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. This book provides a conceptual framework within which to describe object-oriented middleware for the integration of distributed objects. UML is used to explain distributed systems concepts. Presenting both an extended case study and smaller illustrative examples, there are plenty of coded examples in Java, C++, CORBA IDL and Microsoft IDL, which reflect the reality of today's multi-language heterogeneous systems. This is a book for developers who are new to programming in distributed environments. It also supports a variety of courses where the central theme is object-oriented development with middleware technologies. The book shows the middleware concepts and principles using examples taken from: * OMG/CORBA * Microsoft COM * Java/RMI On the accompanying website (http://www.distributed-objects.com) are exercises, sample solutions and working code for the examples. This site is also designed for instructors to assist them with course development and delivery.

About the Author

Wolfgang Emmerich is the author of Engineering Distributed Objects, published by Wiley.

Reviews

"... 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,May 2001; Book of the Month)

Book Information
ISBN 9780471986577
Author Wolfgang Emmerich
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 851g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 196mm * 27mm