Microsoft .NET vs. J2EE: How Do They Stack Up? What exactly is the .NET platform and how does the .NET architecture measure up against J2EE? By Jim Farley, author of Java Distributed Computing and co-author of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell. http://www.javasoft.com/features/2000/11/dotnetvsms.html

Comparing Microsoft Transaction Server to Enterprise JavaBeans Provides a comparison between MTS and Enterprise JavaBeans. The two models are compared in terms of transactions support, controlling complexity, portability, interoperability, language choice and administration. By Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/com/wpaper/mts-ejb.asp

CORBA no match for Microsoft's DCOM, Ovum report says The article discusses the Ovum report titled "Ovum Evaluates: Object Request Brokers". (Ron Condon / ComputerWorld) http://www.computerworld.com/news/1997/story/0,11280,21627,00.html

DCOM and CORBA Side by Side, Step By Step, and Layer by Layer DCOM/CORBA Comparison. http://www.research.microsoft.com/~ymwang/papers/HTML/DCOMnCORBA/S.html

Toolkit Comparison Compares the same program, Klotski, written in Gtk, Qt and PyQT. Descriptions, code samples, tables, statistics, humor. [Open Source] http://phil.freehackers.org/kde/cmp-toolkits.html

A Detailed Comparison of CORBA, DCOM and Java/RMI Feature-by-feature comparison of the differences between CORBA, DCOM, and Java/RMI, with a simple source code example reimplemented in each. By Gopalan Suresh Raj. http://www.execpc.com/~gopalan/misc/compare.html

COM versus CORBA: A Decision Framework The discussion is organized as the following sections: approach, enterprise architecture, background, comparison, and conclusion. The comparison identifies the criteria for specification, object model, services, platform and tool support, and maturity. (Owen Tallman and J. Bradford Kain) http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1924/cp3025/distrib/reading/corba/corba3/corba6.html

ActiveX Controls vs. JavaBeans Compares ActiveX controls against JavaBeans, by David Chappell. http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_ActiveX_v_JavaBean.html

On Being Object-Oriented: COM and CORBA A comparison of COM and CORBA, by David Chappell. http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_COM_and_CORBA.html

Making Sense of Distributed Objects An assessment of COM, CORBA, and Java/RMI, by David Chappell. http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_Sense_Dist_Objects.html

UML Components: A Simple Process for Specifying Component-Based Software The book covers requirements definition, component identification, component interaction, component specification, and provisioning and assembly stages of a component-based software development lifecycle. By John Cheesman and John Daniels, Addison-Wesley. http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0201708515,00.html