20 Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

20.14 Summary

The primary purpose of this chapter is to describe CORBA, which provides standards for distributed objects. First time in the history of computing that standards are defined first before the products are developed and in universally accepted by all the major computer companies except Microsoft. CORBA addresses issues on distributed computing and gives a solution for interoperability between heterogenous systems and applications. This chapter starts discussing about needs for standards for distributed objects, about OMG, the Object Request Broker and the various components that comprise CORBA. It discusses in depth about the two method invocations and finally on certain issues of distributed computing not addressed by CORBA.

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