Provides designers and developers with the tools required to understand CORBA technology at the architectural, design, and source code levels. Includes free IDL-to-C++ mapping and DynAny chapters. (Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski)

Overview of CORBA, including all of the features added with details of the Object Management Architecture's CORBAservices and CORBAfacilities, including specifications in the CORBAdomains. (Jon Siegel)

Covers IIOP specifics including CDR, HTTP-NG message protocol patterns, message stream patterns, and object adapter patterns. (William Ruh, Thomas Herron and Paul Klinker)

A complete guide to building powerful business applications in Java using CORBA-based distributed objects. Includes "A First Java ORB Application" sample chapter. (Gerald Brose, Andreas Vogel and Keith Duddy)

Shows how to build and manage CORBA applications using MICO, and includes a CD with compiled binaries for various platforms along with the complete source code. (Arno Puder and Kay Römer)

A code-intensive reference for professional developers. It focuses on the core specification for CORBA 3. (Fintan Bolton)

Explains the base architecture as well as the services and facilities that extend this architecture. (Alan Pope)