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Book SynopsisWolfgang Emmerich Engineering Distributed Objects The pay-offs for creating distributed applications are in achieving portability, scalability and fault-tolerance. In order to simplify building software that performs robustly regardless of platform or network infrastructure, a new strata of 'middleware' has been created.
Trade Review"recommend..." --CVu, April 2001 "This remarkable book tackles distributed systems in relation to object-orientation and middle-ware. Anyone designing systems today should have a copy of this book on the shelf." --Computer Bulletin ...Book of the Month, May 2001
Table of ContentsCONCEPTS.
Distributed Systems.
Designing Distributed Objects.
MIDDLEWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS.
Principles of Object-Oriented Middleware.
CORBA, COM and Java/RMI.
Resolving Heterogeneity.
Dynamic Object Requests.
COMMON DESIGN PROBLEMS.
Advanced Communication between Distributed Objects.
Locating Distributed Objects.
Life Cycle of Distributed Objects.
Object Persistence.
Distributed Object Transactions.
Security.
A Full CORBA C++ Implementation of Soccer Example.
Bibliography.
Index.
