The CORBA example is the most complicated of the examples. It aims to show how to use JDBC & Java2's ORB to access PostgreSQL. To compile: Type "make corba" to build the example. This will create a new directory stock which contains the stubs needed by the orb, and all required classes under the example/corba directory. To run: NOTE: To run, you will need 3 shells on Win32 (under unix you can get away with two shells): 1: Start the naming service Unix: tnameserv -ORBInitialPort 1050 & Win32: tnameserv -ORBInitialPort 1050 2: Start the StockServer java example.corba.StockServer 3 jdbc:postgresql:dbase user passwd -ORBInitialPort 1050 Where: 3 Number of concurrent sessions to allow dbase The database (including a hostname if required) user The PostgreSQL user name passwd The password 3: Using a fresh shell, run the client: java example.corba.StockClient -ORBInitialPort 1050