Winner! 1996 Software Development/Jolt Productivity Award! "The first clear roadmap to commercial-grade object-oriented systems that many have been waiting for." -Tibbets and Bernstein, Information Week "A worthy sequel to The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide. It frames the CORBA and OLE/COM debate in ways useful to anyone curious about the technical underpinnings of a global computing fabric." -Jon Udell, Byte "Chock-full of useful information." -Mark Betz, Windows Tech Journal This is your best source to help you make intelligent decisions about distributed objects, component technologies, and their standards. Bestselling authors Orfali, Harkey, and Edwards combine detailed technical explanations with their unique brand of offbeat humor-using clever cartoons, controversial soapboxes, and witty quotes. You'll get the full story on distributed objects, including:
* What CORBA 2.0 and OLE/COM can do, and how they differ
* How distributed objects, components, and client/server come together
* Detailed coverage of object frameworks, component suites, business objects, compound documents, and TP monitors
* The inside scoop on key products like SOM, Orbix, ObjectBroker, Newi, and DOE
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This lively, topical, all-inclusive guide is designed to help readers navigate through the new distributed objects technology. By targeting the key issues, it offers the information essential to make intelligent choices. Provides a distributed objects roadmap, defines distributed components and situates distributed objects within the client/server field. Details CORBA and its products. Contains an integrated treatment of compound documents and business objects. Includes a comprehensive account of OpenDoc, OLE, Taligent and OpenStep. Packed with illustrations, soapboxes, cartoons and quotes.

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