中间件技术概论43.pptVIP

2001/9/2 CORBA as aManagement Architecture Enterprise Computing Enterprises have a variety of computing platforms Unix, 95/98/NT, MVS, AS/400, VMS, Macintosh, etc. Enterprises write applications in a variety of programming languages C, C++, Java, COBOL, Basic, Perl, Smalltalk, etc. Enterprises need an open architecture to support the heterogeneous environment The development of DP resembles that of networks Object-Oriented Enterprise Computing Enterprise applications are being written in terms of objects Reusable components that can be accessed over the enterprise network CORBA supplies the architecture for distributed applications based on open standards Object Management Group (OMG) Industry Consortium with over 855 member companies formed to develop a distributed object standard Accepted proposals for the various specifications to define: Communications infrastructure Standard interface between objects Object services Developed the spec for the object management architecture (OMA) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) The core of OMA CORBA Design Goals No need to pre-determine: The programming language The hardware platform The operating system The degree of object distribution X-tier? Open Architecture: Language-neutral Interface Definition Language (IDL) Characteristics Language, platform and location transparent A Stock Distributed Application A Stock Distributed Application Objects in the Stock Application Stock A distributed object representing a particular stock StockPresentation GUI object for stock data Alarm A distributed object representing the alarm set by the user AlarmPresentation GUI object for the alarm going off to the user IDL Example: Stock Object struct Quote { string symbol; long at_time; double price; long volume; }; Define data structure exception Unknown{}; Define event handler IDL Example: Stock Object interface Stock { Quote get_quote() raises(Unknown); void set_quote(in