From sockets and RMI to web services

Traditional coverage of network programming techniques in a computer networking course addresses sockets, remote procedure call, and object-oriented remote procedure call. We propose two innovations to that coverage. The first is to emphasize the historical development of those techniques as a sequence with each technique evolving from the previous one. The second innovation is to extend the historical development and the techniques to the important current technique of web services. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Mark A. Holliday, J. Traynham Houston, E. Matthew Jones
• Keywords: Education, Historical Development, Java Remote Method Invocation, Procedure Call, SIGCSE 2008