The CORBA standard for distributed object computing continues to find new adherents, both in the vendor and user communities. More than a few industry observers have asked, however, if CORBA should ...

Fearful of Microsoft's desktop domination, Corba backers have jumped on the Java bandwagon as a way of infiltrating the desktop. The theory goes that as Java transcends the native operating system, ...

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For many corporations, today’s heterogeneous software environments require interoperability between platforms that extends beyond the loose coupling provided by Web services. As an alternative, CORBA ...

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) are important for developing mission-critical business applications in Java. However, business applications don’t exist in isolation; today, companies require integrated ...

In Part I of this series on CORBA, we presented a brief look at CORBA, what it is and how it used. In Part II we are going to look at two advanced features of CORBA. The first feature we are going to ...

Java remains a hot topic, as evidenced by the goings-on at last month's Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Francisco. Real-time Java performance is improving to the point where it matches ...

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CORBA Event Service used to be the middleware of choice for handling distributed callbacks. Now there's CORBA Notification Service, and it's improved the whole process. When client/server programs ...