OMG Announces Professional CORBA Reference Manual

Boston, MA -- The Framingham, MA based Object Management Group (OMG)
announces the availability of the OMG authored publication:CORBA
FUNDAMENTALS AND PROGRAMMING.

Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Professional Reference and Trade
Group, CORBA Fundamentals and Programming provides a brief introduction to
the benefits of distributed object computing, continuing through a
comprehensive description of CORBA and the Object Management Architecture
(OMA), and concluding with a sophisticated multi-object tutorial example.
Jon Siegel, Director of Domain Technology for the OMG, and 10 co-authors
present all the necessary technical background and details about the
Object Management Group's CORBA, CORBAservices and CORBAfacilities. The
final section of the book is devoted to a fully worked tutorial
programming example.

"This is the first publication that proves the programmer benefits of using
OMG Interface Definition Language," said Christopher Stone, President and
CEO, OMG. "It includes 8 code examples from 7 vendors, and they all
implement identical functionality using the same IDL interfaces."

Dr. Siegel, and development teams from the United States and Europe,
provide practical examples of working code in the popular object
languages: Smalltalk, C and C++. Based on a retail establishment with a
single warehouse, and multiple stores with point-of-sale terminals, the
tutorial demonstrates distributed programming, the advantages of a
distributed object environment, basic and intermediate of CORBA
programming techniques. The techniques illustrated and discussed will help
programmers write new programs faster and more inexpensively while making
existing programs easier to change, extend and maintain. All of the code
presented has been successfully used at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, SunSoft,
ICL, Digital Equipment Corp., Expersoft and IONA Technologies.

The book includes a disk containing:

 All IDL interfaces
 Source code in C, C++ and Smalltalk
 Makefiles for eight ORB environments.

"The programming example is unique -- it was written by representatives of
seven competing companies who worked together closely for the benefit of
the distributed object technology community as a whole., "said Jon Siegel.
"The example demonstrates an extremely high level of portability as well
as interoperability, thanks to the hard work of this fine group of
people."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jon Siegel, Ph.D, is Director of Domain Technology at OMG where he chairs
the Domain Technology Committee which sets OMG specifications for vertical
markets. He is a frequent speaker about OMG at conferences and symposia
around the world and works closely with international standards groups,
industry consortia and the end-user community to promote the use of OMG
specifications as industry standards.

In addition to Dr. Siegel, contributors to the book include: Dan Frantz,
Digital Equipment Corp.; Hal Mirsky, Expersoft Corp.; Raghu Hudli, IBM;
Alex Thomas and Wilf Coles, ICL; Peter De Jong, Alan Klein and Brent
Wilkins, Hewlett-Packard; Sean Baker, IONA Technologies; and Maurice
Balick, SunSoft.

ORDERING INFORMATION

To order CORBA FUNDAMENTALS AND PROGRAMMING, call John Wiley and Sons at
+1-800-255 5945, or write John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York,
NY 10158. For more information about Wiley books, email compbks@jwiley.com
or visit their Web site at: http://www.wiley.com.

Copies of CORBA Fundamentals and Programming will also be available at
Object World East, May 7-9, 1996, from Powell's Bookstore at the Exhibit
Hall. Dr. Siegel will be available for book signing from 12:00-12:30 on
May 8, 1996, at Powell's Books, Object World East '96 Exhibit Hall, Hynes
Convention Center, Boston, MA.

For orders in quantities of 10 or more, contact the OMG Customer Service
Manager, Cindy McComiskey, at OMG's Headquarters or send Email to
pubs@omg.org.
 
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