The texts of the above programs are at http://www.dur.ac.uk/barry.cornelius/papers/IDL/Count/.

Sun's main JavaIDL page is at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/idl/. On that page, you will find links to some useful pages entitled Documentation, Examples, Download/EarlyAccess and Other References. In particular, the Download/EarlyAccess link enables you to download the Early Access Release of JavaIDL for use with JDK 1.0.2 or JDK 1.1.x.

The above code is derived from Sun's Hello example which is subject to the copyright and licensing information given at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/idl/docs/examplelicense.html.

The details of the JavaIDL being released with JDK 1.2 are documented at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/idl/.

In many ways, RMI and CORBA are competing technologies. Sun's position about this is explained at http://java.sun.com/features/1997/nov/rmi.html.