CORBA Programming Unleashed focuses on the details of CORBA programming most important to developers who are implementing CORBA projects in the real business world. Although the book does discuss how the CORBA standard provides architectures for interoperability, the focus is hands-on. It covers the specific issues involved with using the C++ and Java languages to do CORBA development, such as managing memory with C++ parameters, object references and smart pointers, and mapping Java to the CORBA IDL. The book demonstrates how to build a complex, interoperable CORBA application for implementing a sophisticated electronic business solution across a network that uses both C++ and Java.

• Concentrates on solving the problems of how to actually do serious CORBA development in the real world
• CD-ROM contains trial versions of a number of CORBA tools, JavaSoft's JDK 1.2, and Java IDL