Book by Gary DeWard Brown offers A pre-millennial update to the classic COBOL resource, focusing on client/server applications and featuring a hands-on tutorial on implementing object-oriented COBOL.

Overview of CORBA, including all of the features added with details of the Object Management Architecture's CORBAservices and CORBAfacilities, including specifications in the CORBAdomains. (Jon Siegel)

Online companion site to the book, from Wiley, by Vaughn Bullard and Kevin T. Smith. Includes chapter overview, code samples, and errata.

Companion site of a book written by Cliff Figallo, who presents technologies and community development techniques suitable to web-based communities. Includes links to other resources.

A complete guide to building powerful business applications in Java using CORBA-based distributed objects. Includes "A First Java ORB Application" sample chapter. (Gerald Brose, Andreas Vogel and Keith Duddy)

By Rashi Gupta; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471219754. Covers language basics, use for CGI scripting, GUI development, network programming; shows why it is one of more sophisticated of popular scripting languages. [Wiley]

By Suresh Mahadevan; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 047121972X. Hands-on full introduction, how to save much time, many real-world examples, how to move beyond examples to specific tasks, end-of-chapter reviews, exercises.

By Dave Brueck, Stephen Tanner; John Wiley and Sons, 2001, ISBN 0764548077. Full coverage, clear explanations, hands-on examples, full language reference; shows step by step how to use components, assemble them, form full-featured programs. [John Wile...

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Book by Ned Chapin. Covers the new syntax in COBOL-97 and stresses the design that must be done before a COBOL program is written. The text builds on software engineering principles and practices combined with object-oriented technology to enable effe...