Instant CORBA - Softcover

Orfali, Robert; Harkey, Dan; Edwards, Jeri

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471183334 ISBN 13: 9780471183334

Publisher: Wiley, 1997

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Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Web-or the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companies-including Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HP-have chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP.

Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding this revolutionary new technology. If you're in a real hurry, this book even provides a condensed tour that will make you CORBA literate in four hours or less.

Written in a friendly and witty style, this comprehensive book covers:
* The Object Web-or how CORBA/IIOP, Java, and the Internet are coming together
* Everything you need to know about a CORBA 2.0 ORB
* The 15 CORBA Object Services-including Transactions, Trader, Security, Naming, Events, Time, and Collections. These services provide the next step in the evolution of distributed objects.
* CORBA's Dynamic Object Facilities such as Callbacks, Dynamic Invocations, Object Introspection, and the Interface Repository
* Next-generation ORB technology-including CORBA 3.0's. Messaging, Pass-by-Value, and Server-Side Frameworks
* The marriage of CORBA with MOM and TP Monitors
* Forthcoming CORBA attractions such as mobile agents, shippable places, and the business object framework
* Products such as Iona's OrbixWeb, Netscape/Visigenic's VisiBroker, and Sun's NEO/JOE.

The authors have written many best-selling books, including The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide and The Essential Client/Server

Survival Guide, Second Edition, which won Software Development's Jolt Award for the best book of 1994, in its first edition. Their most recent book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA.

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Review:

First published in 1997, Instant CORBA provides a solid, extremely readable introduction to the world of distributed objects using CORBA and Java on the Web. Written by three CORBA experts, this book remains an extremely approachable introduction to CORBA basics for any manager or programmer trying to make sense of distributed computing using CORBA objects, Java, and the Internet.

The best thing about this book is its remarkably friendly explanation of the basics of CORBA, along with appropriate detail on what distributed objects are and what advantages they offer for distributed computing on the middle tier. There is excellent material on built-in CORBA interfaces (called CORBAservices), including the basics of creating and managing objects, as well as using transactions with the Object Transaction Service (OTS). For over a dozen CORBA services, the authors provide nicely readable scenarios (rendered in sequence diagrams) for the use and interaction of CORBA objects and services. (Another standout here is a long chapter on security in a distributed setting, including a discussion of authentication, audit trails, and non-repudiation, an essential legal requirement of e- commerce.)

Though some of this enthusiastically written book's prognostications (such as the ascendancy of CORBA-based "intergalactic objects" and "shippable places" on the Web) haven't quite come to pass, the strengths of Java and CORBA are indeed more and more obvious to many organizations. Though it shows off a few gray hairs here and there (with quite a few references to CORBA products from 1996-97), Instant CORBA still manages to deliver a lively presentation of CORBA fundamentals suitable for any manager or programmer who wants a thorough primer on this truly exciting technology. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: CORBA basics, business objects, CORBA on the Web, Java ORBs, static and dynamic methods, Basic Object Adapter (BOA), IDL, CORBAservices, Naming, Life Cycle and Event Services, Object Trader, Object Transaction Service (OTS), security (authentication, audit trails, non-repudiation), Persistent Object Service (POS), Query and Collection Services, Relationship and Time Services, Licensing and Property Services, CORBA 3, and compound document standards.

From the Publisher:

Written by authors who are regarded as Distributed Objects and CORBA gurus, this book describes CORBA fundamentals in an easy-to-understand way, providing key information that managers and sales staff need to know (such as what all the CORBA acronyms mean). It also explains the connection between CORBA, Java, and the Web.

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