Implementing Distributed Systems with Java and CORBA [Paperback]

This book provides graduate students and practitioners with knowledge of the CORBA standard and practical experience of implementing distributed systems with CORBA's Java mapping. With tested code examples that will run immediately!

Preliminaries.- Concepts of the CORBA Standard.- to the Interface Definition Language.- IDL to Java Mapping.- Important Elements of the ORB Runtime.- A First Example.- Generating Remote Objects.- Alternatives for Designing IDL Interfaces.- Inheritance and Polymorphism.- Implementing Distributed Callbacks.- Utilizing Value Types.- Utilizing Interfaces of the DynamicAny Module.- Dynamic Invocation Interface.- Dynamic Skeleton Interface.- Implementing Different POAs.- CORBA's Naming Service.- CORBA's Event Service.

From the reviews of the first edition:

The main attractive feature of this book resides from & providing a rather complete, compelling and self-explanatory presentation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard for distributed computing. & the book, is undoubtedly, remarkably useful to professional software developers, particularly for people involved in building networked systems. & the style is outstanding & . The book is self-contained & . The authors give a long series of illustrative examples to facilitate the understanding of different concepts & . (Tudor Balanescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1087, 2006)

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Provides knowledge of the CORBA standard and practical experience with implementing distributed systems with CORBA's Java mapping

With tested code examples that will run immediately!

The book addresses readers that are interested in the design and development of distributed software systems relying on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). CORBA is an industry standard that has considerably changed the way that modern information systems are developed. It enables the pl3;