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Table of contents

• Availability and Copyright
  • Availability
  • Copyright
  • Trademarks
• Dedication
• Preface
  • Intended Audience
  • How to Read this Book
  • About the Author
  • About the Contributing Author
  • Disclaimer
  • Acknowledgments

Part I Introduction to CORBA

• Core Concepts and Terminology
  • Object Management Group (OMG)
  • CORBA
  • Client and Server
  • Interface Definition Language (IDL)
  • Interoperable Object Reference (IOR)
  • CORBA Services
• Benefits of CORBA
  • Maturity
  • Open standard
  • Wide platform support
  • Wide language support
  • Efficiency
  • Scalability
  • CORBA Success Stories

Part II Application Development

• Development of CORBA Applications
  • Development of a Traditional Application
  • Development of a CORBA Application
  • Critique of CORBA Application Development
  • Miscellaneous Notes
• The Naming Service
  • Basic Concepts
  • Imperfections in the IDL
  • Practical Usage of the Naming Service
• Concepts for Server-side Programming
  • Object
  • Servant
  • Why are Object and Servant Different Concepts?
  • Object Adapters
  • Portable Object Adapter (POA)
  • Different Kinds of POA
  • POA Managers
• POA Policies
  • Available POA Policies
  • Creating Policy Objects and POAs

Part III Application Deployment

• Implementation Repository (IMR)
  • Introduction
  • IMR Concepts
  • Examples of Implementation Repositories
  • Comparison of Different IMRs
• Deploying CORBA Applications
  • Deploying CORBA Clients
  • Deploying CORBA Servers
  • The Naming Service and the IMR

Part IV CORBA Infrastructure

• More Details on IDL
  • Pseudo-IDL, local and native types
  • Objects By Value (OBV)
  • Versioning
  • Repository IDs
  • Miscellaneous New Keywords
• Interoperable Object Reference (IOR)
  • Introduction
  • IDL Definition of an IOR
  • Proxy
• On-the-wire Protocols
  • GIOP, IIOP and the Protocol Stack
  • Marshaling IDL Types
  • GIOP Message Types
  • GIOP Redirection
  • Active Connection Management (ACM)
  • Service Contexts
  • Codeset Negotiation
  • Bidirectional GIOP/IIOP
• The corbaloc and corbaname URLs
  • Introduction
  • The corbaloc URL
  • The corbaname URL
  • Architectural Support for corbaloc
  • Bootstrapping Interoperability Problems
• Current Objects
  • The Concept of Thread-local Data
  • Current Objects Provide Thread-local Data
• Portable Interceptors
  • IOR Interceptors
  • Request Interceptors
  • The PICurrent Object
• Meta-information Programming
  • What is Meta-information Programming?
  • TypeCodes and the Interface Repository
  • The any and DynAny Types
  • Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)
  • Dynamic Server Interface (DSI)
• CORBA Messaging
  • Quality of Service (Policy Objects)
  • Asynchronous Messaging Interface (AMI)
  • Time Independent Invocations (TII)
  • Further Reading
• Proprietary Fault Tolerance
  • Basic Issues in Fault Tolerance
  • Example Products
  • Miscellaneous Issues
• CORBA Fault Tolerance
  • Terminology and Basic Infrastructure
  • Writing CORBA-FT Servers
  • CORBA-FT Support in Clients
  • Logging and Recovery Infrastructure
  • Fault Notifiers
  • Critique
• Other CORBA Infrastructure
  • Real-time CORBA
  • CORBA for Embedded Systems
  • CORBA Component Model (CCM)

Part V CORBA Services

• Trading Service
  • The ServiceTypeRepository Interface
  • The Register Interface
  • The Lookup Interface
  • Other Capabilities of the Trading Service
  • Using the Trading Service
  • Quality of Service
• Object Transaction Service
  • Associating CORBA Objects with Database Records
  • Per-operation Transactions
  • Overview of Distributed Transactions
  • CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS)
  • The Raw API of OTS
  • How OTS Builds on Top of Other Parts of CORBA
• Publish and Subscribe Services
  • What is Publish and Subscribe?
  • Event Service
  • Notification Service
  • Telecom Log Service
• Security
  • Features of CORBASEC
  • CORBASEC Conformance Levels
  • Issues Not Covered by CORBASEC
  • Evaluating CORBASEC Implementations
  • Final Comments
  • Further Reading
• Services not Discussed in this Book
  • Persistent State Service (PSS)
  • Other CORBA Services and Domain Specifications

Part VI Final Issues

• Portability of CORBA Applications
  • CORBA Portability Issues
  • Non-CORBA Portability Issues with C++
• Other CORBA Resources
  • Books and Articles
  • The CORBA Utilities Package
  • Internet Resources
  • Consultancy and Training Courses
• References