Distributed Object Computing and its Application in Electronic Commerce Systems

Abstract: Distributed Object Computing (DOC) is an increasingly important computing paradigm exploiting the benefits of object-oriented technology and using the internet and its communications infrastructure as a vehicle for the delivery of a wide range of sophisticated value-added distributed services. The integration of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and object-oriented programming languages facilitates the introduction and deployment of such applications in a platform-independent open distributed environment. In this paper, we introduce both CORBA and Java as tools to facilitate the development of distributed object computing-based applications, and we present a prototype electronic commerce application using the DOC paradigm.