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Foil 70 Glossary of Terms III

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) General Research -- June-December 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 OMG (Object Management Group)
  • OMG is the organization of over 700 companies that is developing CORBA through a process of call for proposals and development of consensus standards.
2 ORB (Object Request Broker)
  • Used in both clients and servers in CORBA to enable the remote access to objects. ORB's are available from many vendors and communicate via the IIOP protocol.
3 IIOP (Internet Inter Orb Protocol)
  • A stateful protocol allowing CORBA ORB's to communicate with each other, and transfer both the request for a desired service and the returned result.

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