a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA™ or COM/DCOM/COM+. Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications.
Kim Gräsman, January 2004 - how to flow context properties from client to server, and why it works the way it does. Unfortunately, it also unveils a couple of serious limitations.
JCOM is a Java to COM bridge library. With JCOM you can call a COM object from Java as if it were a Java object without having to deal with the internals of JNI.