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Overview

This chapter gives you a general picture of distributed object development in the Oracle8i JServer. Like the more specific chapters that follow, it focuses on the aspects of Enterprise JavaBeans and CORBA development that are particular to JServer, giving a brief general description of these standard development models.

This chapter also serves as a guide to the remainder of this Guide, pointing out where you can find more specific information.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Prerequisite Reading

• About Enterprise JavaBeans

• About CORBA

• Common Features

• Tools

• Caffeine

• Example Code

• Words About Acronyms

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