The Java Developer Connection SM (JDC) presents a Short Course introducing the Common Object Request Broker Architecture written by Java ™ Software licensee, the MageLang Institute. A leading provider of Java technology training, MageLang has contributed regularly to the JDC since 1996.

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The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from the Object Management Group (OMG) provides a platformindependent, language-independent architecture for writing distributed,object-oriented applications. CORBA objects can reside in the same process,on the same machine,down the hall,or across the planet. The Java language is an excellent language for writing CORBA programs. Some of the features that account for this popularity include the clear mapping from OMGIDL to the Java programming language,and the Java runtime environment’s built-in garbage collection.

This introductory course will give you an overall view of how CORBA works, how to write CORBA applications in the Java programming language, and illustrates Sun’s Java 2 ORB implementation of CORBA as well as Inprise’sVisiBroker for Java. The approach to presenting CORBA taken in this course is through an example stock trading application.

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