Engineering Distributed Objects

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The purpose of this text book is to teach how to develop software in the modern distributed environment. Understanding something of distributed environments, but concentrating on developing software applications, this book departs from the existing focus on building systems infrastructure. The emphasis is strongly slanted towards applications development however networking, security, control and administration are covered in order that students understand key issues related to developing software in a distributed environment. "Engineering Distributed Objects" is divided into: concepts, infrastructures for distributed objects, and common design problems.   Click here to find out about institutions which have adopted the book.   About the book cover Invited talk on Distributed Components (ICSE 2002)

Features:  Unique - First textbook to challenge the currently dated distributed systems curricula  Modern - First text to cover a whole new class or layer of software - middleware - and its significance for building applications in a networked environment  Covers key and stable technologies and concentrates on engineering principles rather than tools and widgets  Strong Student-orientation - Chapters will start with a statement of learning objectives and end with a summary of key points and a list of questions for self assessment  Instructor-friendly - Each chapter will include material that can be taught in two lectures and an Instructors Guide offers routes through material depending upon background of students.

The author can be contacted at: W.Emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk