This book provides a broad overview of CORBA as well as the detailed technical information necessary to fully understand CORBA; introduces the principles of distributed computing and how CORBA permits interoperability across networks, operating systems and programming languages; develops a running example to illustrate the most important features of the standard; covers advanced CORBA features such as dynamic invocations and the CORBAservices; and also advanced Orbix features such as filters and thread support; discusses some of the other technologies that can be integrated with CORBA, such as OLE and databases; and briefly illustrates the Java-based OrbixWeb.