About the Authors -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Infrastructures for Distributed Applications -- Thematic Organization -- Target Group -- Chapter Overviews -- Ancillary Materials -- Basic Concepts -- Distributed Systems -- Characterization -- Transparency -- Communication Mechanisms -- Client/Server Model -- Failure Semantics -- Object Model -- Characterization -- Terminology -- Middleware -- Middleware Tasks -- The Structure of a Middleware Platform -- Standardization of a Middleware -- Portability and Interoperability -- Sample Application -- The Account Example -- C++ Implementation -- Distribution of the Sample Application -- Summary -- Introduction to CORBA -- Object Management Architecture -- Overview of CORBA -- CORBA Object Model -- Interface Definition Language -- IDL-Language Mappings -- Object Request Broker -- Invocation and Object Adapters -- Interoperability -- The Creation Process of a CORBA Application -- Application Development in C++ -- IDL Specification -- IDL Language Mapping for C++ -- C++ Server Implementation -- C++ Client Implementation -- Compiling and Executing the Application -- Compiling the Application -- Executing the Application -- Application Development in Java -- Java Server Implementation -- Java Client Implementation -- Compiling and Executing the Java Implementation -- The Bootstrapping Problem -- File-Based Bootstrapping -- Object URLs -- Command Line Arguments -- Naming Service -- Overview -- Name Server Daemon -- Example -- Summary -- µORB -- µORB Architecture -- Transport Layer -- Presentation Layer -- Value Ranges of Types -- Representation of Type Instances -- Modeling of the Presentation Layer -- Interoperability Layer -- Protocol for Remote Operation Invocation -- Structure of Protocol Data Units -- Modeling of Protocol Data Units -- Proxies -- Object Services -- Life Cycle of an Object.

Object References -- Services on the Server Side -- Summary -- ORB Design -- ORB Functionality -- ORB Architectures -- Design of Mico's ORB -- Invocation Adapter Interface -- Object Adapter Interface -- Invocation Table -- Scheduler -- Object Generation -- Bootstrapping -- Dynamic Extensibility -- Summary, Evaluation, and Alternatives -- Interoperability -- Model -- Inter-ORB Protocols -- Interoperable Object References -- General Inter-ORB Protocol -- Environment-Specific Inter-ORB Protocols -- Design of Mico's Interoperability -- Framework -- GIOP -- Summary, Evaluation, and Alternatives -- Object Adapters -- Terminology -- Functionality -- Object Management -- Servant Management -- Generation of Object References -- Mapping Objects to Servants -- Execution of Method Invocations -- The Portable Object Adapter -- Overview -- Policies -- POA Manager -- Request Processing -- Persistence -- Design of Mico's POA -- Object Key Generation -- Persistence -- POA Mediator -- Collocation -- Invocation Adapters -- Functionality -- Representation of IDL Data Types -- Type Checking -- Dynamic Invocation Interface -- Static Invocation Interface -- Design of Mico's DII -- Design of Mico's SII -- Summary -- IDL Compiler -- Invocation Adapters -- Dynamic versus Static Invocation Adapters -- Support of Static Invocation Adapters -- Mico's Static Invocation Adapter -- Compiler Fundamentals -- Formal Languages and Grammars -- Parse Trees -- Structure of a Compiler -- Abstract Syntax Tree for IDL Specifications -- Mico's IDL Compiler -- Class Structure -- Front End -- Back End -- Summary, Evaluation, and Alternatives -- CORBA and Beyond -- CORBA Components -- Component-Based Development -- The CORBA Component Model -- An Example Component -- Implementation Overview -- Discussion -- Web Services -- Overview of XML -- Service Descriptions through WSDL.

Server-Side Mapping -- Interoperability through SOAP -- Service Lookup through UDDI -- CORBA or Web Services? -- Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing -- Ubiquitous Computing in a Nutshell -- Middleware Challenges -- Case Study: Sensor Networks -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Mico Installation -- Installing Mico on UNIX -- Installing Mico on Windows -- Road Map -- Mico Implementation Overview -- ORB -- Interface Repository -- Portable Object Adapter -- Mico Daemon -- Implementation Repository -- IDL Compiler -- Compiler and Linker Wrappers -- Examples -- Mico Implementation Details -- Path of an Operation Invocation through an ORB -- Client Side -- Server Side -- Integration of a New Invocation Adapter -- Integration of a New Object Adapter -- Integration of a New Transport Mechanism -- XAddress -- XAddressParser -- XProfile -- XProfileDecoder -- XTransport -- XTransportServer -- Dispatcher -- Initialization -- The Structure of Generated Program Code -- Sample Application -- Stand-alone Application in C++ -- IDL Specification -- Implementation of the Server in C++ -- Implementation of the Client in C++ -- Implementation of the Server in Java -- Implementation of the Client in Java -- List of Figures -- Acronyms -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.