Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

• Knowledge of network protocols up to the transport layer
• Experiences with Object-oriented programming
• Good working knowledge in Java
• Basic knowledge in database systems
• Experience in the development of Web applications
• Knowledge of XML & JSON

This course deals with the concepts and technologies of heterogeneous applications that are also distributed across company boundaries:

• Middleware
• Client-Server systems with alternatives
• forms of message exchange
• distributed object-method calls
• directory services
• messaging
• Jakarta EE and related services
• web services
• microservices
• Health Checks & Failover

As part of the project, students work in teams to develop a complex distributed system with diverse interfaces using a combination of the technologies they have learned.

At the end of the course the student is expected to

• Students know the characteristics of distributed systems, different paradigms of distributed information processing, and efficient communication protocols.
• Students have an understanding of key middleware concepts, in particular dynamic binding, distributed object orientation, distribution transparency, messaging, blocking/non-blocking procedure calls
• Students have an overview of relevant distributed systems architectures.
• Students have experience with distributed objects in Java as well as specific middleware such as JMS, EJB and Web Services and know the specifics of asynchronous communication technologies.
• Students have an insight into the functionality and programming of directory services, e.g. LDAP.
• Students are able to implement enterprise-wide applications in practice using Java, Jakarta EE, Web Services/Microservices as well as middleware for cross-language distributed systems and are able to extend the implemented back-end systems with suitable clients, e.g. Web front-ends.
• Students have basic knowledge of scalability, reliability, fault tolerance and security in distributed systems.

Lecture, laboratory exercise, project in a team with requirements workshops and customer presentations, project work with technical coaching and coaching on project management; feedback on the implementations in the project.

Assessment of project work developed within a team (50%), final exam (25%), exercises (25%).

For a positive grade, a minimum of 50% of the possible points must be achieved in each part of the examination.

Not applicable

Abernethy, Randy (2019): Programmer’s guide to Apache Thrift. Shelter Island: Manning Publications.

Bueno, A. S., & Porter, J. (2020). Quarkus Cookbook. O‘Reilly Media.

Coulouris, George F. u.a. (2012): Distributed systems: concepts and design. 5th ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley.

Goncalves, Antonio (2013): Beginning Java EE 7.

Goncalves, Antonio (2020): Practising Quarkus.

Goncalves, Antonio (2020): Understanding Quarkus.

Horstmann, Cay S.; Cornell, Gary (2013): Core Java. Ninth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Ihns, Oliver u.a. (2011): EJB 3.1 professionell Grundlagen- und Expertenwissen zu Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 – inkl. JPA 2.0. Heidelberg: dpunkt-Verl.

Kalin, Martin (2013): Java Web services: up and running.

Marcus Schießer; Martin Schmollinger (2014): Workshop Java EE 7: Ein praktischer Einstieg in die Java Enterprise Edition mit dem Web Profile. 2. Aufl. Dpunkt.verlag GmbH.

Röpstorff, Sven.; Wiechmann, Robert. (2012): Scrum in der Praxis: Erfahrungen, Problemfelder und Erfolgsfaktoren. Heidelberg, Neckar: dpunkt.

Rubinger, Andrew Lee.; Monson-Haefel, Richard.; Burke, Bill. (2010): Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1. Beijing; Farnham; Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.

Sriganesh, Rima Patel; Brose, Gerald; Silverman, Micah (2006): Mastering enterprise JavaBeans 3.0. Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Pub.

Tanenbaum, Andrew S.; Stehen, Maarten van. (2008): Verteilte Systeme: Prinzipien und Paradigmen. München [u.a.]: Pearson Studium.

Van Steen, Maarten; Andrew S. Tanenbaum (2023): Distributed Systems, 4th ed. (https://www.distributed-systems.net/)

Wirdemann, Ralf. (2011): Scrum mit User Stories. München: Hanser, Carl.

Zörner, Stefan. (2013): LDAP für Java-Entwickler: Einstieg und Integration. [s.l.]: entwickler press.

Attendance is compulsory for kick-off meeting, coaching appointments, seminar exercise appointments, final project presentation, repetition of final project presentation if necessary, written exam.