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Foil 4 What is CORBA?

From CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Nancy McCracken, Chao-Wei Ou, Shrideep Pallickara
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 500 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
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