OMG CORBA and OODCE Documents and Papers

The following are documents that explain various aspects of CORBA and related distributed object computing middleware.

• Steve Vinoski's article on New Features for CORBA 3.0, Communications of the ACM, October, 1998.

• Steve Vinoski's article on CORBA: Integrating Diverse Applications Within Distributed Heterogeneous Environments, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 2, February, 1997.

• Distributed Object Computing with CORBA by Steve Vinoski

  Steve published this article in C++ Report before we teamed up to write the Object Interconnections column. It gives a nice overview of the main features in CORBA and how they work.

• A paper comparing the features and performance of Orbix, VisiBroker, TAO, and OmniOrb.

• Another paper comparing the performance of IONA's Orbix, Inprise's VisiBroker, BEA's M3, and TAO.

• Thomas Brando's excellent paper Comparing DCE and CORBA.

• Ron Resnick's excellent paper on Bringing Distributed Objects to the WWW.

• UNO interoperability spec

  This document explains how CORBA 2.0 enables ORBs from different vendors to interoperate.

• IONA Orbix architecture overview

  This white paper gives an overview of how the IONA Orbix CORBA implementation is designed.

• OODCE programmers manual

  This document explains how to program OODCE, which is a product sold by HP that provides a set of C++ wrappers to encapsulate OSF DCE.

• Supporting Interoperability in CORBA via Object Services

  This paper examines the main issues related to implementing the CORBA Persistence, Events, and Replication services.

• Implementing CORBA Persistence Object Services

  This paper discusses the benefits and drawbacks of reusing other CORBA object services, particularly replication and externalization, to support the persistent service.

• Lessons Learned from Implementing the CORBA Persistence Object Services

  In this paper, the authors share their experiences gathered during the design and implementation of the CORBA Persistent Object Service.

• Things missing from the CORBA Persistence Object Services

  This paper summarizes the weaknesses of the CORBA Persistent Object Service standard.

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