)
• Introduction to Components
• Component-Based Software Engineering
• Real-Time Systems Design
• Introduction to Design Patterns
• The Facade and Adapter Design Patterns
• Objects, Encapsulation and the Strategy Pattern
• MidTerm Revision
• Decoupling Abstraction from Implementations - The Bridge Pattern
• Software Change
• Software Testing
• Legacy Systems
• Architectures, Frameworks and Patterns
• Abstract Factory
• Lab 01: Requirements Enginnering
• Homework 01
• Homework 01: Solution
• Lab 02: RealTime Systems
• Lab 03: The Singleton Design Pattern
• Lab 04: Design with Reuse
• Lab 05: Software Change
• Homework 02 (Submit by email to cstylianou@cs.ucy.ac.cy by 18/11/09)
• Lab 06: Cost Estimation
• Lab 07: Legacy Systems

A. Previous Notes for the Software Engineering part

A. Previous Notes for the Software Components part

Notes (in Greek) for the book "Component Software - Beyond Object-Oriented Programming" by Clemens Szyperski:
 

Introduction to Components:

• Introduction  

• Introductory Remarks

• Component-Based Software Engineering
• Developing Component Based Systems
• Component Assembly

Designing and Modeling Component Based Systems:

• Basic Principles of Architectures, Frameworks and Design Patterns

• Software Architectures-1 and Software Archutectures-2
• Design Patterns

Gluing Components Together: The Coordination Paradigm & Linda:

• The Future of Coordination

• Some Slides on Linda

• Linda and SUN: JavaSpaces
• A Short Tutorial on JavaSpaces
• A Presentation on JavaSpaces
• The SUN Technical Specification of JavaSpaces

The Coordination Language Manifold:

• The tutorial

• Setting the MANIFOLD environment
• Introductory Examples
• Introduction to IWIM model
• The Manifold Reference Guide

Middleware:

• Introduction to Middleware-1

• Introduction to Middleware-2

CORBA:

• Introduction to CORBA

• Overview of CORBA
• Introductory Description of CORBA
• Main Features of CORBA

Microsoft Technology (ActiveX, OLE, COM, DCOM, .NET):

• COM

• DCOM
• .NET

Enterprise Java Beans:

• Introduction to EJB

• EJB & RMI

JINI:

• The Jini World

• The Jini Environment
• The Jini Model
• The Jini Programming Model
• The Jini Lookup Service

Unix Notes:

• The use of Kernel

• Kernel programming 1
• Kernel programming 2
• More on Kernel KORN

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) Notes:

• An introduction to PVM

• A PVM Book Notes
    

Past Exam Papers:

• December 2000 (EPL603)

• June 2001 (EPL441)
   
  

C. Lab Material

IBM TSpaces

• Lab1: Introduction
• Lab2: Customizing tuples and fields
• Lab3: Transactions, Event Registration
  • Download TSpaces

Manifold

• Lab1: Setting the Environment, compiling/running programs 
• Lab2: Introduction, Basic Concepts, First Examples 
• Lab3: Primitive Operations, Streams, Events 
  • Download Manifold examples