Chapter 8. Distributed Object-Oriented Programming in C++

“So a basic naively determined difference between the human situation and the android situation is that the human being comes equipped with an ego, whereas the robot does not.”

—Cary G deBessonet, Towards A Sentential ’Reality’ for the Android

In this Chapter

• Decomposition and Encapsulation of the Work

• Accessing Objects in Other Address Spaces

• The Anatomy of a Basic CORBA Consumer

• The Anatomy of a CORBA Producer

• The Basic Blueprint of a CORBA Application

• A Closer Look at Object Adapters

• Implementation and Interface Repositories

• Simple Distributed Web Services Using CORBA

• The Trading Service

• The Client/Server Paradigm

• Summary