15-440 - Distributed Systems

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Project 1: Remote File Storage and Access Kit (File Stack) using Sockets and Remote Method Invocation

Design Report Due Date: 12 Sep 2012, by 11:59pm

Final Project Due Date: 1 Oct 2012, by 11:59pm

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• Project description can be found in Project 1 Handout.
• Rubrics can be found in Ruberics-PDF
• Download Project 1 Starter Code. This is the framework that you will be modifying. Unzip the file. Read the README document. For the complete documentation of the framework, read the following (preferably in the same order)
  • "Design and implementation guidelines" section in the project handout.
  • javadoc of the starter code. Note: make docs-all command creates javadoc of starter code.
  • Once you are familiar with the conceptual design of the project, then go over Project 1 Implementation Notes.

Apps -- New feature to test your code

The "apps" package allows command-line access to the distributed file operations in FileStack. Apps package - with little changes to your existing project 1 code - allows you to utilize the apps package for easily accessing distributed files that are managed by your own FileStack implementation Now using simple commands on the shell you can:

• Read, write and copy files
• Start the name server and storage servers,
• Change a directory and list contents of a directory

Use the P1_StarterCode_AppsAddon.zip provides you the apps package. Follow the below instructions to use the apps features:

• Backup your existing project 1 code
• cd to your project 1 code directory
• Download the file P1_StarterCode_AppsAddon.zip
• Delete apps directory
• Unzip P1_StarterCode_AppsAddon.zip in your current directory
• Read the file README.apps file before using the apps module