TDDC18 Component Based Software

Course information and literature

The course gives an introduction into component-based design and development. The course treats several component models (Corba, JavaBeans, EJB, DCOM) and modern composition systems, such as aspect-oriented programming, and invasive software composition.

This course is not a programming course. The lectures present concepts of component models and composition systems.

The course has no labs. However, we suggest some optional programming exercises that you can do on your own, using freely accessible software tools. Due to budget restrictions, there is no supervision, no submission and no correction of such programming exercises. We therefore recommend that you form small, informal working groups such that you can help each other if there should be problems.

Course literature

• Component Software, Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, second edition, by Clemens Szyperski. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-201-74572-0.

  Most chapters of the Szyperski book will be covered by lectures, at least at some degree. It also serves as background reading, providing more details on some of the topics that can not be treated exhaustively in the lectures. References to the corresponding chapters will be given on the slides as appropriate. Chapters 2, 3, 18, 19, 26, 27, 28 will not be taken up. Moreover, there are some lectures (F11-17) that are not covered by the book.

Lecture material

The slide material of some of the lectures can be found in this directory and this directory. The material may be subject to change without notice.

Other references

• SUN Microsystems Inc.: Java Reflection Tutorial, 2006.

• G. Beneken et al.: Componentware - State of the Art 2003. Background paper for the Understanding Components Workshop of the CUE initiative. Venice, October 2003.

• J. Bishop, N. Horspool: Cross-Platform Development: Software that Lasts. IEEE Computer 39(10): 26-35, Oct. 2006.

• L. Baresi, E. Di Nitto, C. Ghezzi: Toward Open-World Software: Issue and Challenges. IEEE Computer 39(10): 36-43, Oct. 2006.

• F. Bolton: Pure Corba. Sams Publishing, 2001.
  With code examples in both C++ and Java.

• M. Aleksy, A. Korthaus, M. Schader: Implementing distributed systems with Java and CORBA. Springer, 2005.

• OMG homepage. Material on CORBA, UML, MDA.

• CORBA special issue in Comm. ACM 41(10), Oct. 1998. (restricted access)

• Portable Object Adapter (POA) version of the CORBA lecture's example by Infowave.

• Aspect-oriented programming: Introduction. Special Issue of Communications of the ACM, 44(10), October 2001.

• G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, A. Mendhekar, C. Maeda, C. Lopes, J. Loingtier, J. Irwin: Aspect Oriented Programming. Proc. ECOOP'97, Springer LNCS, June 1997.

• A. Kleppe, J. Warmer, W. Bast: MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture (TM): Practice and Promise. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  Available for students as electronic copy in Kvartersbibliotek B.

• Uwe Assmann: Invasive Software Composition. Springer, 2003.

• The BETA language homepage.
  O. L. Madsen, B. Møller-Pedersen, K. Nygaard: Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language. Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-62430-3. [Chapter 17 on Beta fragments]

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• K. Czarnecki, U. Eisenecker: Generative Programming. Addison-Wesley, 2000.

• H. Kuchen: A Skeleton Library. Technical report 6/02-1, Univ.\ Münster, Germany, 2002.
  Describes an implementation of MueSLi, a skeleton-based parallel programming system using C++ templates and functional features.

• The Skeletal Parallelism homepage with links to relevant projects, maintained by M. Cole, U. Edinburgh

• W3C World-Wide Web Consortium, Web services activity (for SOAP, WSDL standards)

• Java Web Services (esp., XML processing)