Written for experienced C + + developer facing real-world CORBA for the first time, Advanced CORBA Programming with C + + is a useful guide to the current most popular standard for distributed computing. After a brief tour of basic CORBA, direct writers start with a minimum skeleton application written in C + +. Material to the Portable Object Adapter and the Object Life Cycle, including garbage collection strategies, rounds of this section. The authors also present CORBA's built-in APIs for Naming, Trading, and Event Services (including asynchronous event handling), the most useful as reference material. Final sections examine strategies for better scalability, including multithreading and optimizing network traffic for CORBA objects.