MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

MICO is a complete implementation of CORBA, the dominant standard for distributed application development. This book shows you how to build and manage your own professional, industrial-strength CORBA applications using MICO, and includes a CD with compiled binaries for various platforms along with the complete source code.

One of the most successful examples of open source development, MICO is the collaborative result of hundreds of independent programmers working together to modify and improve the initial source code. Here is a practical, affordable introduction to building distributed applications.

* MICO 2.3.2
* Implements and discusses many features missing from commercial products, including BOA, POA, Value Type Semantics, DynAny, IIOP, IIOP over SSL and much more.
* Contains the implementations of several CORBA services: naming, event, trading, relationship, property and time service.
* Includes step-by-step instructions on how to change a standalone C++ application into a distributed application using MICO.
* Is fully interoperable with other CORBA implementations, such as Orbix from Iona, Visibroker from Inprise, and Sun's JDK.
* Contains a graphical Java interface to interact with CORBA objects on the fly during runtime.

On the CD
* Precompiled binaries for: Linux, Windows 95/98/NT, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
* Complete source code for creating your own CORBA implementations published under the GNU General Public License. Subsequent versions will be available at www.mico.org.
* Sample applications built using MICO code, including source code for programs detailed in several popular books on CORBA development.

Arno Puder received his master's degree in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern and his Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. After working for Deutsche Telekom AG and AT&T Labs, he is currently a professor of computer science at San Francisco State University. His special interests include distributed systems and wireless sensor networks.

Kay Römer is currently a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from ETH with a thesis on sensor networks. Kay holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. His research interests encompass sensor networks, software infrastructures for ubiquitous computing, and middleware for distributed systems.