Developing Component Software with CORBA

This manual describes how to use the CORBA interoperability features in Open Dylan.

Contents:

• Preface
  • Product
  • Parts
  • Audience
  • Standards compliance
  • Further reading
• About Open Dylan CORBA
  • About CORBA
  • About the Open Dylan ORB
  • Features of Open Dylan CORBA
  • CORBA examples
• Quick Start Tutorial
  • About this chapter
  • A CORBA-based Hello World
  • Creating the projects
  • Defining the interface
  • Implementing the client
  • Implementing the server
  • Building and testing the application
• Setting up the Bank Example
  • About the bank example
  • Where to find the example code
  • ODBC requirements
  • Registering the database with ODBC
  • Building the Bank client and server
  • Running the server and client
• Writing and Compiling IDL
  • Writing IDL for a CORBA application
  • Compiling IDL for a CORBA application
  • Mapping IDL to Dylan
• The Bank Client
  • The bank client
  • The client’s perspective
  • Requirements for implementing the bank client
  • Implementing the bank client’s GUI
  • Implementing CORBA initialization for the bank client
• The Bank Server
  • The server
  • The ODBC database
  • Overview of the Open Dylan SQL-ODBC library
  • Implementing CORBA objects in a server
  • Requirements for implementing the bank server
  • Implementing CORBA initialization for the bank server
• Creating CORBA Projects
  • About CORBA projects
  • Creating CORBA projects
  • Setting ORB options
  • The role of spec files in IDL compilation
  • Using IDL for non-CORBA work
• Running and Debugging CORBA Applications
  • Debugging client/server applications in the IDE
  • Browsing for supported CORBA operations
  • ORB runtime
• Using the Dylan IDL Compiler
  • Introduction
  • General usage
  • Code generation options
  • Preprocessor options
  • Miscellaneous options
  • Examples
• An IDL Binding for Dylan
  • Introduction
  • Design rationale
  • Lexical mapping
  • The mapping of IDL to Dylan
  • The mapping of pseudo-objects to Dylan

Indices and tables

• Index

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