Michi Henning

Position:

Chief CORBA Scientist, IONA Technologies

Managing Director, Object Oriented Concepts Pty Ltd

Address:

Object Oriented Concepts Pty Ltd (ABN 86 088 779 926)

Suite 4, 8 Martha St

Camp Hill 4152

Brisbane, Australia

Phone:  +61 7 3324 9633
Mobile: +61 4 1118 2700
Fax:    +61 7 3324 9799
Email:  [email protected]

• CORBA, C++, distributed OO
• UNIX kernel, compilers, debuggers

• Advanced CORBA Programming with C++

  

  Steve Vinoski and I have written a CORBA book called Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, published by Addison Wesley Longman. You can find a copy of the table of contents, the preface, a sample chapter, and source code at the home page for the book.

  Reviews:

  A number of people were kind enough to publish reviews of the book. Please let us know if you come across a review that is not listed here.

  • Review by Cedric Beust, 2 April 1999
  • Review by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft, 22 June 1999 (C++ Zone)
  • Review by Rich Wellner, 12 July 1999 (Slashdot)
  • Review by Ira Pohl, 1 September 1999 (fatbrain.com)
  • Review by Steve Cornish, September 1999 (ACCU in C Vu 11-6)

  There are also a few quotes by people who like the book.

  Errata:

  An errata page for the book is available. Please check this list before you submit a bug report; it will save us a lot of needless double-checking.

  Acknowledgments:

  A number of our readers have provided us with feedback, comments, and constructive criticism. We have put together an acknowledgment page that lists everyone who contributed. Thank you for helping us to make this a better book!

  Easter Eggs:

  The book contains two Easter eggs. In April 1999, we held a competition, asking people to hunt for the eggs. Here are the results of the Easter Egg Hunt.

  Where to Buy On-Line:

  In the US:

  Amazon, Barnes and Noble, fatbrain.com, Quantum

  In Australia:

  McGills, ozbooks.com

  In the UK:

  Amazon UK

  In Germany:

  Amazon Germany

  In France:

  Amazon France

• Binding, Migration, and Scalability in CORBA

  This is an article I submitted for the October 1998 issue of CACM. It explains how binding and implementation repositories work in CORBA, and discusses how the design of implementation repositories determines factors such as scalability, performance, and granularity of object migration. The article also explores some issues relating to garbage collection of CORBA objects.

• How does binding work in CORBA?

  This is an article I posted to comp.object.corba in September 1997. It explains how a CORBA client can bootstrap, and how the implementation repository and the client-side run time cooperate to locate the correct implementation for an object. This article sparked off the much more elaborate explanations presented in the CACM article.

• Waste Not, Want Not—A Proposal for Shorter IORs

  This paper describes an alternative encoding for IORs that is more compact than the OMG format. Free source is included.

• Bibliography

  This bibliography includes a few other bits and pieces I have written over the years.

• The OMG Web Site

  You can find the full CORBA specification there, as well as have a look at what's currently brewing in the CORBA world. There is also lots of other information, such as CORBA success stories, press releases, a "CORBA for Beginners" section, and links to other CORBA sites.

• Douglas Schmidt's Home Page

  Lots of CORBA related information, research papers, benchmark results, and the CORBA articles that Doug and Steve Vinoski have published in the C++ Report.

• Cetus Links on CORBA

  A jump page with lots of links to CORBA information.

• Golf, jazz, reading, cycling, cooking, sushi, wine

Frequently, people ask me how to pronounce my name. Quite a lot of speculation has been circulating around this topic, including musings about the relative "gutturalness" of the Scottish "ch" (as in "Loch") versus the Bavarian "ch" (as in "Kochtopf" ;-) To settle the argument once and for all, I decided to put up a wave file with myself speaking my name. I figured that this would be the definitive answer to how to pronounce my name, seeing (or, more accurately, hearing) that this is how I pronounce it myself :-)