CORBA Links

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Fundamentals

• A Brief Tutorial on CORBA
• OMG Home Page
• The CORBA FAQ --- Frequently Asked Questions
• CORBA Introductory
  Well-organized site with basic general information and programming examples as well as references to books, documentation, FAQs, mailing lists, newsgroups, related sites etc.

CORBA Papers

• Information Resources on CORBA and the OMG
• Full CORBA2.0 specification
• Distributed Object Computing and CORBA Documents
  very well structured comprehensive information related with CORBA
• CORBA Documentation
  well-structured site with CORBA-related information
• CORBA/C++ Report Columns
  CORBA/C++ papers
• Corba-Dev Archive by thread
• Corba Archive by date
  
• Corba Developers Forum
• CORBA Special Issues
  An excellent well-organized site with up-to-date and comprehensive list of CORBA-related links!
• Interoperability between omniORB2 and Java ORBs
• Load Distribution for CORBA Environments

Benchmarks and Comparisons

• DCOM and CORBA Side by Side, Step By Step, and Layer by Layer
  A very comprehensive comparison of CORBA and DCOM
• yet another ORB evaluation
  Critical review on most popular ORB implementations
• The Ten Essential Criteria (ORB evaluation)
  Comparison of 9 most popular ORB implementations
• Comparing ActiveX and CORBA/IIOP
• Notes on OLE and CORBA, What OLE Is Really About
• ORB Core Feature Matrix
  
• CORBAservices Feature Matrix
  
• CORBA Vendor Platform Matrix
  

Products

• "Open Blueprint Technical Overview" COVER, IBM Open Blueprint Architecture
• Welcome to IONA Technologies, Orbix Technical Papers,Iona Technologies - Support - Knowledge Base,IONA Orbix Cookbook
• Visigenic Software
  

Free ORBs

• Linux CORBA Reference & Evaluation
• Inter-Language Unification - ILU
• Object-Oriented Technologies Ltd (a free ORB)
• JacORB - free Java ORB!
• Free C++ ORB
  Supports Solaris, Linux, Windows; CORBA 2.0 compliant
• The Free CORBA page
  A list of free CORBA implementations available through the net
• Network-, Systems- and Application Management Overview
  Free CORBA products list
• Olivetti Research Lab's omniORB2
  One of the best freely available CORBA implementations
• Flick: The Flexible IDL Compiler Kit
  

CORBA Services

• CORBA Services
• OMG Trader Project - Documents
• Trader Information
• Joint Business Object Proposal
  The Common Business Object and The Component Definition Language (CDL) specification proposal
• Ennio's papers
• Transarc Corporation
• OMG TC Work in Progress
  Some papers concerning Transaction Service on CORBA
• Secant Persistent Object Manager
  OMG POS implementation
  

Last modified 27.04.1998