Development of distributed systems with Java']Java™ and CORBA™ issues and solutions

This paper summarises experience gained designing, developing, deploying and promoting distributed objects systems using Java (TM) platform, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA (TM)) and the World Wide Web during more than 3 years. The main question to be answered is:"How to build distributed business information systems with reasonable costs and time to market?" Paper provides three contributions to the study of distributed object computing in practice. First, we outline generic system architecture, which is quite common for many applications, and identify some issues that are important in applications of this type. Second, we discuss our solutions, which proved to be reusable across several different projects. And third, we present analysis of our CORBA components and Java class libraries from the reusability point of view.