Module CSC5002—ASR6: Middleware and software architecture for distributed applications

Course's prerequisites:

• Fluency in writing programs in Java, using a Java IDE (we favor Eclipse), reading UML diagrams (use case, class, sequence), reading Shell scripts in Bash, versioning with Git.
• Some knowledge in Maven project construction, SQL programming.

Objectives of the teaching unit: After this teaching unit, you should be able to:

1. Identify and utilise the main paradigms for interaction between distributed entities (synchronous call, callbacks, asynchronous calls, publish/subscribe) through the study and practical application of various middleware technologies (REST, Server-Sent Events, AMQP, MQTT, JavaEE).
2. Design and implement a distributed application comprising several microservices. The application will be developed as part of a microproject spanning the entire teaching unit.
3. Identify design patterns and architectural patterns that use middleware for distributed applications: for example, microservices patterns such as the Ports & Adapters design pattern.
4. Define the concept of quality in distributed architecture and analyse the architecture choices that enable software architecture quality requirements to be met (for example, interoperability and scalability), and apply these elements when designing a distributed application: for example, decomposition into microservices using the Domain Driven Design Approach.

Sequencing

• Lecture
  Date
  Material
  Key notions
• Software Installations
  TODO before
  TODO
  • Software installations
• Foreword
  Foreword
  Foreword
  • Foreword
• Session1
  Session 1
  • Lecture 1: Presentation of the Teaching Unit, Middleware, Software Architectures, Microservices, Presentation of the micro-project
  • Microproject: 01—Discover the application
  • Addendum: Software Architecture, Examples of Quality Attributes, etc.
  • Software architecture, views, quality attributes, tactics, architecture patterns/styles (layered, microkernel, event-driven, microservices)
  • Middleware, separation of concerns, models of interaction (request/reply, callback, event-based)
• Session2
  Session 2
  • Lecture 2: REST Architecture Style
  • Discover: REST with JAX-RS
  • Microproject: 02—REST for microservice MiniSocs Frontend
  • Addendum: XML serialisation and Basics of HTTP
  • REST architecture style, client/server, stateless, cacheable, layered system, uniform interface (CRUD)
  • Resource (URI, un/marshalling), representation format (JSON, XML)
  • JAX-RS (JAVA RESTful Web services), annotations (@Path, @Consumes, @Produces, @GET..., @PathParam, @QueryParam)
• Session3
  Session 3
  • Microproject: Recommended milestone 1, Monolith application with REST access to the façade
• Session4
  Session 4
• Session5
  Session 5
• Session6
  Session 6
• Session7
  Session 7
• Session8
  Session 8
• Session9
  Session 9
• Session10
  Session 10
• Session11
  Session 11
• Session12
  Lecture 12
• Session13
  Session 12
  • Conference: Amadeus
  • Microproject: 06 and 07
• Session14
  Session 14
• Delivery of the Micro-Project
  Delivery of the Micro-Project
  Before at 6pm
  • Git archive or tag
• Exam and Project Defense
  Exam and Project Defense