UniForum Chicago Meetings

General Meeting

An Introduction to CORBA

Paul Jonusaitis

Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:00-9:00 pm
College of DuPage Room SRC 2800(d,e,f)

Abstract

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) have emerged as the open standards based distributed computing model and protocol. The integration of CORBA and IIOP into the Java 2 platform and the Enterprise JavaBeans specification reinforce their importance for the application architectures of the future.

This presentation will give the audience a knowledge of the fundamentals of CORBA and distributed computing architectures implemented in CORBA.

Topics will include:

Origins of CORBA

Basic elements: object request brokers, stubs, skeletons, IIOP and IDL

Commonly used CORBA services: naming, events, notification, transaction

How CORBA functions as infrastructure in intranets and Internet applications

CORBA and JAVA/EJB

Code examples in Java and C++

Overview of commercial and non-commercial CORBA implementations

Speaker Bio

Paul Jonusaitis was a Senior Systems Engineer with Inprise Corporation (formerly Borland and Visigenic Software). His responsibilities included managing technical support relationships with customers in the Chicago area, developing implementation plans and architectural reviews.

Paul's career in software started in the early 1980s with COBOL development for financial analysis applications. He has been working with distributed object technology since the early 1990s, when the words 'distributed' and 'object' were both poorly understood. When not immersed in software, Paul works on weed hunting, dog wrangling and cat herding.

Getting to the meeting

The next meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, September 28, 1999 at the College of DuPage. The address of the meeting facility is:

        College of DuPage
        Building SRC, Rm 2800
        22nd and Lambert
        Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599

Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56).
Take Butterfield West to Lambert Rd, then Lambert Rd North to 22nd St.
Turn right and look for Lot 2 or the Faculty/Staff parking lot (behind Lot 1) on the right side of 22nd St.
Walk to the SRC building, room 2800 is on the second floor of the west side of the building,
upstairs from the north doors facing Lot 2.

All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge.

Contact Scott Nemec at (630) 990-6265 for additional information.