The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide

This lively, topical, all-inclusive guide is designed to help readers navigate through the new distributed objects technology. By targeting the key issues, it offers the information essential to make intelligent choices. Provides a distributed objects roadmap, defines distributed components and situates distributed objects within the client/server field. Details CORBA and its products. Contains an integrated treatment of compound documents and business objects. Includes a comprehensive account of OpenDoc, OLE, Taligent and OpenStep. Packed with illustrations, soapboxes, cartoons and quotes.