OrbixWeb by Orbix - so far the industry leader in CORBA technology |
JavaIDL from JavaSoft with Joe ORBlet and NEO ORB server |
RMI - a 'provocative' (since non-CORBA) Java-to-Java only ORB from JavaSoft |
Caffeine - an RMI-like API on top of VisiBroker, developed by Netscape and Visigenic, and to be bundled with all Netscape ONE based browsers and servers. |
Meanwhile, Microsoft is tightly coupling the development of Visual J++ (Microsoft Java) with their DCOM/ActiveX ORB model. Hence, the distributed objects domain becomes now the primary competition area between Microsoft and the rest of the Web industry. |