1 | The strength of CORBA stems from a solid core, augmented by a broad family of standardized interfaces, developed over the last 7 years by OMG |
2 | The core layer is given by the ORB model and the associated support to enable remote object invocation |
3 | On top of the ORB layer, CORBA offers the Common Object Services (COS) layer |
4 | On top of the COS layer, CORBA offers Common (Horizontal) and Vertical Market Facilities |
5 | The whole collection is functionally equivalent to an object-oriented distributed operating system |