Corba Orb Vendors:
http://www.visigenic.com/ VisiBroker ORB for Java and VisiBroker ORB for C++ http://www.iona.com/ Orbix ORB and OrbixWeb http://www.expersoft.com/ Powerbroker http://www.beasys.com/ Objectbroker and Iceberg http://www.icl.co.uk/dais/home.html DAIS ORB http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/cb/ IBM Component Broker http://www.javasoft.com/ Java IDL
References:
Client/Server Programming with JAVA and CORBA
by Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey http://www.corbajava.engr.sjsu.edu/
Database Programming with JDBC and JAVA by George Reese
JAVA Distributed Programming by Jim Farley
CORBA Fundamentals and Programming by Jon Siegel
Java in a NutShell, Second Edition by David Flanagan
Core Java 1.1 by Cay Horstman and Gary Cornell
Taylor, A.,JDBC Developer's Guide, 1997, Prentice Hall.