One critical development in the distributed objects domain is the IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol), mandatory in CORBA2 and offering a new server-to-server communication standard between commercial ORBs from various vendors. |
In another critical recent development, the Web industry realized that Java and CORBA are 'made for each other' and Java based ORBs are now popping everywhere. |
'Java based ORB' is a CORBA2 compliant ORB written exclusively in Java, and hence fully portable and ready to run also on the Wintel platform, where distributed objects were so far under control of Microsoft DCOM/ActiveX model. |