CORBA 2.6.1 Programmer's Guide for C++
Table Of Contents
- HP NonStop CORBA 2.6.1 Programmer's Guide for C++
- New and Changed Information
- Legal Notice
- About This Guide
- Chapter 1. Introduction to NonStop CORBA Programming
- Chapter 2. NonStop CORBA Administrative Environment
- Chapter 3. Compiling and Building an Application
- Chapter 4. Deploying a NonStop CORBA Application
- Chapter 5. Tracing and Debugging Applications
- Chapter 6. Writing Scalable Applications
- Chapter 7. Managing Transactions
- Chapter 8. Writing Multithreaded Applications
- Chapter 9. Designing Advanced Applications
- Chapter 10. Porting CORBA Applications to NonStop CORBA
- Chapter 11. Using the IIOP/SSL API
- Chapter 12. Writing Wrappers for Legacy Clients and Servers
- Appendix A. Architectural Walkthrough
- Appendix B. Object References
- Appendix C. Servant Reference Counting in NonStop CORBA
- Index
Chapter 3. Compiling and Building an Application
Chapter 3. Compiling and Building an Application
Overview of NonStop CORBA Application Development
Development Begins with IDL and CORBA Objects
Development Process
Tips for Building NonStop CORBA Application Components
Makefiles
Special Considerations for Building Transactional Clients and Servers
Using the IDL Compiler
IDL Compiler Processing
IDL Compiler Syntax
Overview of NonStop CORBA Application Development
This section provides an overview of the steps used in developing a simple client and a server. When developing a more complex application
environment, you use these same steps for the individual components. What changes is the number of objects and the complexity of the
interactions between the clients and the objects.
Although application development is often described as though one developer controls all the application components, object technology lets you
develop discrete components without knowing the details of other components with which they interact.
Development Begins with IDL and CORBA Objects
IDL is the language used to specify CORBA object interfaces that client objects can call and object implementations can supply. Specifying an
interface in IDL allows clients and servers to run on distributed systems using different operating systems and written in different languages.
CORBA objects are entities that the ORB can locate and that can receive client requests. CORBA objects are not concrete until they have
been implemented in a programming language such as C++ or Java. CORBA objects are targets for client invocations.
You use the NonStop CORBA IDL compiler to generate the stubs and skeletons used to build a NonStop CORBA application. NonStop CORBA
applications must be built using these stubs and skeletons. Code generated by other IDL compilers will lack the appropriate vendor-specific
code.
Development Process
Let's start with an example object interface specification, and follow the process of developing a client and a server. The required steps are
described below and illustrated in
Figure 3–1.
Figure 3.1. The Process of Developing a Client and a Server