[5] SUBJECT INDEX
(Part of the CORBA FAQ, Copyright © 1996)

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• Advantages of CORBA ... [9.2]
• Alphabetical list of all FAQs ... [4]
• Application architecture ... [19]
  • Basics ... [19.1]
  • Exclusive vs. Non-Exclusive Objects ... [19.2]
  • Statefull vs. Stateless Objects ... [19.2]
• Application threading
  • Relation to CORBA asynchronous communication ... [18.3]
• Asynchronous communication ... [18]
  • Basics ... [18.1]
  • CORBA support ... [18.2]
  • Relation to application threading ... [18.3]
  • Things CORBA doesn’t supported ... [18.4]
• Audience expectations ... [1.9]
• Authors of the CORBA FAQ ... [1.1]
  • Marshall Cline ... [1.3]
  • Mike Girou ... [1.4]
  • Rob Appelbaum ... [1.2]

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• Basic functionality provided by CORBA ... [9.1]
• Basic Object Adaptor (BOA) ... [37]
  • Activation policies ... [37.2], [37.3]
  • Definition ... [37.1]
• BOA (see Basic Object Adaptor) ... [37]

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• C language
  • Declaring an Object reference ... [20.15]
• C++ language
  • Declaring an Object reference ... [20.16]
• Changes to the CORBA FAQ (see Recent changes...) ... [6]
• Client/Server ... [10]
  • C/S communication enabled by CORBA ... [10.1]
  • C/S limitations imposed by CORBA ... [10.2]
• Competitors of CORBA ... [9.3]
• Contents of the CORBA FAQ
  • Alphabetical list of all FAQs ... [4]
  • Exaustive list of all FAQs ... [3]
  • Overview of all sections ... [2]
• Copy permissions ... [1.7]
• Copyright notice ... [1.5]
• CORBA Architecture ... [26]
  • Basics ... [26.1]
• CORBA FAQ ... [0]
• CORBA object vs. Distributed object ... [8.2]
• CORBA Objects ... [27]
  • Capabilities ... [27.2]
  • Definition ... [27.1]
• CORBA Services ... [16]
  • Basics ... [16.1]
  • Event Service ... [16.4]
  • Life Cycle Service ... [16.3]
  • Name Service ... [16.2], [40]
• CORBA
  • Advantages ... [9.2]
  • Basic functionality provided by CORBA ... [9.1]
  • Competitor technologies ... [9.3]
  • Why use it? ... [9]

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• Database triggers ... [9.3]
• DCE ... [9.3]
• DCOM ... [9.3], [11]
  • Benefits of CORBA ... [11.1]
  • Limitations of CORBA ... [11.4]
  • Maturity compared with CORBA ... [11.3]
  • Mixing with CORBA ... [11.2]
• Definition
  • Basic Object Adaptor (BOA) ... [37.1]
  • CORBA Object ... [8.2]
  • CORBA Objects ... [27.1]
  • Distributed object ... [8.1]
  • Interoperable object reference ... [39.1]
  • Object reference ... [20.1]
• Distributed Computing
  • Performance enhancements ... [7.1]
  • Relation to Distributed Databases ... [7.2]
  • Solving business problems ... [7.3]
  • Why use it? ... [7]
• Distributed databases ... [7.2]
• Distributed Object
  • vs. CORBA object ... [8.2]
• Distributed objects
  • Definition ... [8.1]
  • Don’t distribute every business object ... [8.5]
  • Implementation process ... [8.4]
  • Why use them ... [8], [8.3]
• Downloading your own copy of the CORBA FAQ ... [1.13]

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• Event Service ... [16.4]
• Exaustive list of all FAQs ... [3]

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• Goals of the CORBA FAQ
  • Audience expectations ... [1.9]
  • Morality in addition to Legality ... [1.10]
  • Tutorial ... [1.11]

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• Handles
  • Object reference ... [20.2]

