| Date | Material Covered | Reading | Homework | |
| Jan. 17 | Overview. History. Basic Networking Layers. IP. DNS. Ports. Firewall. Proxy. | Chp. 2 of Steflik. Chp. 2 of Harold | ||
| Jan. 22 | Client/Server. n-tier. IETF. RFCs. W3C. URI. URL. URN. HTTP. CGI. | Chp. 2,3 of Harold. | ||
| Jan. 24 | Java I/O streams. DNS. URL class. Browser.java. Sockets for clients. Sockets for servers. | Chp. 4,6,7,10,11 of Harold. | ||
| Jan. 29 | Secure sockets, UDP. | Chp. 12,13 of Harold | ||
| Jan. 31 | Time for questions. | |||
| Feb. 5 | Test 1 | PS 1 due | ||
| Feb. 7 | Intro to Distributed Object Computing | Chapter 3 of Java Distributed Computing, except for the section on CORBA. | ||
| Feb. 12 | Java RMI. | Steflik Chp 5. Getting Started with RMI. Dynamic code downloading using RMI. . | ||
| Feb. 14 | Java RMI. | Steflik Chp 5. Creating a Custom RMI Socket Factory. Creating an Activatable Remote Object | ||
| Feb. 19 | Pros/cons of RMI.Overview. Components intro. | RMI whitepaper. RMI Specification, Chp. 1-3. | ||
| Feb. 21 | Time for questions. | |||
| Feb. 26 | Test 2 | PS 2 due | ||
| Feb. 28 | CORBA Introduction. | Corba Specs, chp.2 (optional). Corba: Integrating Diverse.... Corba Overview. | ||
| March 5 | CORBA. Java and CORBA. | Corba and Java 2. Java IDL: Using Corba. Getting Started with Java IDL. Steflik, Chp. 6. Java IDL (the root of all info). | ||
| March 7 | Java and CORBA. Java Beans. | Developing Java Beans, Chp. 1. Chp. 8 of Steflik. | ||
| March 12 | Spring Break. No classes. | |||
| March 14 | Spring Break. No classes. | |||
| March 19 | Corba and C++. | |||
| March 21 | Time for questions. | |||
| March 26 | Test 3 | PS 3 due | ||
| March 28 | COM Introduction. | Thai, chp. 1-2. | ||
| April 2 | DCOM | Thai, chp. 2. | ||
| April 4 | DCOM | Thai, chp. 2-3. | ||
| April 9 | DCOM | Thai, chp. 3. | ||
| April 11 | DCOM | Thai, chp. 4. | ||
| April 16 | No Class. Easter Holiday | |||
| April 18 | Thai, chp. 5. | |||
| April 23 | No Class | |||
| April 25 | Test 4 | |||
| April 30 | .NET dot now | SOAP Spec, don't worry about the details. | ||
| May 2 | Bill Joy on Java and Jini | Jini Architecture. | PS 4 due | |
| May 10 | Final at 2:00pm |
