Object Web Survival Guide

The marriage of distributed objects and the Web is where enterprise computing is heading. And the battle lines have already been drawn, with Microsoft's COM/DCOM and ActiveX platform vying with CORBA and Java/Java Beans, the choice of Sun, JavaSoft, Netscape, IBM and others. Both sides of these object wars are explored in this book, which describes the benefits and drawbacks of each component and offers strong opinions on the merits of each platform.