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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc,US MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation
Aimed at the C++ programmer, <I>MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation</I> can get you up and running quickly with CORBA, a powerful standard for sharing objects in distributed systems. This book and software bundle includes a real, working version of a free Object Request Broker (ORB). Instead of paying thousands of dollars, this title may be all you need to succeed with distributed objects.<p> This tutorial book first explains the background, goals, and evolution of MICO over the past few years. Mini CORBA (MICO) was originally written as a tutorial for learning CORBA, but over the last few years this open source project has grown and has been recently certified as a real implementation of CORBA. <p> Early sections here cover the details of installing and compiling with the supplied MICO binaries and source code, on both UNIX/Linux and Windows. The text is good at the nitty-gritty details of what works and what doesn't. <p> Even if you don't plan to use it as a run-time platform, MICO is still a great way to learn CORBA, and this fast-moving tutorial can get you started. The authors explain the basics of defining interfaces for simple distributed objects with short, effective examples. Rather than go into an exhaustive treatment of all C++ mappings for CORBA's Interface Definition Language (IDL), this guide concentrates on potentially tricky areas, such as strings, arrays and the <I>Any</I> data type. For those readers who want to run MICO as their ORB, the authors also include tips for getting MICO to communicate with commercial ORB products from Iona and Inprise.<p> On the whole, MICO is another example of the strengths of the open source software initiative. Armed with this book and CD, any competent C++ programmer can start using CORBA successfully for real-world projects without paying hefty licensing fees. <I>--Richard Dragan, Amazon.com</I><p> <B>Topics covered</B>: Overview, design goals and evolution of MICO is CORBA (MICO), hardware and software requirements, installing binaries and sources, Common Object Request Architecture (CORBA) tutorial, introduction to Object Request Brokers (ORBs), the Basic Object Adapter (BOA) and Portable Object Adapter (POA) standards, options for activating servers, Interface Definition Language (IDL), tips for using IDL to C++ language mappings: strings, values, arrays, and interface inheritance; interoperability with the MICO, Iona Orbix and Inprise VisiBroker ORBs, using CORBA with Java applets, the CORBA Naming Service, viewing and editing the Interface Repository, and overview of the Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII).
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