Summary of NPAC’s JWORBnatural Building Block of the Gateway
JWORB - Java Web Object Request Broker - multi-protocol middleware network server (HTTP + IIOP + DCE RPC + RMI transport)
Current prototype integrates HTTP and IIOP i.e. acts as Web Server and CORBA Broker
- HTTP Services built in terms of CORBA services
- Gives you immediately web interfaces to CORBA
- CORBA supports applications in any language
Next step: add DCE RPC support to include Microsoft COM
JWORB - our trial implementation of Pragmatic Object Web
First non DMSO implementation of RTI -- HLA (distributed event driven simulation) Runtime at 5% cost(!)