COM-CORBA Interoperability [Paperback]

Ronan Geraghty (Author), Sean Joyce (Author), Gary Noone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 1998 | Series: Prentice Hall Series on Microsoft Technologies

To make distributed objects work in a heterogeneous environment, developers must bridge the gap between Microsoft's COM/DCOM and the industry CORBA standard. This is the first complete, up-to-date guide to doing so. It starts with easy-to-understand descriptions of both COM and CORBA, exploding the myth of complexity that surrounds these technologies. Next, it delivers a step-by-step guide to building your own working, scalable and transparent COM/CORBA systems, integrating Windows and UNIX. The CD-ROM includes MS-Access source code for all examples, plus trial versions of IONA's Orbix COMet, the first commercial bridge for linking COM and CORBA modules, and OrbixWEB 3.0 tools for building Internet-based CORBA Server applications.

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If interoperability of Microsoft's Common Object Model and OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture is your concern yet remains murky to you, you might as well stop reading this review right now and go buy the book. The authors are the architects of Iona's COMet COM-CORBA bridge. They've done it, they understand it, and they explain it very well.

COM-CORBA Interoperability comes with a CD-ROM containing a trial version of Iona's Orbix object request broker, COMet, and source code for demonstration applications providing interoperation of COM and CORBA entities. The code runs on Windows 95/NT with the DCOM 1.1 upgrade installed. Examples come already compiled; to recompile the examples from the source, you'll need Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 for the C++ examples and Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 for the Basic examples.

Perhaps the finest aspect of this book is that the authors explain the architectural challenge faced in creating COMet in sufficient detail. Reading the discussion allows one to visualize pretty clearly the lines of the solution without immersing oneself in the actual product.

Thus, for the purely application-centric reader faced with real-world problems and a deadline, the answers and the tools are present and complete. For the theorist and senior architect, a quick flipping of the pages brings one up to speed on the problem domain and provides several satisfactory solution scenarios. --Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Dr. Dobb's Journal

From the Back Cover

The complete solution for Windows/UNIX/MVS/Web integration!

Authors are among the world's leading experts in COM-CORBA integration and were co-authors of the OMG COM/CORBA interworking specification

Practical, real-world explanations of both COM/DCOM and CORBA

Perfect for both experienced and new developers of distributed software

Integrate Microsoft's COM/DCOM and CORBA distributed objects-step by step!

To make distributed objects work in a heterogeneous environment, developers must bridge the gap between Microsoft's Common Object Model (COM) and the industry Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. COM-CORBA Interoperability is the first complete, up-to-date guide to linking COM/DCOM and CORBA.

You'll start with easy-to-understand explanations of COM and CORBA that explode the myth of complexity that surrounds distributed object technology. Next, COM-CORBA Interoperability presents step-by-step coverage of how to build a working, scalable, and transparent COM/CORBA system that integrates Windows and the world's most popular platforms.

As developers who built the industry's #1 COM-CORBA integration software, the authors are among the world's top experts in the field. With COM-CORBA Interoperability, you can leverage their expertise to build the distributed, Web-based, enterprise-wide applications today's leading-edge companies are clamoring for!

CD-ROM Included

The accompanying CD-ROM contains full source code for a working application that is referenced throughout the book, code for all examples, plus evaluation copies of Orbix for C++, Orbix COM and OrbixWEB 3.0, the industry's leading COM/CORBA integration products. With OrbixWEB, you can develop fully-functional CORBA Server applications for deployment anywhere on the Internet. And with Orbix COMet, you can develop CORBA client-side software using VB, PowerBuilder, Microsoft ASPs, or any COM or OLE Automation-aware environment!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (December 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130962775
• ISBN-13: 978-0130962775
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,212,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars COM-CORBA Interoperability, December 23, 1999

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sanjay kulgod (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: COM-CORBA Interoperability (Paperback)

Very disappointed with the book. The main attraction for me buying the book was the evaluation CD it is accompanied with. Unfortunately, one has to procure the license key from IONA Technologies for the ORBIX intallation. I have sent several emails to IONA regarding this but have not heard anything for days. What a waste of my money!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The title should be: How to use IONA's COMet, November 10, 1999

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Roland Barcia (North Bergen, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: COM-CORBA Interoperability (Paperback)

This book only helps if you use IONA's COMet to bridge. It tells you nothing useful about the two technologies, and like IONA, is way behind on the CORBA specs.