CORBA programming unleashed

Table of contents :

Introduction ..... 1
Part I: The Core Aarchitecture ..... 5

Chapter 1: CORBA 2.0: An Architecture for Interoperability ..... 7
Chapter 2: HOP and E-Commerce ..... 35
Chapter 3: The Portable Object Adapter ..... 103

Part II: IDL Language Mapping ..... 121

Chapter 4: CORBA Object References and Smart Pointer ..... 123
Chapter 5: Javi/IDL Mapping ..... 135
Chapter 6: CORBA C++ Memory Management ..... 165

Part III: Common Services ..... 181

Chapter 7: The Naming Service ..... 193
Chapter 8: The Trader Service ..... 197
Chapter 9: The Event Service ..... 211
Chapter 10: The Transaction Service ..... 235
Chapter 11: The Security Service ..... 259

Part IV: Vendor Extensions and Implementation Issues ..... 271

Chapter 12: CORBA Server Activation Modes ..... 273
Chapter 13: Orbix Filters ..... 295
Chapter 14: CORBA and Threads ..... 309
Chapter 15: Orbix Dynamic Loaders ..... 327
Chapter 16: Distributed Callbacks ..... 347
Chapter 17: VisiBroker Caffeine ..... 367
Chapter 18: VisiBroker SmartStubs ..... 381
Chapter 19: Handling Distributed Events ..... 395
Chapter 20: VisiBroker Interceptors ..... 407

Part V: CORBA Integration and Interfaces ..... 423

Chapter 21: CORBA and Java ServIets ..... 425
Chapter 22: CORBA and Mobile Agents ..... 441
Chapter 23: CORBA and Design Patterns ..... 453
Chapter 24: CORBA Interface Repository ..... 473
Chapter 25: CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interfaces ..... 489
Chapter 26: Developing CORBABean Wrappers ..... 513

Part VI: Appendixes ..... 533

Appendix A: CORBA API Reference ..... 535
Appendix B: TIE and BOA ..... 543
Appendix C: Orbix and WC ..... 549

Index ..... 555