Two working demonstrations that accompany the book are available for download:

• The Book Repository demonstration is a simple client-server application that illustrates the fundamental concepts of CORBA programming, as described in Chapter 2 of the book. The code is provided in both C++ and Java vesions. Click here to see the Book Repository IDL.

• The Recycle Broker demonstration illustrates how to integrate a web client with a CORBA backend. HTML pages are served up by a Java servlet that makes invocations on a backend CORBA server implemented in C++. Click here to see the Recycle Broker IDL.

You need to download and install the following software products to run the demonstration code:

• Orbix 2000 v1.2.1 from IONA Technologies (for Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack SP6a or later)

  Available from http://www.iona.com/downloads

• Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (patches: Visual C++ 6.0 Service Pack 3 or later)

• JDK 1.2.2 or JDK 1.3 from SUN

  Available from http://java.sun.com/j2se

• Java 2, Enterprise Edition v1.2.1 from SUN

  Available from http://java.sun.com/j2ee

• Jakarta Tomcat v3.1.1 or v3.2.1

  Available from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat

The demonstration code is currently available only for the Windows NT platform:

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