Writing high-quality networked applications is difficult - it's expensive, complicated, and error-prone. In order to be successful, software for networked applications must be affordable, extensible, flexible, portable, predictable, efficient, reliable, and scalable. This book picks up where volume one left off, and guides C++ programmers through using the ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE), the most complete toolkit available for networked programming. The first volume focused on problem solving and understanding ACE. This second volume focuses on reuse and frameworks. Both volumes are modeled on Richard Stevens' classic UNIX Network Programming. ACE was invented by Doug Schmidt, and is completely open-source. Steve Huston founded a company which provides support for ACE users, and is at the forefront of the growing ACE community.