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CS551 - Lecture 2 CS551Advanced Software Engineering Yugi Lee STB #555 (816) 235-5932 yugi@ /~yugi What is a Distributed System? A collection of autonomous hosts that that are connected through a computer network. Each host executes components and operates a distribution middleware Middleware enables the components to coordinate their activities Users perceive the system as a single, integrated computing facility. Why Distributed Object Technology? Distributed: Video clients need to download/show video on customer’s Web-TV Multiple servers needs to be operated by Hongkong Telecom Object Technology: Video clients are written in Java: Web-TV has Java Virtual Machine portability to e.g. Sony Playstation, Sega-Console... Video servers are written in C++: high performance Requirements Time to market Development of new applications with recent technology Integration of new applications increasingly difficult Scalability Management of 30,000,000 accounts Management of 10,000,000 customers Use by 2,000 concurrent users Reliability Hardware Heterogeneity Unisys Mainframes IBM Mainframes SPARC Servers PC Workstations Operating System Heterogeneity MVS UNIX Win-NT Programming Language Heterogeneity Cobol C/C++ Visual Basic Why Distributed Object Technology? Uniform view of all banking services Appropriate level of abstraction Preserving investment by wrapping legacy applications Exploiting advantages of object technology for new development Resolving distribution heterogeneity Requirements Scale 3,000,000 parts per aircraft Configuration of every aircraft is different CAA regulations demand that records are kept for every single part of aircraft Aircraft evolve during maintenance Boeing produce 500 aircraft per year Configuration database grows by 1.5 billion parts each year Projected life of each aircraft 30 years 45,000 engineers need on-line access to engineering data Requirements COTS Integration Existing IT infrastructure was no longer appropriate Boeing could not a