Protecting the infrastructure: 3rd Australian information warfare & security conference 2002

The conference is hosted by the We-B Centre (working with a-business) in the School of Management Information System, the School of Computer & Information Sciences at Edith Cowan University. This year\u27s conference is being held at the Sheraton Perth Hotel in Adelaide Terrace, Perth. Papers for this conference have been written by a wide range of academics and industry specialists. We have attracted participation from both national and international authors and organisations. The papers cover many topics, all within the field of information warfare and its applications, now and into the future. The papers have been grouped into six streams: • Networks • IWAR Strategy • Security • Risk Management • Social/Education • Infrastructur

Using Java and CORBA for Implementing Internet Databases

We describe an architecture called WebFINDIT that allows dynamic couplings of Web accessible databases based on their content and interest. We propose an implementation using WWW, Java, JDBC, and CORBA's ORBs that communicate via the CORBA's IIOP protocol. The combination of these technologies offers a compelling middleware infrastructure to implement wide-area enterprise applications. In addition to a discussion of WebFINDIT's core concepts and implementation architecture, we also discuss an experience of using WebFINDIT in a healthcare application. 1 Introduction The growth of the Internet and the Web increased dramatically the need for data sharing. The Web has brought a wave of new users and service providers to the Internet. It contains a huge quantity of heterogeneous information and services (e.g., home pages, online digital libraries, product catalogs, and so on) (Bouguettaya et al. 1998). The result is that the Web is now accepted as the de facto support in all domains of li..