What is a network device
What is a network service

Distributed applications

Network device h/w & s/w
  RFID
  Smartcards
  Embedded Linux
  Java embedded machines
     Sun profiles
     TinyVM
  Proxies
     Surrogate

Network connectivity
  ethernet
  HomeRF
  WLAN
  Bluetooth

Locating services
  name servers
  multicast vs unicast
  IP lookup ?
  CORBA/RMI name servers
  CORBA Trader
  Jini lookup
  UDDI ?

Communicating between clients and services
  RPC
  SOAP/UDDI
  RMI
  Jini mobile objects

Asynchronous events
  Event models
  CORBA events
  Jini events
  
Federating services

Web services

Security

Transactions

Distributed garbage collection

User interfaces for internet services

Bridging between protocols

Activatable services

Backends to enterprise systems