Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA by Robert Orfali

Description

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

Editorial Review

The standard by which all other CORBA books are judged, Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA is the book to read if you're thinking about doing anything with this language- bridging technology. Working toward the Object Web, a computing phenomenon in which the Internet is full of code modules that users can assemble in many different ways to suit their needs, Orfali and Harkey explain the Common Object Request Brokerage Architecture (CORBA), which goes a long way toward realizing that goal. This book is the single best CORBA resource available anywhere. Appropriately enough, the book opens with a comparison of the client/server architectures of Java and CORBA. It then goes on to cover dynamic invocations of CORBA objects. There's a discussion of the trade-offs involved in choosing among sockets, HTTP/CGI, remote method invocation (RMI), and CORBA/IIOP, complete with a table that compares the features of all the competitors. The authors then explore the relative advantages and disadvantages of two- and three-tier database query systems under JDBC. The book concludes with a fully implemented client/server transaction-handling system. The authors' prose and code is lucid and complete, and all of the numerous code samples appear on the companion CD-ROM.