Instant CORBA

by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards

Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Web-or the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companies-including Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HP-have chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP.

Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding this revolutionary new technology. If you're in a real hurry, this book even provides a condensed tour that will make you CORBA literate in four hours or less.

Written in a friendly and witty style, this comprehensive book
* The Object Web-or how CORBA/IIOP, Java, and the Internet are coming together
* Everything you need to know about a CORBA 2.0 ORB
* The 15 CORBA Object Services-including Transactions, Trader, Security, Naming, Events, Time, and Collections. These services provide the next step in the evolution of distributed objects.
* CORBA's Dynamic Object Facilities such as Callbacks, Dynamic Invocations, Object Introspection, and the Interface Repository
* Next-generation ORB technology-including CORBA 3.0's. Messaging, Pass-by-Value, and Server-Side Frameworks
* The marriage of CORBA with MOM and TP Monitors
* Forthcoming CORBA attractions such as mobile agents, shippable places, and the business object framework
* Products such as Iona's OrbixWeb, Netscape/Visigenic's VisiBroker, and Sun's NEO/JOE.

The authors have written many best-selling books, including The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide and The Essential Client/Server

Survival Guide, Second Edition, which won Software Development's Jolt Award for the best book of 1994, in its first edition. Their most recent book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA.

336 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Orfali and his soulmate of thirty years, Jeri, were both in the computer software field in the early days of Silicon Valley. They co-authored three best-selling software books and went together on several world tours to promote their technology. Jeri was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, in 1999, shortly after they moved to Hawaii. Jeri and Robert spent the next 10 years fighting Jeri's cancer and learning how to live with it. Jeri even learned how to surf during her chemo years. She went from "Silicon Valley Executive Woman of the Year” to "Waikiki Surfer Chick." Jeri received one of the most moving surfer funerals ever. Her ashes are in the ocean at Waikiki.

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many years ago, I was offered the opportunity to teach a course in CORBA to a major local employer in their contract training program. While I knew CORBA, it was necessary to do an intense and very speedy refresher. This is the book that I selected for that operation.
The book is very easy to read and understand, provided of course you are well-schooled in the principles of object-oriented programming and remote/distributed computing. With that as a background, you will have no difficulty in understanding the principles of CORBA. The presentation is language-neutral, so your specific language of coding will not be an impediment. Of course, if you want to be told what to do in a specific language such as Java, then it is necessary to look elsewhere.
Although the content is of course very dated, I can still recommend this book as an excellent explanation of how computing tasks can be organized and delegated.