This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Component Deployment, CD 2005, held in Grenoble, France in November 2005 - co-located with Middleware 2005.

The 15 revised full papers and 3 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on middleware integration, patterns for deployment, QoS issues, adaptability, customization and format aware deployment, dependability, assembly and packaging, as well as case studies.