CORBA related stuff

Official CORBA Specification

• The last version of CORBA specification you can take from the WWW site of Object Management Group: http://www.omg.org/library/downinst.html or from a partial mirror with some additional information in Germany ftp://ftp.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/networking/platforms/CORBA/.
• For related literature, have a look at the OMG Reading Room.

Largest collections of links about CORBA

• THE CORBA FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.
Use the closest mirror site: USA, Ukraine, Germany.
• Distributed Object Computing with CORBA.
List of links from Distributed Object Computing Group at the Technical University Vienna.
• Distributed Object Computing with CORBA
Douglas Schmidt's CORBA page. Center for Distributed Object Computing in the Computer Science department at Washington University.
• OMG concepts & CORBA platforms.
A collection of interesting links to information about CORBA and related topics from GMD FOKUS Research Institute for Open Communication Systems.

CORBA Implementations and tools

• The Free CORBA page.
The list of awailable CORBA implementations, their comparison. Also links about Java and Enterprise Java Beans.
• Free CORBA Downloads.
Yet Another page with free CORBA implementations by OMG.
• Linux DCE, CORBA and DCOM Guide.
There is a rich selection of implementations of CORBA for Linux. An information about Microsoft's DCOM & ActiveX for Linux is also available.
• CorbaWeb Home Page
A generic gateway between CORBA and the World Wide Web.

USENET

• The newsgroups comp.object.corba and comp.lang.java.corba.

Recommended books about CORBA

• Steve Vinoski, Michi Henning
  Advanced CORBA Programming with C++.
  (Addison-Wesley professional computing series)
  Addison-Wesley Pub Co, Third printing August, 1999, ISBN 0-201-37927-9
  

  This book includes some usefull hints about the most recent CORBA Specification (Revision 2.3), though written before their release. It gives an overview on CORBA, describes the IDL and the C++-Language-Mapping on an example (through many chapters). There are also a chapters on the POA, Object Live Cycle and communication protocols. Also included are some chapters on 'Dynamic CORBA', the CORBAservices, and multithreaded applications. Finaly there's a chapter on 'Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability'.

• Thomas Mowbray, William A. Ruh.
  Inside Corba : Distributed Object Standards and Applications.
  (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
  Addison-Wesley Pub Co, September 1, 1997, ISBN: 0201895404
  
• Thomas J. Mowbray, Raphael C. Malveau.
  Corba Design Patterns.
  John Wiley & Sons, February 1, 1997, ISBN: 0471158828
  
• Thomas J. Mowbray, Ron Zahavi.
  The Essential Corba : Systems Integration Using Distributed Objects
  John Wiley & Sons, September 1, 1995, ISBN: 0471106119
  
• Alan Pope.
  The Corba Reference Guide : Understanding the Common Object Request Broker Architecture.
  Addison-Wesley Pub Co, December 1, 1997, ISBN: 0201633868
  
• Sean Baker.
  Corba Distributed Objects : Using Orbix.
  Addison-Wesley Pub Co, July, 1997, ISBN: 0201924757
  
• Andreas Voge, Keith Duddy, Andreas Vogel.
  Java Programming With Corba.
  John Wiley & Sons, March 1, 1997, ISBN: 0471179868
  

Where to find these books :

• at Addison
  
• at Wiley
  
• at Amazon