I had successfully forgotten about CORBA. Ah, the golden days.

Funny thing about the way the company I worked for at the time picked up CORBA. One of our leads left for another company, was there about 7-8 months, couldn't stand it, and came back to us. But during that time he'd picked up CORBA at the other place and then imposed it on us.

That's what happens when you hire people back!

We had a project mixing C++ CORBA servers with Perl ones, running on HP-UX. Not funny to debug.

What about a hipster NoSQL DB called MongoDB?

MongoDB isn't an application server. It's a database engine.

It is an application that makes use of a database engine, exposing data access services, either locally or via the network as a server.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but to me, an application server is something that you write programs for in a general-purpose programming language - that's how databases (where code is written in sql or something similar) don't qualify. Programs that run within application servers are written in langauges like Java and C#.

To my knowledge, there are no app servers designed to run code written in C++. Certainly, none that are mainstream.

Is IIS mainstream enough then?

http://www.iis.net/learn/develop/runtime-extensibility/devel...