OnJava.com: Microsoft .NET vs. J2EE: How Do They Stack Up?
- Jim Farley, author of Java Distributed Computing and co-author of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell gives answers on what exactly the .NET platform is and how the .NET architecture measures up against J2EE.
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/farley_0800.html

Making Sense of Distributed Objects
- An assessment of COM, CORBA, and Java/RMI, by David Chappell.
- http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_Sense_Dist_Objects.html

On Being Object-Oriented: COM and CORBA
- A comparison of COM and CORBA, by David Chappell.
- http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_COM_and_CORBA.html

ActiveX Controls vs. JavaBeans
- Compares ActiveX controls against JavaBeans, by David Chappell.
- http://www.chappellassoc.com/articles/article_ActiveX_v_JavaBean.html

Toolkit Comparison
- Compares the same program, Klotski, written in Gtk, Qt and PyQT. Descriptions, code samples, tables, statistics, humor. [Open Source]
- http://phil.freehackers.org/kde/cmp-toolkits.html

DCOM and CORBA Side by Side, Step By Step, and Layer by Layer
- DCOM/CORBA Comparison.
- http://research.microsoft.com/~ymwang/papers/HTML/DCOMnCORBA/S.html