IIOP Complete: Middleware Interoperability and Distributed Object Standards (Object Technology Series)

"A thorough, detailed reference, indispensable for architects, developers and integrators alike." --Richard Soley, Object Management Group, Inc.

The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) is the most broadly known and critical subset of the OMG's widely accepted CORBA standard. IIOP is quickly gaining acceptance among object technology practitioners, and support for IIOP is becoming a standard product attribute for most software vendors. Designed to allow disparate software components to communicate with one another, IIOP ensures interoperability on top of the most popular communications protocol in use today--TCP/IP.

IIOP is also at the core of the next wave of technologies all CORBA, Java, and Web developers will rely on to build interoperable objects for the enterprise more easily. IIOP is now also part of the core Java 2 platform, and IIOP Complete helps the Java developer understand how to use this capability. This book offers extensive coverage of IIOP specifics, including CDR, HTTP-NG message protocol patterns, message stream patterns, and object adapter patterns. Discussions of such special topics as IIOP security, building interoperable solutions, and Web and Java integration provide application builders working with CORBA a definitive resource on this important communications mechanism.

William Ruh is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concept Five Technologies, where he helps companies rapidly develop secure electronic commerce and business applications by applying distributed object and messaging technologies. He is also the co-author of Inside CORBA (Addison-Wesley, 1997).

Thomas Herron is co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is chief architect of the "Dreadnought" CORBA security product. He also consults on distributed object architecture and security.

Paul Klinker is a co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is currently doing CORBA security development and consulting. He has written articles on object-based computing for Object magazine, Nikkei magazine, and The Motif Zone.

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