CS3301: Component Technology
This module is offered in 2024-25.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, the student should:
- Understand current and emerging component technologies.
- Understand major themes of middleware, communication and service-oriented computing models.
- Understand the principles of and differences between object-oriented and message-oriented middleware.
- Know how to use components to build distributed applications.
- Have competence in applying component technologies to development.
Syllabus
- Principles of large-scale design.
- Communications paradigms:
- Remote procedures.
- Messages and events.
- XML-RPC: the simplest middleware.
- Message-oriented middleware:
- Scalability and architecture.
- Intelligent routing.
- Services: naming, trading, events.
- Service-oriented architecture.
- SOAP: current-generation middleware.
- Advanced techniques: architectures, dynamism and orchestration.
Compulsory Elements
This module has no compulsory elements beyond those common to all modules (mark of 4 in each assessment component).