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Communication essentials

Communication essentials. Communication patterns Communication structure: OSI reference model and TCP/IP coverage Major middleware communication services RPC RMI http I hate to wait … Message passing (skip) Streams. Communication patterns. Producer. Consumer. query. response.

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Communication essentials

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  1. Communication essentials • Communication patterns • Communication structure: OSI reference model and TCP/IP coverage • Major middleware communication services • RPC • RMI • http • I hate to wait … • Message passing • (skip) Streams Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  2. Communication patterns Producer Consumer query response Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  3. Communication patterns with broker Consumer 1 Producer 1 Subscription service Consumer 2 Producer 2 Consumer 3 query Server 1 Request broker Client 1 query response Server 2 Client 2 response Server 3 Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  4. Communication patterns -other variations • Blocking or non-blocking • Connection-based or connectionless • Transient or persistent Examples: • blocking transient query-response == RPC • non-blocking persistent producer/consumer == message queuing Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  5. A note about blocking • Blocking communication blocks the thread that makes the call • Other work may continue in other threads in the same process • More about threads and processes next week Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  6. Communication essentials • Communication patterns • Communication structure: OSI reference model and TCP/IP coverage • Major middleware communication services • RPC • RMI • http • I hate to wait … • Message passing Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  7. OSI Reference Model TCP/IP HTTP, FTP, … 2-1 not used not used TCP, UDP connectionless IP e.g. Ethernet sending bits Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  8. Middleware Protocols 2-5 RPC RMI Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  9. Where does http fit? • Originally, it looked like an application-level protocol, where the application was fetching and viewing HTML pages • As the Web has matured, it has been used increasingly as middleware. • It’s the foundation for • Web applications • Web services Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  10. Communication essentials • Communication patterns • Communication structure: OSI reference model and TCP/IP coverage • Major middleware communication services • RPC • RMI • http • I hate to wait … • Message passing Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  11. RPC is all about • Allowing a client to make a procedure call that is processed on a remote machine • Without the client’s having to care (much) Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  12. 2.3 0.98 Ordinary procedure call process caller callee (callee is atanh) Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  13. 0.98 0.98 client stub server stub message Atanh, 0.98 RPC: call the procedure across a network client process server process caller callee network Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  14. 2.3 2.3 client stub server stub message OK, 2.3 RPC: call the procedure across a network client process server process caller callee network Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  15. RPC Summary • client stub pretends to be the callee client process server process • server stub pretends to be the caller • caller and callee are written as if they were on the same machine caller callee client stub server stub • location transparency!! (almost) network Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  16. Warning: passing parameters and results can be tricky Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  17. Passing Value Parameters (1) Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  18. Passing Value Parameters (2) • Original message (JILL, 5) on the Pentium (little endian) • The message after receipt on the SPARC (big endian) • The message after being inverted. The little numbers in boxes indicate the address of each byte Number is backwards String is backwards Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  19. Conclusion from the byte order problem • You have to explicitly define your interfaces. • This problem is one of the fundamental motivators for the use of Interface Definition Languages (IDL) • Passing value parameters is a key component of access transparency. Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  20. Interface definition Interface definitions are critical factors in • Openness • Flexibility • Access transparency • Enabling proxy construction in middleware Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  21. Activity – what can go wrong?(with an RPC) Brainstorm things that can go wrong when a program on machine A tries to make an RPC to a server on machine B Network A B Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  22. Pick the top three • The instructor will pick some of the failures you brainstormed • Multi-vote on the ones in whose solutions you are most interested • You will use the top three vote-getters in the next activity Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  23. Activity – what could you do about it? Brainstorm approaches to dealing with the top three failure modes Network A B Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  24. Communication patterns -reminder Parameters: • Query-response or producer-consumer • Blocking or non-blocking • Connection-based or connection-less • Persistent or transient Examples: • blocking transient query-response == RPC • non-blocking persistent producer/consumer == message queuing Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  25. Finding the server or peer • In all cases, the process that initiates a communication has to find the process it wants to communicate with • The address could be in • Source code (simplest, least flexible) • Configuration file • A network directory service (requires client to know a name for a server) (e.g. DNS) • A series of directories (e.g. LDAP, then RMI Registry) • Interaction with the directory is usually blocking request/response Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  26. Communication essentials • Communication patterns • Communication structure: OSI reference model and TCP/IP coverage • Major middleware communication services • RPC • RMI • http • I hate to wait … • Message passing Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  27. Focus on Remote Objects • Here, object == state + methods + interface • Usually, only the interface is distributed • “Remote objects” refers to approaches in which, for each object there is some server where all of it state resides Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  28. Distributed Objects • Common organization of a remote object with client-side proxy. 