Teaching Distributed Programming – Revisiting the Broker Pattern
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Abstract
The Broker pattern[5] had its golden era as an architectural pattern for distributed object-oriented programming in the late 1990’ies and early 2000’s and was supported by a large set of frameworks: CORBA, Java RMI,.Net remoting, gRPC, SOAP and others. However, the tooling tended to be heavy-weight and cumbersome, security issues were hard to handle, and the growth of the more lightweight REST architectural style [13, 23] caused Broker based architectures to become much less used. In this tool paper we will argue why the Broker pattern offers a number of advantages over REST in a teaching context, argue that Broker can achieve similar architectural qualities as REST, show case an open source Broker library, and report from successful teaching experiences.
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