Distributed Programming

http://www.disi.unige.it/person/CazzolaW/ps/DISI-TR-01-13.pdf - A description and example of using Multicast RMI, so that multiple servers can be accessed as a group, in either a "parallel" or "fault tolerant" way.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/05/03/jms_primer.html?page=3 - Pub/Sub, P2P

http://www.manning.com/Mahmoud/ - "Distributed Programming with Java"

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Agents/Mobile_Agents - Mobile agents

http://www.tagents.org/ - mobile agents, using Java. Open Source, doesn't use TCL/TK, doesn't use ADA, etc.

http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/ - JADE, the Java Agent DEvelopment framework.

http://www.openp2p.com/ - Open Peer-to-Peer stuff

http://www.hypernews.org/~liberte/www/searching/distributed.html - Distributed Searching

http://www.javaworld.com/ - Has articles on mobile agent technology from Japan, namely aglets

http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_mobile_agents.html - lots of links about objects, mobile agents, distributed programming etc

http://www.vistabonita.com/papers/DCAglets/DCWithAglets.html - example of aglets

http://java.sun.com/products/jms/tutorial/1_3_1-fcs/doc/overview.html#1027335 - Tutorial on JMS

http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch06s07.html - JBossMQ tutorial on their implementation of JMS topics/queues

Enabling Applications for Grid Computing, an online book covering the theory side: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/SG246936.html

I'm in my DistributedProgramming class again... since I'm bored with RMI, decided to do a bit of googling on the topic instead. Found some very interesting info about Mobile Agents. Also relates to some of the concepts of SOAP. The most promising thing I've found so far is JADE, which is a bunch of tools that provide a framework for constructing "Agents", making it easier to focus on defining what the Agents do (talk to each other, do stuff, etc) and not so much on how they do it, and how they migrate to other containers (hosts), and so on.

Grid Computing

Another intiative from IBM.

This is cool, IBM is trying to have Quake2 run on a grid: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227299,00.asp

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