[2] TABLE OF CONTENTS — OVERVIEW
(Part of the CORBA FAQ, Copyright © 1996-99)

PART A: PRELIMINARIES:

• [1] “Meta” information:
  • The authors — alphabetically Rob, Lester, Jim, Marshall, Mike.
  • Legal mumbo jumbo — copyright, no warranty, copying permissions, trademarks.
  • Goals / Scope / Purpose — intended audience, “morality” vs. “legality”, tutorial.
  • Navigation — the four ways to navigate the CORBA FAQ.
  • Downloading — how to download your own copy.
• [2] Table of Contents — Overview
• [3] Table of Contents — Exhaustive
• [4] Alphabetical List of All FAQs
• [5] Subject Index
• [6] Recent Changes
• [7] Netiquette when posting to comp.object.corba

PART B: STRATEGY ISSUES:

• [8] Why Use Distributed Computing
• [9] Why Use Distributed Objects
• [10] Why Use CORBA
• [11] How to do Client/Server with CORBA
• [12] Choosing between CORBA and DCOM
• [13] Choosing between CORBA and DCE
• [14] Choosing between CORBA and EJB
• [15] How Real/Mature is CORBA?
• [16] How does CORBA relate to doing Internet/Intranet Applications?

PART C: TUTORIAL ON CORBA:

• [17] How to do Notification with CORBA
• [18] Architectural Choices — Concurrent vs. Distributed vs. Decoupled [under construction]
• [19] Asynchronous Communications
• [20] Multi-threaded Architectures
• [21] Application Architectures
• [22] Object References
• [23] Factories and Factory Finders
• [24] Reference Counting Architectures
• [25] Performance Issues
• [26] Interoperability Overview
• [27] Miscellaneous Issues
• [58] Reading List

PART D: CORBA NUTS AND BOLTS:

• [28] Basic CORBA Architecture
• [29] CORBA Objects
• [30] Pseudo Objects
• [31] Interface Definition Language (IDL)
• [32] Skeletons and Implementation Objects
• [33] Object References — Details
• [34] Language Mappings
• [35] Static Invocation
• [36] Dynamic Invocation
• [37] Dynamic Skeleton Interface
• [38] Any
• [39] Typecode
• [40] Interface Repository
• [41] BOA
• [42] POA
• [43] Interoperability — Details
• [44] IIOP
• [45] Initialization Service
• [46] Name Service
• [47] Event Service
• [48] Notification Service
• [49] Lifecycle Service
• [50] Object Transaction Service
• [51] Trader Service
• [52] Persistent Object Service
• [53] Persistent State Service
• [54] Objects By Value (OBV)
• [55] Asynchronous Messaging Interface
• [56] Firewall Specification [under construction]
• [57] CORBA and XML

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