title: Is there anything better than CORBA for interlanguage program communication?
body: <p>I'm on a project using CORBA to read the data of objects that could be implemented in C++ or Java but conform to the same IDL. The pros are the idlj compiler and all the necessary code came free with Java. The con seems to be that I hear quite a bit that CORBA is old and not the latest and greatest. But I haven't heard names for anything that is better. Is there?</p>