Crossware from Netscape Corp.
Netscape is the major promoter of the Object Web
Netscape believes IIOP will integrate anti-Microsoft coalition to successfully compete with DCOM/ActiveX
All Netscape browser and server products are coming with built-in IIOP support
Other browsers can acquire ORB capabilities by downloading suitable ORBlets as applets
- Note in CORBA, one has server capability on all clients and so you invoke the ORB on your client and them get to remote objects around the web
Integration of the 3-tier Object Web with JavaBeans via JavaScript based Bean-Connect technology towards Crossware (see next slide) is under way
Crossware is more of a CORBA enabled object web “philosophy” than a product