This book provides a broad overview of CORBA as well as the detailed technical information necessary to fully understand CORBA; introduces the principles of distributed computing and how CORBA permits interoperability across networks, operating systems and programming languages; develops a running example to illustrate the most important features of the standard; covers advanced CORBA features such as dynamic invocations and the CORBAservices; and also advanced Orbix features such as filters and thread support; discusses some of the other technologies that can be integrated with CORBA, such as OLE and databases; and briefly illustrates the Java-based OrbixWeb.

About the Author:

Sean Baker is a co-founder and director of IONA Technologies, where he is responsible for the customer-facing technical departments and specific technical directions such as database integration. Prior to establishing IONA, Sean held a tenured post in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin where he helped form the Distributed Systems Group.

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