[2] TABLE OF CONTENTS — OVERVIEW
(Part of the CORBA FAQ, Copyright © 1996)

PART A: PRELIMINARIES:

• [1] “Meta” information:
  • The authors — alphabetically Rob, Marshall, Mike.
  • Legal mumbo jumbo — copyright, no warranty, copying permissions, trademarks.
  • Goals / Scope / Purpose — intended audience, “morality” vs. “legality”, tutorial.
  • Navigation — the four ways to navigate the CORBA FAQ.
  • Downloading — how to download your own copy.
• [2] Table of Contents — Overview
• [3] Table of Contents — Exhaustive
• [4] Alphabetical List of All FAQs
• [5] Subject Index
• [6] Recent Changes
• [7] Netiquette when posting to comp.object.corba

PART B: STRATEGY ISSUES:

• [8] Why Use Distributed Computing
• [9] Why Use Distributed Objects
• [10] Why Use CORBA
• [11] How to do Client/Server with CORBA
• [12] Choosing between CORBA and DCOM
• [13] Choosing between CORBA and DCE [under construction]
• [14] How Real/Mature is CORBA? [under construction]
• [15] How does CORBA relate to doing Internet/Intranet Applications?

PART C: TUTORIAL ON CORBA:

• [16] How to do Notification with CORBA
• [17] Why would I use CORBA Services
• [18] Architectural Choices — Concurrent vs. Distributed vs. Decoupled [under construction]
• [19] Asynchronous Communications
• [20] Application Architectures
• [21] Object References
• [22] Factories and Factory Finders
• [23] Reference Counting Architectures
• [24] Performance Issues
• [25] Interoperability Overview [under construction]
• [26] Miscellaneous Issues

PART D: CORBA NUTS AND BOLTS:

• [27] Basic CORBA Architecture
• [28] CORBA Objects
• [29] Pseudo Objects [under construction]
• [30] Interface Definition Language (IDL)
• [31] Skeletons and Implementation Objects
• [32] Object References — Details
• [33] Language Mappings [under construction]
• [34] Static Invocation [under construction]
• [35] DII [under construction]
• [36] DSI [under construction]
• [37] IR [under construction]
• [38] BOA
• [39] Interoperability — Details [under construction]
• [40] IIOP
• [41] Name Service
• [42] Event Service [under construction]
• [43] COS Lifecycle Service
• [44] Object Transaction Service
• [45] Trader Service

[ An exhaustive table of contents is also available ]

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