Introduction
UML
Distributed Comp.
Exercises

JavaTech: An Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing with Java
By Clark S. Lindsey, Johnny S. Tolliver, and Thomas Lindblad
Cambridge University Press, October 2005

For Chapters 16-22, the web pages here provide support material, source code for the programs discussed in the book, and links to third party sites of interest. See the printed book for the text.

Chapter 16 in the JavaTech book is organized as follows:

16     Distributed computing
16.1  Introduction
16.2  Distributed computing for scientific applications
16.3  Minimalist UML
16.4  A conceptual model for a simple distributed application
16.5  Collaboration diagram for a simple distributed application
16.6  Server details
16.7  Web Course materials
         References