Table of Contents

CORBA: THE INTERGALACTIC FOUNDATION. Client/Server, CORBA-Style. The Object Web: CORBA Meets Java. Meet the CORBA/Java ORBs. ORB FUNDAMENTALS. The Static CORBA. The Dynamic CORBA. The Existential CORBA. Metadata: Who Am I? CORBA SERVICES. CORBA Services: Naming, Life Cycle, and Events. CORBA Services: Object Trader. CORBA Services: Transactions and Concurrency. CORBA Services: Object Security. CORBA Services: Persistence and Externalization. CORBA Services: Query and Collections. CORBA Services: Object Relationships and Time. CORBA Services: Licensing and Properties. CORBA: WHAT'S NEXT? CORBA ORBs: The State of the Union. CORBA: The Next Generation. The Object Web II Vision. Where to Go for More Information. Index.

About the Author

Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey are distributed object consultants for IBM. They also head the CORBA/Java Distributed Objects MS Program and Lab at San Jose State University. Jeri Edwards is the VP of Strategy and Product Planning at BEA Systems-the makers of Tuxedo.