The latest release of CORBA boasts many new features that were highly anticipated by developers, including all of the necessary services for building fully distributed applications regardless of platform or programming language. Written by a leading international authority on CORBA and the bestselling author of CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming, Second Edition (0-471-29518-3), this book delivers on its title, providing a quick and easy-to-understand reference to CORBA 3 for developers who just need the basics to the upgrade--and don't have the time to read a huge reference guide. After reviewing the features grouped under the CORBA 3 banner, Siegel goes on to describe the integration of CORBA with Java and the Internet, mapping XML to OMG IDL, messaging, QoS control including specializations for Real-Time and embedded systems, and the CORBA Component Model (CCM).

Table of Contents

	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	About the Author
	Trademarks
	Prologue: CORBA and Distributed Computing Grow Up Together	1
Pt. I	Integration with Java and the Internet	15
Ch. 1	The valuetype, and the Java-to-IDL Mapping	23
Ch. 2	Mapping XML to CORBA	45
Ch. 3	Interoperable Naming Service	93
Pt. II	Quality-of-Service Control	111
Ch. 1	Additions to CORBA Interoperability	119
Ch. 2	Quality-of-Service Policies	153
Ch. 3	Real-Time CORBA	163
Ch. 4	Fault Tolerant CORBA	171
Ch. 5	minimumCORBA	187
Pt. III	CCM and Supporting Specifications	195
Ch. 1	The Portable Object Adapter (POA)	199
Ch. 2	The Persistent State Service (PSS)	225
Ch. 3	CORBA Component Model	237
Pt. IV	Specifications Supporting Modeling and Design	291
Ch. 1	Modeling Distributed Applications with UML	297
Ch. 2	Implementing Metamodels and Repositories Using the Meta Object Facility	315
Ch. 3	Expanding OMG's Reach: The Model-Driven Architecture	333
	App. A: Sources and References	353
	Index	363