Home Page for
Special Interest Group (Seminar) on
Object Technologies
1998-99 Academic Year

Meeting Time

Topics

JAVA and Related Technologies

A quick overview (very incomplete)

A second overview

The Java Class Libraries/JDK 1.2

Java Beans
      Beans Development Kit local documentation page . On the EECIS machines, the BDK is found in the directory /usr/local/java/BDK. Note that this is an early development version from SUN.
Java Security
Java Cryptography
Java Graphics and the 2-D and 3-D APIs
For enhanced GUI components in the new Java Foundation Classes (also called Swing), on the EECIS machines, see the directory /usr/local/java/jfc/

JAVA Development Tools

SUN Java Workshop
On the EE/CIS machines the path for Java Workshop is /usr/local/java/Java-WorkShop/JWS/sparc-S2/bin/jws
IBM's Visual Age


Middleware OO Application Technologies like the WWW, CORBA, and OO Databases

A definition of middleware.

WWW

CORBA

A one page overview.

• The CORBA standard has been developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), a consortium of more than 700 object vendors and end users. They maintain a web-site with extensive information about CORBA.

• OMG has a nice and extensive Introduction to CORBA.

Certain JAVA APIs

• Java RMI

• Java Management API . On the EECIS machines a Developer's Release 0.5 can be found in the directory /usr/local/java/JMAPI

• Java Database Programming and JDBC

OO Analysis and Design

OO Design Patterns

Schedule of Speakers

Friday, Sept 25, Richard Dettinger from IBM Rochester, Minn to talk about IBM's use of the Java JDBC. Time 10:10AM in 102A Smith

Reference: P. A. Bernstein & E. Newcomer, Principles of Transaction Processing, Morgan Kaufmann Publ. (1997). ISBN 1-55860-415-4

An article in EE Times partially based on this seminar.

A gallery of pictures from the Dettinger presentation .

Friday, Oct 9, Bob Caviness, Java Overview (Postponed until Oct 16)

Friday, Oct 16, Mikko Laukkanen, Design Patterns (To be rescheduled)

Friday, Oct 23, Sakir Yucel, CORBA and Java's RMI (with comparisons to Microsoft's COM/DCOM infrastructure)

Friday, Oct 30, No meeting

Friday, Nov 6, Saveen Pakala on the work that he did at SUN this summer.

Friday, Nov 13, Dong Zhu, CORBA Mobile Agent Facility

In this talk I will discuss the hot topic of mobile agent. First, I will give a few application examples as motivations for the mobile agent computing paradigm. Then I will introduce the common concepts related to mobile agent. Last, I will present CORBA's IDL definition of its Mobile Agent Facility to make the concept concrete.

At the beginning of the talk there will be a brief introduction on the basics of CORBA. This talk is based mainly on the OMG Mobile Agent Facility document which can be retrieved from ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/1995/95-11-03.pdf.

Friday, Nov 20, Yuan Zong, Java Security

Friday, Dec 4, Sakir Yucel, JAVA Beans, ActiveX, and TINA-C in network management systems

Friday, Dec 11, Sohaib Kidwai, Java Multimedia

SPRING SEMESTER

Friday, Feb 26, Hai Qu, Distributed Security Management over CORBA

Expectations of Participants

To make suggestions for topics to be covered by the seminar

To suggest outside speakers for the seminar

To make one or more presentations and/or demos on topics relevant to the seminar.

Bibliography

General
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
This more general collection has many references to material related to this seminar as well as search engines for finding them.

Java

Bibliography on the Java Programming Language.
This a part of the more general collection of CS bibliographies cited above. It is well-supported and has good search capabilities.

A nice list of links to Java material including links to Sun's online documentation, Sun's Java development tools, products and tools, books, tutorials, FAQs, news, and other Java miscellaneous links.

A bibiliography of earlier popular press articles about Java.

T. B. Downing, Java RMI Remote Method Invocation, IDG Books (1998). ISBN 0-7645-8043-4

Middleware Technologies

OO Analysis and Design

Some OTers (Object Techies)

From left to right: Sakir Yucel, Mikko Laukkanen, Yuan Zong, Prof. Saydam, Richard Dettinger (Guest speaker from IBM), Sohaib Kidwai, Dong Zhu, Jukka Eskelinen, Prof. Caviness, and Mandar Shinde. Other OTers not pictured: Foster McGeary and Joel Schnall.

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