Developing Business Systems with CORBA with CD-ROM: The Key to Enterprise Integration

by Waqar Sadiq, Fred A. Cummins

Overview

Developing Business Systems with CORBA guides developers, programmers, and software managers through the development of object-oriented, distributed business systems using CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). CORBA allows vendors to provide compatible components for the implementation of distributed systems in heterogeneous environments involving multiple operating systems and programming languages. The authors use their experience as developers, trainers and mentors to provide a solid understanding of CORBA technology by examining a realistic example system. They introduce concepts and terminology and lead up to a strategic architecture for distributed objects computing. They present CORBA in detail while introducing the reader to project management issues and the requirements for a business objects facility to integrate CORBA components and provide an abstraction for application development. Later chapters explore design issues, programming, and incorporating product features. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a demonstration application and a copy of the Enterprise Business Objects Facility (EBOF) developed at EDS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521646505
Publisher:	SIGS
Publication date:	04/28/1998
Series:	SIGS: Managing Object Technology Series , #13
Edition description:	BK&CD ROM
Pages:	287
Product dimensions:	6.97(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

PartT I. CONCEPTS AND METHODS: 1. Introduction to distributed objects technology; 2. Distributed objects strategy; 3. CORBA - an overview; 4. Planning and managing development projects; Part II. ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING: 5. The business object facility (BOF); 6. Design issues; 7. Programming CORBA objects; Part III. TOOLS AND VENDOR COMPONENTS: 8. The Orbix Object Request Broker; 9. Application component libraries; Appendix A. Case Study; Appendix B. Interface Definitions; Appendix C. Object Model; Appendix D. Interface Model; Glossary; Application code.