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Foil 106 Java ORB Approaches to Distributed Objects The object web awakens!

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
Of particular interest are Java based ORBs or ORBlets which can be downloaded as applets to enable CORBA capabilities also at the client/browser side.
An alternative, offered by Netscape, is a resident ORB support in all browser and server products.
Java based ORBs will soon turn the Web, so far acting as a largely passive document publishing framework, into a powerful dynamic world-wide distributed object-based computing environment.
This implies servers that combine role of Web Servers and object brokers and link HTTP RMI and IIOP protocols (and perhaps also COM!)

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