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Programming with Enterprise
JavaBeans, JTS, and OTS

Building Distributed Transactions with Java and C++

Andreas Vogel and Madhavan Rangarao

About the Authors

Andreas Vogel

    Andreas Vogel is a Strategic Technology Advisor with Inprise Corporation since January 1997. In this position, he works with customers, mostly Fortune 500 companies, on CORBA and EJB solutions for their distributed computing needs, as well as in Inprise's research and development division. In his two-plus years with Visigenic, Borland, and Inprise, Andreas has been involved in more than 40 different projects spawning over almost all industry sectors.
    Prior to this appointment he worked as Principal Research Scientist with the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, Australia and as a Research Scientist for the University of Montreal, Canada. He has worked on various topics in the area of distributed computing including Formal Description Techniques, Distributed Middleware (DCE, CORBA, and EJB), Distributed Multimedia, and Quality of Service.
    Andreas regularly publishes and speaks on distributed computing topics. He co-authored "Java  Programming with CORBA", which is now in its 2nd edition, and "C++ Programming with CORBA". Andreas holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany. Andreas lives with his wife Dorit Hillmann and daughter Meta Hillmann in San Francisco and enjoys cycling to the office in San Mateo.
Madhavan Rangarao 
    Madhavan Rangarao is a Senior Architect at TIBCO Software, a pioneer and leading provider of Enterprise Application Integration and messaging middleware system solutions. Prior to this appointment, he led the core development effort of the Inprise ITS Object Transaction Service. While he was at Sybase Inc., he was one of the key contributors to their distributed transaction management strategy for the SQL Server. Madhavan has been developing distributed transaction management system solutions for the past nine years and specializes in CORBA-based distributed object computing. 
    He holds an MS in Computer Science from University of South Florida at Tampa. He loves to tinker any electronic gadgets in his sight and enjoys scenic photography.
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ISBN 0-471-31972-4
368 pages
May, 1999

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