He begins by describing the transformation of a source file to an executable module, the work of variables as "data containers," the dynamic allocation and de-allocation of memory, functions and function calls, one-dimensional arrays and strings, multi-dimensional arrays, classes and objects, linked data structures, leaks and their debugging, and programs in execution expressed as processes and threads.

(The ORB is not a separate process--in virtually all current implementations, ORB functionality is provided through library routines that are linked into an executable module along with clients and object implementations.

"You must put everything into an executable module with the necessary object code," explained Gary Lelvis, the director of product assembly.