Pure CORBA

About the Lead Author

Fintan Bolton is a software consultant, trainer, and technical writer for IONA Technologies, the world's leading developer of CORBA tools and software. Mr. Bolton has trained developers in the use of CORBA-based software such as Orbix, OrbixWeb, and OrbixOTM. He has also written technical documentation for many CORBA-based products, including Orbix 2000 and OrbixOTM. He can be reached at

About the Contributing Authors

Jeremy L. Rosenberger is a cofounder of and principal consultant with Ivy Design Group LLC (also known as ivyDesign[TM]), a consulting firm specializing in enterprise application architecture using Java, CORBA, EJB, and J2EE technologies. Mr. Rosenberger is also the author of Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days (Sams Publishing, 1998). He can be reached at jeremy@ivydesign.com.

Mark Shacklette holds a degree from Harvard University, and he is a member of the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on object oriented architecture and design, operating systems, and complexity theory, and a practicum on distributed objects.

Lichun Wang, PhD, is a research scientist in Applied Computing and Bioinformatics at EBI (the European Bioinformatics Institute), currently working on using CORBA and XML for accessing and distributing biological data.