The Essential Corba: Systems Integration Using Distributed Objects - Softcover

Mowbray, Thomas J.; Zahavi, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471106119 ISBN 13: 9780471106111

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Explains the rationale, object-oriented principles and engineering strategies in order to design, utilize and establish a successful CORBA-based structure. Demonstrates how the technology can readily accommodate heterogeneous combinations of platforms, R&D prototypes as well as legacy and commercial software. Describes how these techniques and tactics are effective within organizations and across federated communities of software suppliers and consumers.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas J. Mowbray, PhD and Ron Zahavi work for the MITRE Corporation where they are actively engaged in the research and development of object-based systems. Dr. Mowbray is the Chairman of the OMG Common Facilities Task Force, and "Architectures" columnist for Object magazine. Ron Zahavi is the leader of the Object Management Technologies Group in the MITRE Open Systems Center.

The Object Management Group is a nonprofit international corporation dedicated to establishing industry guidelines and object management specification to provide a common framework for distributed application development. Founded in 1989, the OMG membership includes over 350 information system vendors, software developers, and users. OMG's first specification, The Common Object Request Broker, is widely regarded as the industry standard for distributed application development.

From the Back Cover

A step-by-step guide to successful CORBA-based systems integration--what every systems designer needs to know to assure interoperability

The Essential CORBA is the only book available that deals with the application of CORBA specifications to systems development. It provides in-depth coverage of what every systems developer needs to know in order to establish a CORBA-based framework for the development of workable, distributed, object-oriented applications.

Written by experts in object-based systems, this valuable book clearly and precisely covers:
* Theory and principles of standard object-technology, including CORBA, systems architecture integration frameworks, and Object Management Group (OMG) standards
* Methods and techniques for establishing an effective CORBA-based framework
* Object-wrapping techniques, including examples of commonly encountered problems
* Strategies for software reuse and rapid application development
* Assessment methods for current systems in place, and the benefits to the organization of improved system integration
* Strategies for accommodating heterogeneous mixtures of platforms, legacy software, commercial software, and R&D prototypes
* Design concepts for any type of system--custom built, component based, or one that incorporates elements of both--that encourage nonreliance on commercial software vendors
* Questions of security in the context of systems integration
* Product overviews for major CORBA object request brokers

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471106119
• ISBN 13: 9780471106111
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336