| The purpose of this chapter is to help developers and development organizations avoid some of the common pitfalls that can occur when they first encounter distributed objects and CORBA. It is not intended to be a tutorial that provides all the details of using CORBA. Rather, this chapter skims a few of the important issues without getting into technical detail. |
Entire books are devoted to using CORBA, and readers interested in the details of, for example, static versus dynamic member function invocation or the proper use of the _var and _ptr suffixes should consult them. Another good way to get general information on CORBA is to visit the Web site of the Object Management Group (OMG) by pointing the browser at http://www.omg.org. |