2-16 Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  29. Basic Java RMI Interface.class _Stub.class * • Server registers its name and remote object • Client gets reference to remote object from rmiregistry • Client calls server Client 2. rmiregistry** 3. * = not needed if Client and Server are both Java 1.5 or newer 1. Server ** = RMI Registry can be a separate process or an object inside the Server process. If separate, must be on same machine. Interface.class _Skel.class * Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  30. Passing objects around … • In RMI, parameters and return values can be object references • If the parameter refers to a local object, do you copy the object or pass only a reference? • If the parameter refers to a remote object, what do you pass? Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  31. Local, remote objects in Java RMI • Local objects are passed by value • Remote objects by reference • Passing a remote object by reference means passing a proxy by value Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  32. Parameter Passing in RMI Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  33. http • Communication patterns: • Transient • Query/response • But, http does NOT simulate a procedure call • Non-blocking (officially) • Many clients choose to block • HTTP 1.1 is defined in RFC 2616 • Depends on TCP for reliable communication Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  34. Steps in an HTTP interaction • Client requests TCP connection • Client and server collaborate to create a TCP connection • Client sends an HTTP request • Server sends a response • TCP connection torn down • In HTTP 1.1, connection can be kept alive Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  35. method request URI protocol headers content Anatomy of an HTTP request POST /don/demo HTTP/1.1 accept: */* accept-language: en-us referer: http://localhost:8080/don/echoclient.htm content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded accept-encoding: gzip, deflate user-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; NovaPacs Viewer 6.0.197.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) host: localhost:8080 content-length: 37 connection: Keep-Alive cache-control: no-cache name=007&mission=deep%20dark%20secret Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  36. Watch out for Norton (and others) POST /don/demo HTTP/1.1 accept: */* accept-language: en-us -------: ----:-----------:----------------------- content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded ---------------: ----- ------- user-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; NovaPacs Viewer 6.0.197.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) host: localhost:8080 content-length: 37 connection: Keep-Alive cache-control: no-cache name=007&mission=deep%20dark%20secret Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  37. status code protocol reason phrase headers content Anatomy of an HTTP response HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5 Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 57 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:55:54 GMT Server: Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9.0_01 <greeting>Hello, 007. You made a POST request.</greeting> Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  38. Making an HTTP request in Java Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  39. Server side: HttpServlet Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  40. Servlet container Container (Tomcat, Glassfish, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc) your Servlet Servlet base class request client response DB whatever Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  41. Smudging the transparency … • Network-unfriendly code • Lots of clients can mean lots of configuration management Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  42. Network-unfriendly code … • In OO, there are usually lots of fine-grained classes, and lots of getters and setters • Performance is not good if you do this over a network Person person = new Person(); person.setFirstName(fname); person.setMiddleInitial(initial); person.setLastName(lname); Address address = new Address(); address.setStreet(street); address.setCity(city); address.setState(state); person.setAddress(address); … Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  43. Network-unfriendly client server domain object domain object Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  44. A more network-friendly way • This is a recurring problem in distributed systems • Remote façade and Data transfer object patterns provide the core of a solution • Define a façade class with methods that group multiple fine-grained operations together • Define classes (DTOs) with nothing but getters and setters for moving groups of data items around • Keep the business logic in the original class(es) on the server side Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  45. Using Remote Façade + DTO • Client creates a DTO • Client calls lots of setters on DTO • Client calls façade with DTO as parameter • Service calls lots of getters on DTO, setters (and other methods, as needed) on the domain object(s) • Façade creates DTO2 • Façade calls setters on DTO2 • Façade returns DTO2 to client • Client calls lots of getters on DTO2 Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  46. Using Remote Façade + DTO client server Façade DTO DTO domain object domain object DTO2 DTO2 Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  47. Remote Façade + DTO code (flavor) PersonTO pto = new PersonTO(); pto.setFirstName(fname); pto.setMiddleInitial(initial); pto.setLastName(lname); pto.setStreet(street); pto.setCity(city); pto.setState(state); Facade facade = new Facade(); ResultTO rto = facade.addPerson(pto); … Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  48. Remote Façade + DTO consequences • Reduced network traffic • Reduced coupling between client and domain model • Costs include • More classes to deal with • Getters and setters called multiple times (client DTO.get, server DTO.get + domain.set) • Risks include • Temptation to put business logic in DTO • Temptation to skip domain model development and build a DTO-processing system Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  49. More about client/domain coupling • Refactoring is a good thing • Issues with refactoring a network service • Refactored client needs to be deployed in many places • Service administrators may not know where all the clients are • There may be clients the service developers know nothing about Distributed Systems - Comp 655

  50. A more refactoring-friendly way • This is a recurring problem in distributed systems • Patterns include • Migrate code at runtime • e.g. applet • See Tanenbaum & van Steen, section 3.5, if interested • Remote façade + DTO helps here, too Distributed Systems - Comp 655

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