IIOP Complete
Understanding CORBA and Middleware Interoperability
Published on 8. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-201-37925-9 (ISBN)
Description
"A thorough, detailed reference, indispensable for architects, developers and integrators alike." --Richard Soley, Object Management Group, Inc. The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) is the most broadly known and critical subset of the OMG's widely accepted CORBA standard. IIOP is quickly gaining acceptance among object technology practitioners, and support for IIOP is becoming a standard product attribute for most software vendors. Designed to allow disparate software components to communicate with one another, IIOP ensures interoperability on top of the most popular communications protocol in use today--TCP/IP. IIOP is also at the core of the next wave of technologies all CORBA, Java, and Web developers will rely on to build interoperable objects for the enterprise more easily. IIOP is now also part of the core Java 2 platform, and IIOP Complete helps the Java developer understand how to use this capability. This book offers extensive coverage of IIOP specifics, including CDR, HTTP-NG message protocol patterns, message stream patterns, and object adapter patterns.Discussions of such special topics as IIOP security, building interoperable solutions, and Web and Java integration provide application builders working with CORBA a definitive resource on this important communications mechanism.
0201379252B04062001
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-37925-9 (9780201379259)
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Persons
William Ruh is CTO and senior vice president of services and solutions at Software AG. A frequent presenter at technical conferences, he testified before the U.S. Senate as an expert witness on technology.
Thomas Herron is co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is chief architect of the "Dreadnought" CORBA security product. He also consults on distributed object architecture and security.
Paul Klinker is a co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is currently doing CORBA security development and consulting. He has written articles on object-based computing for Object magazine, Nikkei magazine, and The Motif Zone.
Thomas Herron is co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is chief architect of the "Dreadnought" CORBA security product. He also consults on distributed object architecture and security.
Paul Klinker is a co-founder of Phalanx Technologies Incorporated, where he is currently doing CORBA security development and consulting. He has written articles on object-based computing for Object magazine, Nikkei magazine, and The Motif Zone.
Content
List of Figures and Tables. Foreword. Preface. I. IIOP AND MIDDLEWARE BASICS. An Introduction to IIOP. The Internet-ORB Protocol. A Quick Peek at IIOP. The Role of IIOP in Software. What You Will Learn from This Book. 2. Middleware and IIOP. Enterprises Require Middleware Infrastructure. Middleware Requirements. Interoperability Design Issues. Addressing Middleware Interoperability. Comparing and Contrasting Middleware. Database Access Middleware. Remote Procedure Calls. Transaction Processing Monitors. Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM). Distributed Object Middleware. Middleware and Interoperability: Critical to the Enterprise. II. GIOP AND IIOP STANDARD. 3. The Process of Creating the IIOP Standard. The OMG Process. Setting the Stage for Standardization. Interoperability Considerations. The CORBA 2.0 Solution. The Challenges and Benefits of Consensus. 4. General Inter-ORB Protocol. Introduction to GIOP. The CDR. Object Addressing. Marshalling. The CDR and Streams. TypeCodes in CDR. GIOP's Transport Requirements. OSI and GIOP. What Is a Connection? Closing a Connection. Details on GIOP Messages. GIOP Messages in Detail. Final Thoughts on GIOP. 5. Internet Inter-ORB Protocol. Introduction to IIOP. Connecting Client and Server. Code Sets. Example of an IOR. Final Thoughts on IIOP. 6. Vendors' Approaches to IIOP and Interoperability. The Reality of IIOP and Interoperability. Location Independence and IORs. Inprise's VisiBroker. Iona's Orbix. Object Oriented Concept's OmniBroker. Interoperability between Different ORBs. Interoperability from IIOP. 7. Emerging Corba Specifications and IIOP. Requirements of the Next Generation. CORBA Messaging. Pass by Value. Firewall Security. Adapting to Continuous Change. III. ADVANCED MIDDLEWARE INTEROPERABILITY. 8. IIOP and Security. Introduction to SECIOP. Distributed Security Considerations and Requirements. Encryption and Authentication Technology. CORBA Security and SECIOP. Security as a Critical Requirement for Business Critical Systems. 9. Java, HTTP, and IIOP. The Relationship of IIOP to Java and HTTP. Communication between Objects in Java. Using HTTP For Web Communications. The Future of Object Interoperability. 10. CORBA's Distributed Object Interoperability Architecture. IIOP and Object Interoperability. The Need to Understand Interoperability in the Architecture. Key Considerations in Distributed Object Architecture. A Scenario for Interoperable Distributed Object Systems. Summary of IIOP and Interoperability. Appendix A. GIOP Messages. Appendix B. Typecode Encoding. Appendix C. IIOP Specialization. Appendix D. Guide to Online Resources. Bibliography. Acronyms. Index.