CORBA Fundamentals and Programming

Jon Siegel

ISBN 10: 0471121487 / ISBN 13: 9780471121480

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United States, New York, 1996

About this Item

Since it supports a wide range of approaches to system integration, CORBA is complex and often prone to subjective interpretation. An understanding of the trade-offs involved in various approaches is crucial. Fostering this kind of understanding is the inspiration for the Object Management Architecture (OMA). After a review of OMA, CORBA, and Common Object Services Specification (COSS), this book discusses object-oriented analysis and design methods and compares available object request brokers. It provides a fully-worked example with a single object implementation. Other examples address cascading object calls, inheritance, and the use of multiple object services. On the disk: Source code in C, C++ Source code in Smalltalk Interface Definition Language Interfaces. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CORBA Fundamentals and Programming
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United States, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471121487
• ISBN 13: 9780471121480
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A wealth of working code gives you hands-on experience in building CORBA-compliant applications.

In this valuable guide, Jon Siegel, Director of Domain Technology at the Object Management Group, and CORBA product development teams from across Europe and the United States present distributed object tutorial applications. Based on a common OMG IDL file, and worked in eight commercially available ORB environments using C, C++, and Smalltalk, the techniques presented in the example will help you write new programs faster at lower cost, and make existing programs easier to change, extend, and maintain.

CORBA Fundamentals and Programming also provides you with all of the necessary technical background and details about CORBA, CORBAservices, and CORBAfacilities. Discussion of each component starts with its impact on your enterprise—which of your computing problems it solves, and how it does it—and includes enough detail to show how all the parts work together. Descriptions of eight representative ORBs showcase the diversity of the programming environments which work together under the CORBA banner. The final half of the book is devoted to the tutorial example.

On the disk you'll find:

• All IDL interfaces
• Source code in C, C++, and Smalltalk
• Make files for eight ORB environments

About the Author

JON SIEGEL, PhD, is Director of Domain Technology at the OMG where he chairs the Domain Technology Committee which sets OMG specifications for vertical markets. He is a frequent speaker about the OMG at conferences and symposia around the world, and works closely with international standards groups, industry consortia, and the end-user community to promote the use of OMG specifications as industry standards.

Contributors include: Dan Frantz, PhD, Digital Equipment Corporation; Hal Mirsky, Expersoft Corporation; Raghu Hudli, PhD, IBM Corporation; Alex Thomas and Wilf Coles, ICL; Peter de Jong, PhD, Alan Klein, and Brent Wilkins, Hewlett-Packard, Inc.; Sean Baker, PhD, IONA Corporation; Maurice Balick, SunSoft, Inc.