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ROBERT ORFALI and DAN HARKEY are distributed objects consultants for IBM. They also head the CORBA/Java Distributed Objects MS Program and Lab at San Jose State University. JERI EDWARDS is the VP of Strategy and Product Planning at BEA Systems-the maker of Tuxedo. They are also the authors of the bestselling Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA, Instant CORBA, and The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide.

Partial table of contents:

CLIENT/SERVER WITH DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS.

Objects: The Next Client/Server Revolution.

From Distributed Objects to Smart Components.

CORBA: THE DISTRIBUTED OBJECT BUS.

CORBA: A Bird's Eye View.

COBRA 2.0: The Intergalactic Object Bus.

CORBA Services: Transactions and Concurrency.

CORBA Services: Query and Relationships.

CORBA Commercial ORBs.

FRAMEWORKS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS AND COMPONENTS.

Object Frameworks: An Overview.

The OpenDoc Component Model.

Newi: Cooperative Business Objects.

OPENDOC UNDER THE HOOD.

OpenDoc and SOM: The Object Model.

OpenDoc: Uniform Data Transfer.

OLE/COM UNDER THE HOOD.

COM: OLE's Object Bus.

OLE: Uniform Data Transfer.

OLE: Compound Documents and OCXs.

COMPONENT NIRVANA: CLIENT/SERVER WITH PARTS.

Which Component Model?

Client/Server with Component Suites.

Where to Go for More Information.

Trademarks.

Index.