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Foil 12 The Object Request Broker (ORB)

From A Scalable Framework for Seamless Computing Seamless Computing Birds of Feather SC97 -- 18 Nov 97. by Mark Baker Portsmouth
The ORB is the object bus.
Basically it lets objects make requests - and receive responses from - other objects located locally or remotely.
Client objects need not be aware of the mechanism for communicating with remote server objects.

© on Mon Nov 24 1997