Links of Interest

• Software Engineering Institute's page on Middleware
• Getting started with Java RMI
• SUN's Java RMI page
• Java programming including threads
• HTTP 1.0 overview
• Concurrency examples
• CORBA
  • FAQ page
  • OMG's CORBA website
  • CORBA overview
• SOAP and Web services
  • Programming Web Services
  • Soap toolkits

Papers

• Week 1: Waldo paper A Note on Distributed Computing
• Week 3: Birrell, Nelson paper Implementing Remote Procedure Calls
                Bershad paper: Lightweight Remote Procedure Call
• Week 5: Chord paper
• Week 6:
  • Lamport logical clock paper
  • Chandy, Lamport Distributed Snapshots paper
• Week 10:
  • Berners-Lee WWW paper from 1994
  • Week 11:
    • The Byzantine Generals Problem, Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease
    • Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with one Faulty Process