JavaBeans Unleashed

Chapter 20. Corba IDL

In This Chapter

• CORBA's Main Points

• Building CORBA Applications

• Developing a Client Application

• Writing the Server Code

• Compiling and Running the Hello World Application

All source code for this chapter can be found on the Sams Publishing Website at http://www.mcp.com/info/0-672/0-672-31424-x.

The next wave in Internet innovation is distributed objects. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), defined by the Object Management Group (OMG), specifies how, without regard to client, server operating systems, or programming, software objects can work together when distributed over a network.

CORBA is a complete distributed object platform that extends applications across networks, languages, component boundaries, and ...