I like CORBA. I really do. But it is a sad fact that most other people
don't seem to, apart from maybe the people that hang out here. So I
was wondering, what can be done to make CORBA more appealing for java
programmers? I think there is nothing that can be done for C++. The
language binding is just too awful. That's way projects like ICE
(http://www.zeroc.com/) were started. But the binding is ok for java.
Despite this, I see java projects that started with CORBA are all
trying to move away from it. Sometimes they move to JMS solutions
instead and they get all sorts of performance problems as a result.

CORBA offers all sorts of services that help with enterprise
solutions, such as messaging, load balancing, various COS services etc
etc. And the performance is quite respectable. You just don't get this
with RMI. But the complaints I hear most often are that CORBA skills
are hard to find, it is obscure (i.e. not mainstream) and developers
don't want to learn it due to lack of demand. What can be done?

Regards,

Andrew Marlow