VisualAge for Smalltalk and SOMobjects

Developing distributed Object Applications

Published October, 1996 by Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Copyright 1996, 240 pp.
ISBN 0-13-570813-3

This book describes the process of building a distributed object application using VisualAge for Smalltalk, VisualAge C++, and the SOMobjects Developer Toolkit.

It contains:

• A description of the distributed object environment, as defined by OMG's CORBA specifications, and its implementation through IBM SOM/DSOM
• The modeling process for developing a distributed object application using the VisualModeling Technique (VMT) developed at the IBM ITSO San Jose Center
• The design and implementation of the sample Foreign Currency Exchange (FCE) application using VisualAge and SOMobjects
• Recommendations for building distributed object applications with VisualAge and SOM/DSOM.

This book is written for software engineers, application engineers, application programmers, software development managers, and object technology consultants.

This book also includes a diskette which contains the sample programs used throughout the book. To install the sample programs, at a command prompt, type:

a:\install

and follow the instructions in the readme files in the diskette.

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