One good book is Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA (1997) by Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey published by Wiley (0-471-16351-1): http://www.corbajava.engr.sjsu.edu/Progrmg.htm. It contains extensive sections on both CORBA and JDBC, and the use of CORBA and JDBC to build multi-tier systems. They also compare CORBA with other methods: sockets, HTTP/CGI and RMI. The second edition of this book (0-471-24578-X) ‘with 250 pages of new material’ is due out in February 1998. Working with Jeri Edwards, Orfali and Harkey have three other books in this area: Essential Client/Server Survival Guide (2nd edition 1996), Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide (1996) and Instant CORBA (1997). See http://www.corbajava.engr.sjsu.edu/mbooks.htm.

Prashant Sridharan's book Advanced Java Networking explores the topics covered in this document. Its ISBN is 0-13-749136-0 and it is published by Prentice-Hall: http://www.prenhall.com/.

Sams.net Publishing have several overlapping books on Java, and their Unleashed book keeps moving into new editions. Many of the chapters of Java 1.1 Unleashed Third Edition describe various aspects of client-server computing. Its ISBN is 1-57521-298-6. For more details, see: http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/hg/PRODUCT/PAGE/15752/bud/1575212986.html.

The text of this document is updated from time to time. The latest version is available at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcl0bjc/Java/. This WWW page also contains other documents on Java including a tutorial on Java, an overview of the material of the tutorial and some notes comparing Java and C++.