1 | CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an Object Bus based distributed computing environment |
2 | CORBA standards are developed since by OMG (Object Management Group) of some 700 companies (including IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, Netscape) |
3 | Cross-language support is provided by architecture-neutral IDL (Interface Description Language) |
4 | Cross-platform support is provided by IDL->Native Language pre-compilers that generate platform-specific ORB servers, exporting IDL interfaces |