The Essential CORBA: Systems Integration Using Distributed Objects [Hardcover]

Thomas J. Mowbray (Author), Ron Zahavi (Author)

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Publication Date: August 1995 | ISBN-10: 0471106119 | ISBN-13: 978-0471106111 | Edition: 1

Explains the rationale, object-oriented principles and engineering strategies in order to design, utilize and establish a successful CORBA-based structure. Demonstrates how the technology can readily accommodate heterogeneous combinations of platforms, R&D prototypes as well as legacy and commercial software. Describes how these techniques and tactics are effective within organizations and across federated communities of software suppliers and consumers.

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Explains the rationale, object-oriented principles and engineering strategies in order to design, utilize and establish a successful CORBA-based structure. Demonstrates how the technology can readily accommodate heterogeneous combinations of platforms, R&D prototypes as well as legacy and commercial software. Describes how these techniques and tactics are effective within organizations and across federated communities of software suppliers and consumers.

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A step-by-step guide to successful CORBA-based systems integration--what every systems designer needs to know to assure interoperability

The Essential CORBA is the only book available that deals with the application of CORBA specifications to systems development. It provides in-depth coverage of what every systems developer needs to know in order to establish a CORBA-based framework for the development of workable, distributed, object-oriented applications.

Written by experts in object-based systems, this valuable book clearly and precisely covers:
* Theory and principles of standard object-technology, including CORBA, systems architecture integration frameworks, and Object Management Group (OMG) standards
* Methods and techniques for establishing an effective CORBA-based framework
* Object-wrapping techniques, including examples of commonly encountered problems
* Strategies for software reuse and rapid application development
* Assessment methods for current systems in place, and the benefits to the organization of improved system integration
* Strategies for accommodating heterogeneous mixtures of platforms, legacy software, commercial software, and R&D prototypes
* Design concepts for any type of system--custom built, component based, or one that incorporates elements of both--that encourage nonreliance on commercial software vendors
* Questions of security in the context of systems integration
* Product overviews for major CORBA object request brokers

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471106119
• ISBN-13: 978-0471106111
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,999,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent summary of architectural constructs, April 8, 1997

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This review is from: The Essential CORBA: Systems Integration Using Distributed Objects (Hardcover)

Despite some distracting professor-speak, which belies
a lack of practical or real-world experience with
programming, the book does provide an execellent
architectural view of CORBA for experienced professionals with some exposure to Object Oriented tools and techniques (anything from C++ to PowerBuilder).
Weak perhaps on commercial tools and actual implementations, the book is strong on the case for the destributed objects paradigm and component-ware
approach. I enjoyed it (but wrote furiously in the margins.
Example: author elaborates objecti-orientation using a "TV set" metopher that I found completing unenlightening.

0 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Want to know more, October 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Essential CORBA: Systems Integration Using Distributed Objects (Hardcover)

Can more people review this book? I am very interested in this book, but I can't find it in the bookstore. I read "Inside COBRA" and "CORBA Design Patterns", and I want to know whether this book offers something beyond the other books. Sorry that I have to give "3 stars" to the book even though I haven't read it -- I can't post a message without the rating.