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Availability

You can get this book, free of charge, from www.CiaranMcHale.com. The download page on the web site, (www.CiaranMcHale.com/download), provides links to download the book in the following formats:

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Copyright

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this book to use, copy, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the book, and to permit persons to whom the book is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the book.
Although the authors have taken care in the preparation of this book, they make no express or implied warranty of any kind and assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the use of the information contained herein. All opinions expressed in this book are solely those of the authors.

This version of the book was produced on February 27, 2007.

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Orbix, Orbacus, IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. Java, J2EE, JavaBean and Write Once, Run Everywhere are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. TAO is a trademark or registered trademark of Washington University. IBM, MQ Series, OS/390 and AS/400 are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. COM and .NET are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft. Open VMS is a trademark or registered trademark of Hewlett Packard. TIBCO Rendezvous is s trademark or registered trademark of TIBCO. Amazon.com is a trademark or registered trademark of Amazon.com Inc. wxWindows is a trademark or registered trademark of wxWindows Software Foundation. Windows is a trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Berkeley DB is a trademark or registered trademark of Sleepycat Software, Inc. Linux is a trademark or registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mac OS X is a trademark or registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks that appear herein are the property of their respective owners.