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Written for the experienced C++ developer facing real-world CORBA for the first time, Advanced CORBA Programming with C++ is a useful guide to today's most popular standard for distributed computing.

Full of working code, tutorials, and design trade-offs, this one-of-a-kind book:
  
  * Includes over 250 new pages on JavaBeans, CORBA Beans, and 
     Enterprise JavaBeans. Shows you how to invoke CORBA objects 
     from JavaBeans tools such as Visual Cafe, JBuilder, and Visual Age 
     for Java
  * Covers everything from simple ORB programming to exciting new 
     areas such as CORBA 3.0's POA, Object Pass-by-Value, IDL-to-Java, 
     and RMI-to-IIOP
  * Uses tutorials and client/server benchmarks to compare CORBA and 
     its competitors including Java/RMI, Java/DCOM, Sockets, HTTP/CGI, 
     and Servlets
  * Covers in detail Netscape's ORB: VisiBroker for Java 3.X; it shows    
     you how to use Caffeine to write CORBA/Java applications without 
     IDL
  * Provides a Debit-Credit benchmark for JDBC databases to compare 
     2-tier vs. 3-tier client/server solutions
  * Provides a JavaBeans version of Club Med-a Web-based, 3-tier 
     client/server application that uses CORBA, Java, and JDBC
  * Shows how to use CORBA's dynamic facilities such as callbacks, 
     dynamic invocations, object introspection, and the interface repository
  * Comes with a CD-ROM containing over 16 Java-based client/server 
     applications (and other goodies).

For today's distributed computing, the two biggest players are undoubtedly Microsoft DCOM and OMG CORBA. Evaluating which standard is best for your organization is the main objective of COM and CORBA Side by Side. Written for the IS manager or designer planning for distributed computing, this book provides a thorough introduction to these two difficult technologies while showing the strengths of each and even ways to let COM and CORBA work together on the enterprise.

The major strength of this book is its parallel presentation of key concepts of distributed computing using both DCOM and CORBA. The author shows how objects work under each standard and how to program with them using C++, Java, and Visual Basic (for DCOM only). (Short, useful code excerpts show the different programming techniques with each standard.) He explains how distributed computing works in general as well as the specifics and advantages of DCOM and CORBA for today's enterprise. (The basic differences remain--Microsoft is a proprietary standard with great development tools and little cross-platform support while CORBA is a strong cross-platform option with fewer options for development tools.) Throughout this book, the author offers several assessment guides for choosing which standard to adopt for your organization based on its needs.

CORBA is arguably the most mature standard for sharing objects, and version 3 offers an even richer array of features for powering the next generation of distributed systems. CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding and programming with CORBA. Mixing a high-level technology guide with an excellent hands-on tutorial for a sample project involving today's most popular ORBs, this title delivers a thorough and practical introduction to the latest in CORBA--suitable for beginner and expert alike.

PURE CORBA 3 is a premium, code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3 and contains:

  * conceptual overview of CORBA 3.
  * CORBA techniques programming reference that contains thousands 
     of lines of commercial-quality code examples in both C++ and Java 
     (the two most popular languages among CORBA developers).
  * concise reference to the most important parts of the specification

Distributed Object Architectures with CORBA is a guide to designing software comprised of distributed components. While it is based on OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard, the principles also apply to architecture built with other technology (such as Microsoft's DCOM). As ORB products evolve to incorporate new additions to CORBA, the knowledge and experience required to build stable and scalable systems is not widespread. With this volume the reader can develop the skills and knowledge that are necessary for building such systems. The book assumes a familiarity with object-oriented concepts and the basics of CORBA. Software developers who are new to building systems with CORBA-based technologies will find this a useful guide to effective development.

The leading guide for Java developers who build business applications with CORBA.

Acknowledged experts present advanced techniques and real-world examples for building both simple and complex programs using Java with CORBA. The authors begin with a quick overview of CORBA, Java, object request brokers (ORBs), and EJB components, then quickly move on to show how to use them to build complete Java applications. This new volume features in-depth code examples, as well as expanded coverage of cutting-edge topics, including Portable Object Adaptor (POA), Remote Method Invocation (RMI) over IIOP, and EJB.

Last update on July 12, 2012