The marriage of distributed objects and the Web is where enterprise computing is heading. And the battlelines have already been drawn, with Microsoft's COM/DCOM and Active X platform vying with CORBA and Java/Javabeans, the choice of Sun, JavaSoft, Netscape, IBM and others. This book by the acknowledge gurus of Distributed objects offers the ultimate overview of both sides of these object wars, describing the benefits and drawbacks of each component and offering strong opinions on the merits of each platform. And of course, the Martians will be along for the ride.