1. Presentation 22 Distributed Objects on the Windows platform

2. Ingeniørhøjskolen i Århus Slide 2 Outline Motivation for looking into distributed objects on Windows platforms Distributed object technologies supported For the assignment

3. Ingeniørhøjskolen i Århus Slide 3 Microsoft Windows Microsoft is dominating the PC platform –Workstations (since the 80’s) –Servers (becoming more common) But also embedded platform –Windows CE general purpose RT embedded system –Pocket PC (e.g. hospital EPJ gaining momentum) –SmartPhone (for mobile phone platform) Important to consider Microsoft support for distributed solutions –Chances are there will be a Microsoft OS somewhere in your solution

4. Ingeniørhøjskolen i Århus Slide 4 Windows platforms Win32 programming API commonly used for Windows programming –COM: Component Object Model widespread –DCOM is “remoting” of COM.NET Framework –“Replaces” Win32 programming and COM programming –.NET Remoting & Web services available –.NET 3.0 => Windows Communications Foundation On Windows CE (incl. Pocket PC & SmartPhone) –No DCOM support on Windows CE –.NET Framework in “Compact Edition” –Only “Web services” supported in.NET Compact Framework

5. Ingeniørhøjskolen i Århus Slide 5 Technologies supported by Windows CORBA supported –C#, Delphi, C++ mappings may be used Java RMI supported –Using a JRE VM –Trouble with Win32 &.NET interop – support limited.NET Remoting –Tightly integrated in.NET framework (not CF) DCOM –Tightly integrated in some Win OS (not Windows CE) Web services –Tightly integrated in.NET framework (incl. CF) –Toolkits exists for Windows CE and Win32 applications Windows Communication Foundation –Unified Communication Model