Object-Oriented Client/Server Internet Environments

This book systematically answers critical management and technical questions about the modern IT infrastructure, in particular, middleware. Among the topics covered are: distributed object technologies such as CORBA, OLE/ActiveX, and OpenDoc; middleware for the World Wide Web such as Web browsers, Web gateways, and Java; middleware for remote SQL, such as SQL gateways, ODBC and DRDA; network operating systems such as OSF DCE; client/server transaction processing middleware, and middleware for mobile, groupware, legacy access, and distributed multimedia applications. For information systems management, programmers, systems analysts, and other computing professionals.