INTEGRATING CORBA AND COM APPLICATIONS
Michael Rosen and David Curtis
This new book provides a complete guide to building applications that
integrate both CORBA and COM technologies. The authors present a mixture
of theory, architecture and real world examples to explain the strengths
of each technology and how to use them together in an application. In-depth
technology comparisons and system design considerations provide architects
and system designers with the understanding they need to develop systems
that exploit the strengths of both technologies.
Extensive programming examples provide implementers with the details
they need to write ActiveX controls, Visual Basic and COM clients for
CORBA Server applications. The examples start the developer off by building
a simple client and become more involved to include using complex CORBA
objects from Visual Basic, integrating CORBA exceptions into native COM
mechanisms, implementing bi-directional integration and callbacks, and
building ActiveX controls as value added, reusable client components.
A must read for anybody designing or implementing a system using both
CORBA and COM.
