Lecture #12 - Asynchronous Systems

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Office Hours: Instructor & TAs

Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.

2. Helpers for Project #4:

   DLL Loading - implicit and explicit (Lecture #7)
   How the Executives attach to the parts they manage.

   Message Framing Socket Receiver (Lecture #5)
   Communication component receivers need to do this.

   Base64Encoding (Lecture #5)
   Any component that wants to send, possibly binary, files needs to do this.

   .Net Process Creation (Lecture #6)
   Shows how to wrap a legacy EXE.

   concurrent file access
   Uses exceptions thrown when files can't be opened to try later.

   Safe Thread Synchronization, Jeffrey Richter
   

3. another interesting way of implementing message passing:

   ADAM-Wrapper-Prototype, updated with Comm component
   All message handlers, e.g., virtually all parts, inherit from AWrapper, except for UIs that already inherit implementation from Form. UIs need to create a message handler that does inherit from AWrapper.

4. Asynchronous Systems
   
5. Asynchronous Calls Demos - Local and Remote
   
6. Peer-to-Peer Prototype
   Illustrates use of bilateral remoting with SingleCall activation to establish Peer-To-Peer communication.
7. Software Architecture Taxonomy
   
8. Software Design
   
9. Software Structure Research - motivation for Pr #5
   
10. Project #5
    

11. "chalk talk" for Project #5

12. Helpers for Project #5

    Riddhiman Ghosh - Best Final Reports
    Saket Satta - Best Final Reports
    

    InstrSolMTF06-1.doc
    InstrSolMTF06-2.doc
    InstrSolMTF06-3.doc
    InstrSolMTF06-4.doc
    

    Project Center Use Cases
    

13. Message-Passing Systems Presentation
    
14. Questions about Project #5 ?
15. Interception Presentation
    
16. Lecture #12 folder contains a page of links to presentations and code discussed in this class. The Lecture folders will occasionally hold physical files of interest as well. Usually, however, all the materials of interest to the class are in the presentations and code folders. The contents of these folders will grow as you progress through the course.