What is CORBA?
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is an architecture and specification for creating, distributing, and managing distributed program objects in a network. It allows programs at different locations and developed by different vendors to communicate in a network through an "interface broker”.
Introduction to CORBA
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/corba/corba.html
This short course will teach you how to use CORBA as found in the Java 2 platform
CORBA Basics
http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm
If You Want To Understand CORBA, This Is The Place To Start!
Introduction to the networking of distributed objects & the use of CORBA.
http://www.academictutorials.com/corba/
Introduction to CORBA
http://www.javacommerce.com/displaypage.jsp?name=index.sql&id=18212
You should be getting a good idea as to what is CORBA and how it can be used to develop applications. You should also have compiled and run a real time application.
CORBA Program Development, Part 1
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3201
CORBA Program Development, Part 2
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3213
CORBA Program Development, Part 3
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3214
CORBA Tutorial
http://www.grisby.org/presentations/py10code.html
This provides the source code described in `Distributed Applications with CORBA', a tutorial presented at the Tenth International Python Conference.