MICO

1. Introduction



1.1 What is MICO?


1.2 Supported platforms


1.3 Problems or questions?


1.4 Overview of this book




2. Installation



2.1 Prerequisites


2.1.1 Compiling MICO applications


2.1.2 Compiling MICO


2.1.3 Compiling the interface repository browser


2.2 Running from CD


2.2.1 Unix


2.2.2 Windows


2.3 Installing from CD


2.3.1 Unix


2.3.2 Windows


2.4 Installing from sources (Unix)


2.5 Installing from sources (Windows)


2.5.1 Prerequisites


2.5.2 Compiling the MICO sources


2.5.3 Writing MICO applications using the IDE


2.6 Roadmap







3. CORBA tutorial using MICO



3.1 Objects in distributed systems


3.2 Overview of CORBA


3.3 Sample program


3.3.1 Stand-alone program


3.3.2 MICO application


3.3.3 Separating client and server







4. Implementation overview



4.1 ORB


4.1.1 ORB initialization


4.1.2 Obtaining initial references


4.2 Interface Repository (IR)


4.3 BOA


4.3.1 BOA initialization


4.3.2 BOA daemon


4.3.3 Implementation Repository (IMR)


4.3.4 Activation modes


4.3.5 Making objects persistent


4.3.6 Migrating objects


4.4 POA


4.4.1 Architecture


4.4.2 Policies


4.4.3 Example


4.4.4 Using a Servant Manager


4.4.5 Persistent Objects


4.4.6 Reference Counting


4.5 IDL compiler


4.6 Compiler and linker wrappers (CAPS)


4.6.1 Examples







5. C++ mapping



5.1 Using strings


5.2 Untyped values


5.2.1 Unknown constructed types


5.2.2 Subtyping


5.3 Arrays


5.4 Unions


5.5 Interface inheritance


5.6 Downcasting


5.7 Modules


5.8 Exceptions


5.8.1 CORBA-Compliant Exception Handling


5.8.2 MICO-Specific Exception Handling


5.8.3 No Exception handling


5.9 Mapping of operation parameters







6. Interoperability



6.1 GIOP and IIOP


6.2 Orbix from Iona


6.3 VisiBroker from Inprise


6.3.1 Interoperability with Java applications


6.3.2 Interoperability wiht Java applets







7. Naming service



7.1 Overview


7.2 Name server daemon


7.3 Administration


7.4 Example


7.4.1 Server side


7.4.2 Client side


7.4.3 Running the example







8. Interface repository browser



8.1 Conceptual Graphs


8.2 Dynamic invocation interface


8.3 Anatomy of an operation declaration


8.4 A generic DII interface


8.5 Running the example


8.6 Using the CG editor







9. License



9.1 GNU Library General Public License


9.2 GNU General Public License






A. Sample programs


A.1 Siegel's examples

A.2 Redlich's examples

A.3 Henning's & Vinoski's examples



B. Freqenly Asked Questions


List of figures



Glossary



Bibliography



Index