IG can help here if needed. ORBacus Properties Service Code Walkthru Describe the purpose, interfaces and use of the property service. Distributed Transaction Management Explain some of the basics of distributed transaction management, including global transaction ids, thread-transaction mapping, transaction context propagation, etc. See IG for some resources on this. Events Code Walkthru Present the architecture and main classes and interactions of the Orbacus Events service.
Sources are the code itself.
A reverse engineering case tool may prove very useful indeed. The assignments build on each other to some degree, so it s important to at least get the core parts working well. You re required to keep and hand in a lab book that describes what you did for each assignment. You ll hand in the latest part of this for each assignment. The tasks required here depend on what machines you ll be working on.