Home

What's New

Course Overview

Adding & Dropping the Course

Academic Honesty

Reading Materials

Course Schedule

Assessment & Assignments

Computing

Textbooks

Required

• Wolfgang Emmerich, Engineering Distributed Objects. Wiley, 2000. ISBN: 0471986577.

Recommended

• Clemens Szyperski, Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming, ACM Press (Addison-Wesley), 1998. ISBN: 0201178885.

Lecture Notes

The lecture notes are available from a password-protected website. The username and password were sent out in a class email. If you have forgotten them, or need them again, email Eric.

Supplemental Readings

The fields of distributed software architecture and component-based software engineering are fairly young and are continually growing. Consequently, many of the concepts, principles and techniques have yet to be gathered into a comprehensive textbook suitable for educational purposes. Thus, your understanding of concepts, principles and techniques will be developed in part through readings of technical papers from the software engineering literature.

NOTE: The papers available here in PDF format are for the exclusive use of students enrolled in ICS 123 for classroom use only. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited.

The following papers will be used as supplemental readings:

• D.E. Perry and A.L. Wolf, Foundations for the Study of Software Architecture, ACM Software Engineering Notes, vol. 17, no. 4, Oct. 1992, pp. 40-52.
• R.N. Taylor, N. Medvidovic, K.M. Anderson, E.J. Whitehead, Jr., J.E. Robbins, K.A. Nies, P. Oreizy, D.L. Dubrow, A Component- and Message-Based Architectural Style for GUI Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 22, no. 6, Jun. 1996, pp. 390-406.
• D. Krieger and R.M. Adler, The Emergence of Distributed Component Platforms, IEEE Computer, vol. 31, no. 3, Mar. 1998, pp. 43-53.
• D.S. Rosenblum and A.L. Wolf, A Design Framework for Internet-Scale Event Observation and Notification, Proceedings of ESEC/FSE '97 6th European Conference on Software Engineering/5th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, Sep. 1997, pp. 344-360.

Other Printed Resources

For information on modeling software architectures in UML, see the following papers:

• Assessing the Suitability of a Standard Design Method for Modeling Software Architectures
• Integrating Architecture Description Languages with a Standard Design Method
• Integrating C2 with the Unified Modeling Language
  

Information on the Internet

• Software Architecture Research at UC Irvine
• The Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Java