Object Web Survival Guide

by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards

The marriage of distributed objects and the Web is where enterprise computing is heading. And the battle lines have already been drawn, with Microsoft's COM/DCOM and ActiveX platform vying with CORBA and Java/Java Beans, the choice of Sun, JavaSoft, Netscape, IBM and others. Both sides of these object wars are explored in this book, which describes the benefits and drawbacks of each component and offers strong opinions on the merits of each platform.

672 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 1998

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.