SENG 42273 — Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering — APIs are everywhere. You are making use of them even if you don’t know what an API is. Have you ever wondered how you are able to shop online, order an Uber, or even check the weather on your phone? They are all powered by APIs. What is an API? API stands for Application…

SENG 41283 — Distributed and Cloud Computing — This article is a requirement of course module SENG 41283 : Distributed and Cloud Computing offered as a part of the Bachelor of Science Honours in Software Engineering degree program. All the source codes used in this application can be found at the end of the article. Overview For this assignment…

SENG 41283 — Distributed and Cloud Computing — What is RabbitMQ? RabbitMQ is an open-source message-broker software that supports protocols like Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol, and MQ Telemetry Transport. It’s written in Erlang and built on top of the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. …

SENG 41283 — Distributed and Cloud Computing — What is Java RMI? Invoking a method on a remote object is typically known as remote method invocation(RMI) and Java RMI is the Java API that lets an object residing in a one JVM to invoke the methods on another object which is running on a different JVM. So, what are stubs, skeletons and…

SENG 41283 — Distributed and Cloud Computing — Web Services In simple terms, a web services are client server applications that communicate over the internet using HTTP. They provide interoperability between different software applications that run on different platforms and frameworks. According to Oracle, There are two types of web services: 1. “Big” Web Services. The “Big” web services uses Simple Object Access Protocol…

Usually, a program represents its data and information as data structures when dealing with them at runtime. …

Domain Name System or DNS for short is one of the key components for accessing the internet. In this article, we’ll discuss DNS in simpler terms and dive a bit deeper. DNS is in its basic form is kind of like the phone book on your mobile phone. Whenever you…