Corba

This page was thrown together as a reference to go along with my CORBA talk at LULA, 19 Feb 2002.

CORBA Books

"Advanced CORBA Programming with C++", by Henning and Vinoski. Publisher's page, Amazon's page. Published in 1999; the first good Corba book.
"Pure Corba" by Fintan Bolton. Author's page, Amazon's page. Published in 2001.
"MICO: An Open Source CORBA Implementation", by Puder and Roemer. Author's page (good links!), Amazon's page. Short and sweet.

OmniOrb, a free implementation in C++ and Python.
See also the omniorb-list archives at AIMS.
MICO, a GPL'd implementation in C++.
See also the mico-devel archives at AIMS.
ORBit, a GPL'd implementation.
See also the orbit-list archives at gnome.org.
TAO, a free implementation in C++, based on the ACE C++ network programming framework. A commercially supported version is available from OCI.
See also the tao-users archives at yahoo.
JACOrb, a GPL'd implementation in Java.
See also the jacorb-developer archives at spline.de.

CorbaWeb - a generic gateway between Corba and the World Wide Web. Implementation of CORBAScript.
Java IDL Script - Implementation of CORBAScript. Written in Java. Includes a generic CORBA Object browser which can browse both the naming service and the interface repository.
ENames - a java application which lets you browse the CORBA naming service.
Ethereal - a network sniffer that can symbolically display CORBA requests. Very cool.

Sun's "Introduction to CORBA", December 1999
Douglas Schmidt's Corba Tutorials page.
Mike Olson's "Introduction to CORBA", Linuxworld, 1999: part 1, part 2.
J. Mark Shacklette and Jeff Illian's "CORBA Program Development", 1999: part 1, part 2, part 3.
Philip Crotwell's Corba Practicum from the Orfeus Java workshop in France, May 2000
Benoit Marchal's "How to Write CORBA Objects", ZDNet, July 2001
Duncan Grisby's Implementing a CORBA Client and Server in Python, October 2001
Duncan Grisby's Distributed Applications with CORBA, presented at the Tenth International Python Conference, February 2002
Iona's ORBacus for C++ Training Material

Brainbench.com has CORBA 2.3 tests for C++ and Java. Cost is $100 for six-month all-you-can eat access to their tests. IMHO not a bad price.