Contents at a Glance

Part 1. CORBA Meets Java   60 Pages
Part 2. Core CORBA/Java   52 Pages
Part 3. The Dynamic CORBA    70 Pages
Part 4. CORBA and Its Competitors 198 Pages
Part 5. The Existential CORBA 138 Pages
Part 6. JDBC: 2 Tier Versus 3-Tier 132 Pages
Part 7. From JavaBeans to Enterprise JavaBeans 234 Pages
Part 8. The Grand Finale: Club Med with CORBA/JavaBeans   88 Pages
                      
 
 

What This Book Covers

Whether you're a seasoned Java programmer, a distributed objects expert, or looking to be a little of both, this Second Edition of the enormously popular Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA gives you the programming know-how you need to combine these two technologies into workable client/server solutions for the Object Web. Full of working code, tutorials, and design tradeoffs, this one-of-a-kind book: 
  • Includes over 250 new pages on JavaBeans, CORBAbeans, and Enterprise JavaBeans.  Shows you how to invoke CORBA objects from JavaBean tools such as Visual Cafe, JBuilder, and VisualAge for Java.
  • Covers everything from simple ORB programming to exciting new areas such as CORBA's 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, and HTTP/CGI, and Servlets. 
  • Covers in detail Netscape's ORB: VisiBroker for Java; 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). 
 
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ISBN: 0471-24578-X, 1020 pages, 1998, $49.99 US, $70.50 CAN