This column is the first in a series that focuses on the CORBA Component Model (CCM). It first outlines the evolution of programming abstractions from subroutines to modules, objects, and components. Then it describes how this evolution has largely been mirrored in middleware, fr…

This column discusses a hybrid publisher/subscriber and request/response distribution architecture that uses CCM features to implement stock-quoter example.

Continues the examination of the IDL-to-Java mapping with a look at more complex types and helper classes.

How discrete component interface definitions translate to Java elements.

Puts the final touches on the example XPCOM implementation, shows how to install the component, and demonstrates simple testing methods using XPCShell.

Covers component authoring by using a GPS receiver as an example component.

Building the XPCOM development environment.

Introduction to XPCOM, Mozilla's component architecture.

Explains how to access Mozilla objects as a client.

Introduction to XPCOM programming: type libraries, the xpidl compiler, and interface discovery.

Covers the installation of XPCOM and PyXPCOM.

Article by Karsten Januszewski (Microsoft). This article walks through using UDDI at run time and discusses how UDDI, both the public registry and UDDI Services available in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, can act as infrastructure for Web services to support client applications.…

Article by Karsten Januszewski (Microsoft). Shows how UDDI can be used at run-time as an abstraction layer between Web services and their clients; explores the use of WSDL as an interface definition document and how to model these documents and their implementations in UDDI. Also…

Article by Karsten Januszewski (Microsoft). Author first look at the implications of UDDI both from a technological and business perspective. Then author look at the relationship between UDDI and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Lastly, He step through UDDI registration …

Article by Scott Seely (Microsoft). It show what had to do to register the Cold Rooster Favorites Service with the Microsoft UDDI registry. Start at the very beginning.

Shows how to use Stored Procedures, which is usually a feature of high-end databases, in Microsoft Access.

How to use POSIX threads to increase the responsiveness and performance of your code.

How to protect the integrity of shared data structures in threaded code by using mutexes.

How to use condition variables.

Discussion of two more architectural solutions to threading problems: a synchronous dispatcher (or 'reactor') and an asynchronous dispatcher (or 'active object').…