This book is a comprehensive guide to Java distributed computing. It assumes the reader is an experienced Java programming, but has little experience with network programming and distributed objects. This book covers networking, distributed computing architectures, advanced Java facilities, security, data management, and specific distributed computing techniques including sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java servlets, Microsoft's Distributed Component Model (DCOM), and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). This book covers all these protocols, gives advice on when to use each protocol, and demonstrates how they work (or don't work) together. Comprehensive and professional approach to building Java distributed objects with CORBA/IIOP, RMI, IDL, and COM/DCOM Extremely practical, hands-on book that contains concise descriptions of the theory, complete applications, and thousands of lines of proven, real-world Java code Authors Bill McCarty and Luke Cassady-Dorion have 28 years of combined professional programming experience in the field of distributed objects.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Distributed Object Computing ..... 11 Chapter 2: TCP/IP Networking ..... 21 Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design ..... 49 Chapter 4: Distributed Architectures ..... 69 Chapter 5: Design Patterns ..... 93 Chapter 6: The Airline Reservation System Model ..... 17 Part II: Java ..... 137 Chapter 7: Java Overview ..... 139 Chapter 8: Java Threads ..... 171 Chapter 9: Java Serialization and Beans ..... 193 Part III: Java's Networking and Enterprise APIs ..... 219 Chapter 10: Security ..... 221 Chapter 11: Relational Databases and Structured Query Language (SQL) ..... 247 Chapter 12: Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) ..... 269 Chapter 13: Sockets ..... 293 Chapter 14: Socket-Based Implementation of the Airline Reservation System ..... 319 Chapter 15: Remote Method Invocation (RMI) ..... 337 Chapter 16: RMI-Based Implementation of the Airline Reservation System ..... 361 Chapter 17: Java Help, Java Mail, and Other Java APIs ..... 377 Part IV: Non-CORBA Approaches to Distributed Computing ..... 395 Chapter 18: ServIets and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) ..... 397 Chapter 19: ServIet-Based Implementation of the Airline Reservation System ..... 421 Chapter 20: Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) ..... 433 Part V: The CORBA Approach to Distributed Computing ..... 495 Chapter 21: CORBA Overview ..... 497 Chapter 22: CORBA Architecture ..... 511 Chapter 23: Survey of CORBA ORBs ..... 545 Chapter 24: A CORBA Server ..... 561 Chapter 25: A CORBA Client ..... 581 Chapter 26: CORBA-Based Implementation of the Airline Reservation System ..... 617 Chapter 27: Quick CORBA: CORBA Without IDL ..... 635 Part VI: Advanced CORBA ..... 667 Chapter 28: The Portable Object Adapter (POA) ..... 669 Chapter 29: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (HOP) ..... 681 Chapter 30: The Naming Service ..... 693 Chapter 31: The Event Service ..... 715 Chapter 32: Interface Repository, Dynamic Invocation, Introspection, and Reflection ..... 743 Chapter 33: Other CORBA Facilities and Services ..... 767 Part VII: Agent Technologies ..... 787 Chapter 34: Voyager Agent Technology ..... 789 Chapter 35: Voyager-Based Implementation of the Airline Reservation System ..... 805 Part VIII: Summary and References ..... 827 Chapter 36: Summary ..... 829 Appendices Appendix A: Useful Resources ..... 849 Appendix B: Quick References ..... 857 Appendix C: How to Get the Most from the CD-ROM ..... 893 Index ..... 901