Notes - Meeting of 2/5/09

Attending: Jane, Eileen

Jane has located and installed ORM-Lite. Will plan to demo and talk about ORM at Monday meeting.

Study planning -- will integrate the pre-test and the lecture in an augmented ppt format (audio, animations, more ...) Outline of lecture:

• UML Basics -- sequence diagrams, state diagrams
• quiz
• Concurrency
  • Threads and Thread Life Cycle
  • Race conditions, Mutual Exclusion, critical section
  • Monitors (simple)
  • Monitors (complex)
  • Examples: bank account, bounded buffer, dining philosophers, readers-writers, rendezvous (party problem)
• quiz
• UML II -- representing concurrency in sequence and state diagrams
• quiz
• Implementation
  • -- Java threads?, ACE wrappers?
  • Idiom -- mapping from state digrams to implementation
• quiz