Provides designers and developers with the tools required to understand CORBA technology at the architectural, design, and source code levels. Includes free IDL-to-C++ mapping and DynAny chapters. (Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski)

By Richard Wiener; Prentice Hall PTR, 1996, ISBN 0131838725. For new computer science students, extant software developers new to OO and/or Eiffel. One of few books in introductory computer science based on OO.

This tutorial is driven by examples which help the novice C++ programmer solve problems in terms of choice of language features, implementation, and efficiency. (Stanley Lippman, Josee Lajoie, Barbara Moo)

A reference about STL by Addison Wesley.

The book provides an introduction to and overview of component software. Covers MS (D)COM(+), OMG CORBA, IBM SOM as well as more theoretical programming language aspects. By Clemens Szyperski, Addison-Wesley.

The book is about the processes required to implement component-based development. By George T. Heineman and William T. Councill, Addison-Wesley.

This book provides an in-depth overview of underlying principles as well as practical techniques that can be used to design concurrent programs. (Greg Andrews)

By Wesley J. Chun; Prentice Hall PTR, 2001, ISBN 0130260363. For experienced developers to improve extant skills; professional level examples. Starts by introducing syntax, objects, error handling, functions, classes, built-ins. [Prentice Hall]

By Jean-Paul Tremblay, Grant A. Cheston; Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0137879466, has CD-ROM. Basics of: data structures from arrays and lists to balanced trees, graphs, files; OO software engineering using UML.

By Wilf R. Lalonde; Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0805327207. An introduction to language, detailed coverage of fundamental object-oriented programming concepts: objects, parts, methods, classes, inheritance. [Addison-Wesley]