6.1 Assignment 1: The design and implementation of an Event Notification System based on the publish/subscribe paradigm

The aims of this assignment are:

• to introduce you to distributed object systems through the development of an RMI-based distributed event notification system.
• to familiarise you with the concepts behind publish/subscribe event notification systems.

In doing the assignment, you will demonstrate the use of Java Remote Method Invocation for distributed communication between objects, the implementation of the observer design pattern and the use of regular expression matching to associate event publication with interested subscribers.