MICO - An Open Source CORBA Implentation

Recent market research has shown that developers using the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) approach to creating distributed applications outnumber those using Microsoft's COM by nearly 2 to 1. MICO is one of the most successful CORBA implentations available today. It is one of only three CORBA applications to be certified by the Open Group as fully conforming to the CORBA specification from the OMG (Object Management Group). And, unlike its expensive commercial competitors, MICO is developed and supported by a
worldwide community of programmers as a true Open SOurce project, so readers will be able to freely use the source code on the CD to create new CORBA applications, or apply it to current projects. MICO is already used in many products, including KDE, the most sophisticated desktop for Linux. MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implentation is a combination fo installation guide, tutorial, and user manual. It contains everything needed for readers to start building their own CORBA projects.

Features

• Provides an inexpensive way for programmers and developers to get started with CORBA.
  
• Gurus will appreciate the many CORBA features incorporated into MICO that are missing from commercial products.
  
• The enclosed CD provides precompiled code for Linux, Windows 95/98/NT, Solaris, AIX, Digital UNIX, and HP-UX, along with all of the source code and sample programs from various books on CORBA.
  
• Foreword by Dr. Richard Soley, Chariman and Chief Executive Officer of the OMG.

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Installation

3. CORBA tutorial using MICO

4. Implementation overview

5. C++ mapping

6. Interoperability

7. Naming service

8. Interface repository browser

9. License

A. Sample programs

B. Frequently Asked Questions

List of figures

Glossary

Bibliography

Index