Middleware & Enterprise Integration Technologies - May 2012

Information Technology (Semester 6)

TOTAL MARKS: 100
TOTAL TIME: 3 HOURS (1) Question 1 is compulsory.
(2) Attempt any four from the remaining questions.
(3) Assume data wherever required.
(4) Figures to the right indicate full marks. 1 (a) What are the challenges faced by distributed system?(10 marks) 1 (b) What do you understand by middleware? State the advantage of ORB architecture.(10 marks) 2 (a) Explain client-server architecture. What are its variations or types of client-server architecture?(10 marks) 2 (b) Discuss the key services provided by DCE.(10 marks) 3 (a) State the disadvantage of standard RPC. List the characteristics of RMI.(10 marks) 3 (b) How is remote CORBA object invocated? Explain RMI in CORBA.(10 marks) 4 (a) List the components of EJB framework. What is the purpose of EJB container?(10 marks) 4 (b) Explain DCOM and .NET framework.(10 marks) 5 (a) Define service. How is a business service implemented?(10 marks) 5 (b) Discuss SOA and web service.(10 marks) 6 (a) How would you align business and IT using SOA? How will you implement a WS using an agent?(10 marks) 6 (b) What are WS-standards? Explain WS-Security Framework.(10 marks)

Write short notes on (any two)

7 (a) Server Types.(10 marks) 7 (b) WS-Transactions.(10 marks) 7 (c) COM IDL.(10 marks)