Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications (Hardcover, 2005)

Preface Introduction A User's Guide to This Book Trademarks Part I: Basic Distributed Computing Technologies Fundamentals Basic Communication Services High Assurance Communication Remote Procedure Calls and the Client/Server Model Styles of Client/Server Computing CORBA: The Common Object Request Broker Architecture System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication Part II: Web Technologies The World Wide Web Major Web Technologies Web Services Related Internet Technologies Platform Technologies Part III: Reliable Distributed Computing How and Why Computer Systems Fail Overcoming Failures in a Distributed System Dynamic Membership Group Communication Systems Point to Point and Multi-group Considerations The Virtual Synchrony Execution Model Consistency in Distributed Systems Part IV: Applications of Reliability Techniques Retrofitting Reliability into Complex Systems Software Architectures for Group Communication Part V: Related Technologies Security Options for Distributed Settings Clock Synchronization and Synchronous Systems Transactional Systems Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols Prospects for Building Highly Assured Web Services Other Distributed and Transactional Systems Appendix: Problems Bibliography Index