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Foil 33 What is CORBA?

From JavaBeans CORBA ComponentWare UC Web applications Certificate -- Aug 11,14 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an Object Bus based distributed computing environment
CORBA standards are developed since by OMG (Object Management Group) of some 700 companies (including IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, Netscape)
Cross-language support is provided by architecture-neutral IDL (Interface Description Language)
Cross-platform support is provided by IDL-&#062Native Language pre-compilers that generate platform-specific ORB servers, exporting IDL interfaces

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