Introduction to CORBA

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Introduction to the architecture and specification of the Common Object Request Broker.

• Introduction

• OMG and OMA
• CORBA
• OMA
• CORBA, IIOP

• Why Choose CORBA?

• The ORB Layer

• OMG IDL

• Characteristics of IDL
• IDL Keywords
• IDL’s Idiosyncracies
• User Defined Exceptions
• CORBA Standard Exceptions
• Language Bindings

• Static Invocation

• Client Stubs and Server Skeletons
• Study of an application that uses static invocation
• Deployment of an application that uses static invocation
• Outline of a client application that uses static invocation
• Object Implementation

• Dynamic Invocation

• Introduction to Dynamic Invocation
• Dynamic Invocation Scenaria
• The Need for Dynamic Invocation
• Outline of a Dynamic Invocation Call
• Dynamic Invocation Scenaria
• Deployment of an application that uses dynamic invocation
• Outline of a client application that uses dynamic invocation

• Interface Repositories

• Implementation Repositories

• Object Adapters

• Object Adapter Architectural Context
• POA vs. BOA
• POA Related Terminology
• Functionality of a POA
• Object Factories

• Object Services

• Trading Object Service
• Naming Service
• Life Cycle Service
• Relationship Service
• Externalization Service
• Property Service
• Query Service
• Object Collection Service
• Time Service
• Concurrency Service
• Transaction Service
• Event Service
• Security Service
• Licensing Service

• Common Facilities

• Horizontal CORBA Facilities
• Vertical CORBA Facilities

• Interoperability

• The Notion of Domain
• Immediate Bridging
• Mediated Bridging

• Interworking

• CORBA and DCE
• CORBA and OLE/(D)COM/ActiveX
• CORBA and OLE Automation

• Building a CORBA Application

• Design
• Client Side
• Object Implementation Side

• Future Developments

• CORBA 3.0
• Real-Time CORBA
• Embedded Systems - Minimum CORBA

• Review

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