OLD (2025): Proiectarea si Arhityectura Sistemelor Software Complexe (PASSC).
Design and Architecture of Complex Software Systems (DACSS)

New contents for 2026: link

OLD Lectures: Schedule and Slides 2025

• Course overview and administration short-intro-2025.pptx

  Part I - Introduction and Basic Concepts

• Week 1. Introduction. What is software architecturre
  • Slides: dacss1-2024.pptx
  • Reading: [Bass] - Chap.1.1- Where do architectures come from ? [Bass] - Chap 2 - What is software architecture ?

  Part II - Fundamental architectural styles

• Week 2. Layers, Pipes-Filters, Blackboard
  • Slides: dacss2-2025.pptx
  • Lab: Assignment 1
  • Reading:
    • [POSA1] - Chap.2.2- From mud to structure
• Week 3. Event-driven
  • Slides: dacss3-2025.pptx
  • Lab: Assignment 2
  • Reading:
    • [POSA1] - From Chap 3.6, the Section related to Publisher-Subscriber (pag 339-343)
    • S. Gupta, J. Hartkopf, S. Ramaswamy - Event Notifier, a Pattern for Event Notification. link

  Part III - Domain speciffic architectural patterns

  Adaptable systems: The Reflection Pattern

• Week 4. A particular case of the Reflection pattern: Reflective programming languages
  • Slides: dacss4-2025.pptx
  • Code examples: ReflectionDemo.java, DynamicDemo.java
  • Reading:
    • The Java Tutorial: The Reflection Trail link
    • Microsoft Learn: Reflection in .NET link
• Week 5. The Reflection pattern
  • Slides: dacss5-2025.pptx
  • Lab: Assignment 3
  • Reading:
    • [POSA1] chap 2.5
    • Dirk Riehle, Michel Tilman, Ralph Johnson: The Dynamic Object Model, link
    • Joseph Yoder, Ralph Johnson: The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style , link

  Distributed systems: The Broker Pattern

• Week 6. Distributed Systems: The Broker Pattern
  • Slides: dacss6-2024-intro-network.pptx, dacss6-2024-broker.pptx
  • Source code - examples Sockets in Java: sockets examples
  • Source code - examples Client-Server using Sender-Receiver and Requester-Replyer: ByteCommunication.zip
  • Reading:
    • Forwarder-Receiver: [POSA1], from chap.3.6 (pag 307-322)
    • Client-Dispatcher-Server: [POSA1], from chap. 3.6 (pag 323-336)
    • Remote Proxy: from chap. 3.4 (pag 263-275)
    • Broker: [POSA1] chap 2.3
    • Michael Kircher, Markus Voelter, Klaus Jank, Christa Schwanninger, Michael Stal: Broker Revisited, link
• Week 7. Implementations of the Broker Pattern in Middleware Technologies
  • Slides: dacss7-2023-rmi.ppt, dacss7-2023-toyorb.ppt
  • Source code:
    • The StockMarket Example with Java RMI (technology based on Broker pattern)
    • The StockMarket Example with WCF (technologies using Remote Proxy pattern)
  • Lab: Assignment 4
• Week 8. continue discussion on broker
  • Slides: dacss-2025-DynProxy.pptx
  • Lab: Assignment 4 continued

Data Access: Tehnologies and Patterns