Java and CORBA are merging in cyberspace. Here′s your complete guide to navigating this previously uncharted territory.
Whether you′re a seasoned Java programmer, a distributed objects expert, or looking to be a little bit of both, 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 trade–offs, this one–of–a–kind book:
- Covers everything from simple ORBs to object activation
- Uses tutorials and a client/server benchmark to compare CORBA and its competitors including Java/RMI, Java/DCOM, Sockets, and HTTP/CGI
- Explains in detail Netscape′s ORB: VisiBroker for Java and shows you how to use Caffeine to write CORBA/Java applications without IDL
- Provides a Debit–Credit benchmark for JDBC databases used to compare 2–tier vs. 3–tier client/server solutions
- Includes a Web–based Club Med client/server application using CORBA, Java, JDBC, and applets
- Shows you how to use CORBA′s dynamic facilities such as callbacks, dynamic invocations, object introspection, and the interface repository
- Compares the performance of C++ ORBs with Java ORBs
- Includes a CD–ROM with over 15 Java–based client/server applications