Glossary of Terms III
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.
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.
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.