Distributed CORBA Objects have found their killer app. It's the Object Webor the marriage of distributed objects and the Internet. The major computing companiesincluding Sun, JavaSoft, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Oracle, BEA, and HPhave chosen CORBA IIOP as their common way to connect distributed objects across the Internet and intranets. Consequently, CORBA is about to become as ubiquitous as TCP/IP. Instant CORBA is your quick guide to understanding this revolutionary new technology. If you're in a real hurry, this book even provides a condensed tour that will make you CORBA literate in four hours or less. Written in a friendly and witty style, this comprehensive book covers: The Object Webor how CORBA/IIOP, Java, and the Internet are coming together Everything you need to know about a CORBA 2. 0 ORB The 15 CORBA Object Servicesincluding Transactions, Trader, Security, Naming, Events, Time, and Collections. These services provide the next step in the evolution of distributed objects. CORBA's Dynamic Object Facilities such as Callbacks, Dynamic Invocations, Object Introspection, and the Interface Repository Next-generation ORB technology-including CORBA 3. 0's. Messaging, Pass-by-Value, and Server-Side Frameworks The marriage of CORBA with MOM and TP Monitors Forthcoming CORBA attractions such as mobile agents, shippable places, and the business object framework Products such as Iona's OrbixWeb, Netscape/Visigenic's VisiBroker, and Sun's NEO/JOE. The authors have written many best-selling books, including The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide and The Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Second Edition, which won Software Development's Jolt Award for the best book of 1994, in its first edition. Their most recent book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA.