### What This Guide Contains

This guide contains the following chapters:

- Introduction to PolyORB provides a brief description of middleware and PolyORB's architecture.
- Installation details how to configure and install PolyORB on your system.
- Overview of PolyORB personalities enumerates the different personalities, or distribution mechanisms, PolyORB provides.
- Building an application with PolyORB presents the different steps to build a distributed application using PolyORB.
- Tasking model in PolyORB details the use of tasking constructs within PolyORB.
- CORBA describes PolyORB's implementation of OMG's CORBA.
- RT-CORBA describes PolyORB's implementation of RT-CORBA, the real-time extensions of OMG's CORBA.
- DSA describes PolyORB's implementation of the Ada Distributed Systems Annex.
- MOMA describes PolyORB's implementation of MOMA, the Message Oriented Middleware for Ada.
- AWS describes the integration of the Ada Web Server (AWS) framework into PolyORB.
- GIOP describes PolyORB's implementation of GIOP, the protocol defined as part of CORBA.
- SOAP describes PolyORB's implementation of SOAP.
- Tools describes PolyORB's tools.
- Conformance to standards discusses the conformance of the PolyORB's personalities to the CORBA and SOAP standards.
- References provides a list of useful references to complete this documentation.
- GNU Free Documentation License contains the text of the license under which this document is being distributed.