In this section you can find material from the fourth edition that is not included in the fifth edition.

• The case study on ATM – can also be accessed from supplementary material for Chapter 3
• The case study on inter-process communication in UNIX – can also be accessed from supplementary material for Chapter 4
• Chapter 20: CORBA Case Study – a shortened version of this case study remains in Chapter 8.
  • Download Powerpoint Teaching Slides for CORBA Case Study From Ed 4
• The Jini distributed events specification – can also be accessed from upplementary material for Chapter 6
• Chapter 18 Distributed Shared Memory
  • Download Powerpoint Teaching Slides for DSM From Ed 4
• Case study of Grid middleware (featuring OGSA and the Globus toolkit) – can also be accessed from supplementary material for Chapter 9

Material from the third and earlier editions can be accessed via supplementary material for individual chapters