Lecture #11 - Asynchronous Systems

Web Resources:

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. Midterm Makeup Exam - due December 14th, 2007
   This is a take home make up examination. You are required to do two things:
   
   1. Review your exam solution, and, for each question, describe what was wrong with your answer, if anything. Please do not feedback my solutions.
   2. Complete the Makeup Examination, linked above.
   If you complete these two tasks nearly flawlessly, your midterm grade will be raised to an 85, but no higher. You may ask any question you wish about the examination. The TA and I will give clear answers about how to tackle the problem in question.

3. Helpers for Project #4

   Best Project 2's - Phil Pratt and Mohammad Khajah
   These two projects were easy to use and provided very good routing.

   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.

   Socket Message Framing using Threads and Queues (Lecture #5)
   Communication component receivers need to do this.

   Message-Passing Web Service
   Communicate using a blocking queue hosted by a Web Service.

   Configuring virtual directory for a web service - Vista
   Configuring virtual directory for a web service - Vista
   

   Remoting-based Message-Passing Systems Presentation
   Illustrates how to set up message-passing communication using .Net remoting.

   Peer-to-Peer Prototype
   Illustrates use of bilateral remoting with SingleCall activation to establish Peer-To-Peer communication.

   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.

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

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

   Safe Thread Synchronization, Jeffrey Richter
   

4. Project #5
   

5. Helpers for Project #5

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

   Project Center Use Cases
   

6. Software Structure Research - motivation for Pr #5
   

7. More "chalk talk" for Project #5

8. Software Architecture Taxonomy
   
9. Asynchronous Systems
   
10. Asynchronous Calls Demos - Local and Remote
    
11. Questions about Project #5 ?
12. Software Design
    
13. Interception Presentation