Multi-Tier And Distributed Systems

One of the dreams of programmers with resource intensive applications is to be able to bring more than one CPU to bear on a problem. Accomplishing this has remained a difficult and arcane art, despite the best efforts of researchers, developers and standards organizations. However, C++ Builder offers tools which make this task much simpler than ever before.

Note that these examples were created with C++ Builder Enterprise Edition version 4 (Visibroker 3.3 (CORBA)).

• A basic CORBA application - Use the Common Object Request Broker Architecture to create, test, and maintain a simple distributed application. Explores IDL, server and client generation, user interfaces, databases and data modules in the CORBA server environment, use of the Object Activation Daemon (OAD) and the Smart Agent object directory service, and strategies for local testing and debugging.

• A basic socket client / server - Use the Windows Socket components (TServerSocket and TClientSocket) to exchange messages between two programs. (1/00)