One Minute Evaluations for 18-20 March

CS 537 - Client-Server Interfaces

  • Topic: We talked about RPC, RPC implementation, and RPC-gen, run-time interface.

    Didn't get: RPC-gen functionality is confusing.

    One minute response: Your work on the second project should help clarify what RPC-gen does (and why it does it).

  • Topic: What we learned? -> About RPC.

    Didn't get: Difficulty? I could not clearly understand the functioning of RPC interface.

    One minute response: An RPC interface is a translator that converts between the RPC runtime system and the RPC user code.

  • Topic: We learned about RPC GEN and RPC.

    Didn't get: Not get how to actually write code for RPC-gen.

    One minute response: We're not going to cover that in any great detail, although we'll talk a little about the general idea when we cover Sun's RPC next week.

  • Topic: It gave me an overview of [?] functions.

    Didn't get: How does the calling of distributed functions work like RMI.

    One minute response: Well be discussing RMI next week.

  • Topic: RPC.

    Didn't get: How could keep SRPC-gen standard.

    One minute response: You don't have to worry about complying with standards; all you have to do is make sure that the client and server end agree.

  • Topic: RPC.

    Didn't get: Understood the concept. But was very hard to put things together. There should have been specific examples of systems.

    One minute response: We'll be looking at those next week. And your second project should be a great help in figuring out how the pieces and concepts fit together.

  • Topic: Implementation of RPC; its structure/interfaces.

    Didn't get: Little bit confusing. Hope some working examples will be good.

    One minute response: Chapter 23 of the Comer and Stevens contains an example you can work through (and by "work through" I mean implement, not just read). Your second project also give you ample opportunity to work through some examples.

  • Topic: This week we talked about RPC; its functionalities, RPC-gen (interfaces) and runtime.

    Didn't get: I did not get what exactly is the difference between RPC-gen and runtime.

    One minute response: The RPC runtime is generic; it does not and cannot know anything about the code that's using it. RPC-gen creates the interface between the generic RPC runtime and specific RPC-user code.

  • Topic: Implementation issues, architecture, procedure call issues.

  • Topic: RPC, RPC-GEN.

    Didn't get: Almost all kind of overview. Don't understand anything in detail or as practical aspect.

    One minute response: Your understanding in detail comes from your work on the second project. The practical aspects should become clear when you compare the implementation of the first project using sockets vs using RPC.

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