Java ORB Approaches to Distributed Objects The object web awakens!
Of particular interest are Java based ORBs or ORBlets which can be downloaded as applets to enable CORBA capabilities also at the client/browser side.
An alternative, offered by Netscape, is a resident ORB support in all browser and server products.
Java based ORBs will soon turn the Web, so far acting as a largely passive document publishing framework, into a powerful dynamic world-wide distributed object-based computing environment.
This implies servers that combine role of Web Servers and object brokers and link HTTP RMI and IIOP protocols (and perhaps also COM!)