1. "IIOP Complete - Understanding CORBA and Middleware Interoperability" by William UH, Thomas Herrorn, Paul Klinker

2. "Advanced CORBA Programming in with C++" by Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski

3. "Java Programming with CORBA 3rd Edition - Advanced Techniques for Building Distributed Applications" by Gerald Brose, Andreas Vogel, and Keith Duddy

4. History of CORBA - http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/history_of_corba.htm
   

5. "CORBA Basics" - http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm
   

6. "Service Disovery 101" by Steve Vinoski
   http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/pdfs/IEEE-Service_Discovery_101.pdf

7. "Object Interconnections: CORBA and XML : SOAP and Web Services" by Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Vinoski
   http://www.cuj.com/experts/1905/vinoski.htm (part 1)
   http://www.cuj.com/experts/1907/vinoski.htm (part 2)
   http://www.cuj.com/experts/1910/vinoski.htm (part 3)

8. "Apache Axis SOAP for Java" by Dennis Sosnoski
   http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/axis/

9. "Web Services/SOAP and CORBA" by Irmen de Jong et al (including yours truly)
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~irmen/comp/CORBA_vs_SOAP.html

10. CORBA Event service
    http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/event_service.htm ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/formal/01-03-01.pdf http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/col9.pdf

11. CORBA Notification service
    http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/notification_service.htm
    ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/formal/00-06-20.pdf
    http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/col10.pdf

12. "Dynamic CORBA" by Douglas Schmidt and Steve Vinoski
    http://www.cuj.com/experts/2007/vinoski.htm (part 1)
    http://www.cuj.com/experts/2009/vinoski.htm (part 2)
    http://www.cuj.com/experts/2011/vinoski.htm (part 3)
    http://www.cuj.com/experts/2101/vinoski.htm (part 4)

13. Reinventing the Wheel? CORBA vs. Web Services
    http://www2002.org/presentations/kumar.pdf

14. All CORBA, UML and MDA Specifications from the OMG
    http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/spec_catalog.htm

15. Douglas Schmidt's (CORBA Guru) home page
    http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/

16. Lockheed Martin's middleware performance comparison page (very neat)
    http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/QoS/
    http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/QoS/compare/dist_oo_compare2.html

17. Here is a benchmark where they used SOAP over RMI and compared it with RMI and raw sockets:
    http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/papers/sc00_paper/index.html
    http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/papers/sc00_paper/node13.html#observations

18. CORBA Implementations Comparison Page
    http://www.puder.org/corba/matrix/