CORBA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORBA
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/corba-overview.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/idl/jidlDistApp.html
http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/publ/reports/TUM-I9735.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1997/jw-12-horb.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/RMI/CreatingApps/index.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2000/jw-02-ssj-xml.html
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/pub/placeless.php3
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-webstart/