Java™ Network Programming and Distributed Computing

12.4. From IDL to Java

So far, we've covered the basic syntax of the Interface Definition Language. The next step is to write a CORBA service described by an IDL schema and implemented in Java. We'll also need to write a CORBA client that will access our service. So you can compare between CORBA and RMI, we'll carry on the example of a distributed lightbulb service, first introduced in Chapter 11.

For efficiency's sake, we will use the CORBA reference implementation that is included in the Java 2 platform. While this is not a full production implementation, it is perfectly adequate for the purposes of learning CORBA, and it comes free as part of Java.

12.4.1. A Sample Schema

The following schema describes our distributed lightbulb service, which ...