9. CORBA Trader - Overview I
We discuss here one Object Web repository technology - CORBA Trading Service - recently published by OMG as one of the (fifteen)Common CORBA Services.
CORBA Trader or Trading Service acts as a yellow page service for CORBA objects, allowing publishers to advertise their services and customers to shop for the best, most adequate implementations of required functionality's.
Early implementations of the Trader Service have started to appear on the ORB market.
By the end of '97, most major ORB vendors (DEC, IBM, Sun, HP, IONA, Expertsoft, ICL, Visigenic) will offer Trader Service support.