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• IIOP ... [39]
• Index of topics, Sorted by Subject ... [5]
• Interoperable object reference (IOR) ... [20.18]
  • Definition ... [39.1]
  • Format ... [20.19], [20.20]
  • Hidden from the application programmer ... [20.25]
  • Interoperability ... [39.4]
  • Low level details ... [20.24]
  • Obtaining from an application ... [39.2]
  • Profile ... [20.22], [20.23]
  • Stringifying ... [20.26]
  • Tags ... [20.21]
  • Vendor transparency ... [39.3]
• IOR (see Interoperable object reference) ... [20.18], [39.1]
• is_equivalent() (see Object reference) ... [20.9], [20.10]

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• Legal mumbo jumbo
  • Copy permissions ... [1.7]
  • Copyright notice ... [1.5]
  • No Warranty ... [1.6]
  • Trademarks ... [1.8]
• Legality = can vs. can’t ... [1.10]
• Life Cycle Service ... [16.3]
• Lifetime
  • Object reference ... [20.3]
• List of all FAQs
  • Alphabetical list ... [4]
  • Exaustive list ... [3]

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• Maturity
  • CORBA vs. DCOM ... [11.3]
• Message queuing ... [9.3]
• Morality = should vs. shouldn’t ... [1.10]

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• Name Service ... [16.2], [40]
  • Alternatives ... [40.3]
  • COSNaming module ... [40.1]
  • NameContext ... [40.2]
• Named Pipe communication ... [9.3]
• Navigating the CORBA FAQ ... [1.12]
• No Warranty ... [1.6]
• Notification ... [15]
  • And CORBA ... [15.1]

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• Object reference (OR) ... [20], [31]
  • A “handle” vs. a “hard address” ... [20.2]
  • Comparing ... [20.8], [20.9], [20.10], [20.11], [20.12], [20.13], [20.14]
  • Creation of ... [20.7]
  • Declaring in the C language ... [20.15]
  • Declaring in the C++ language ... [20.16]
  • Definition ... [20.1]
  • Format ... [20.6]
  • is_equivalent() ... [20.9], [20.10]
  • Lifetime ... [20.3]
  • Obtaining from an application ... [31.1]
  • Persistent ... [20.4]
  • _ptr ... [20.17]
  • Stringifying ... [20.5]
  • _var ... [20.17]
• OR (see Object reference) ... [20]
• ORB vendors
  • Performance differences introduced by ... [23.2]
  • Simplifying interoperability ... [39.4]
  • Transparency within an application ... [39.3]
• Overview of all sections ... [2]

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• Performance ... [23]
• Performance enhancements ... [7.1]
• Performance
  • Basics ... [23.1]
  • Differences introduced by ORB vendors ... [23.2]
  • Quantifying performance ... [23.3]
• Persistent
  • Object reference ... [20.4]

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• Recent changes to the CORBA FAQ ... [6]
  • Chain of recently updated FAQs ... [6.1]
  • Changes made for 1996-08 (Aug 1996) release ... [6.4]
  • Changes made for 1996-09 (Sep 1996) release ... [6.3]
  • Changes made for 1996-10 (Oct 1996) release ... [6.2]

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• Shared memory based interaction ... [9.3]
• Socket level programming ... [9.3]
• Solving business problems with Distributed Computing ... [7.3]
• Source code identifiers, underscores (“_”) in ... [25.1]
• Stringify
  • Interoperable object reference (IOR) ... [20.26]
  • Object reference (OR) ... [20.5]
• Subject index ... [5]

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• Table of Contents of the CORBA FAQ
  • Alphabetical list of all FAQs ... [4]
  • Exaustive list of all FAQs ... [3]
  • Overview of all sections ... [2]
• Threading
  • Relation to CORBA asynchronous communication ... [18.3]
• Trademarks ... [1.8]
• Tutorial ... [1.11]

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• Underscores (“_”) in source code identifiers ... [25.1]

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• Vendors of ORBs (see ORB vendors) ... [23.2]

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• Warranty (NOT!) ... [1.6]
• Web applications ... [14]
  • Accessing CORBA objects from ... [14.1]
• Why use CORBA ... [9]
• Why use Distributed Computing ... [7]
• Why use distributed objects ... [8]

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