Rmi Vs Corba

JavaRemoteMethodInvocation and CommonObjectRequestBrokerArchitecture share a great deal in common. The main difference is that RMI stubs must interface to a Java interface, while CORBA stubs interface to a special interface language called InterfaceDefinitionLanguage. There's a lot more to it than just this, of course.

See http://www.javasoft.com/docs/books/tutorial/idl/summary/index.html for another overview of RMI vs CORBA. Including some future directions.