Introduction

This presentation will described main aspects of a distributed system, identifying its the main drivers, goals and pitfalls. After reviewing main 

Presentation Contents 

26 min.

• Intro Distributed Systems (5 mins)
  • Why is worth the effort? Main Drivers
  • Goals and Pitfalls
  • Communication:  RPC vs Message-oriented
• CORBA: A Distributed Object-Based System 5 min
  • Object Orientation
  • Location Transparency
  • Programming Language Neutral
• Basic Concept: 10 min
  • Interface Definition Language and IDL Compilers
  • Language Mappings
  • Stubs and Skeleton
  • Object References
  • Object Adapter
  • Object request Broker (ORB)
• ORB and examples   5 min
  • ACE TAO - C++ ORB  
  • Jacorb - A java ORB
  • omniORB - a python ORB
• Ok, I understood CORBA. Why do we need ACS?  1 min