Shows an alternative approach to supporting reflection in CORBA. The basic approach involves having each object returns its own metadata, rather than relying on an external service, such as the IFR.

This column discusses a hybrid publisher/subscriber and request/response distribution architecture that uses CCM features to implement stock-quoter example.

Explores features that allow distributed real-time and embedded applications to select protocol properties and to explicitly bind clients to server objects using pre-allocated connections, priority bands, and private connections.

Shows C++ code examples that illustrate how to program the real-time CORBA priority mechanisms.

Describes real-time CORBA's support for thread pools and synchronizers.

Covers the basics of the DII (Dynamic Invocation Interface), the client-side interface used for dynamic CORBA applications.

Summarizes the motivation for the new type qualifier restrict and explains how to use it. Also shows a way to check how well compilers exploit the possibilities of restrict. (C/C++ Users Journal)

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the evolving C++0x standard, the education of programmers, and the future of programming.

It's common practice to use assertions to check invariants at runtime, but assertions can be equally useful at compile time for doing things like checking arrays for proper size and order.

An article in the C/C++ Users Journal by Matthew Austern.