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In the CORBA model, software is published as a collection of object services, conforming to well-defined interfaces stored in repositories, implementable in a variety of programming languages, and remotely accessible from a variety of platforms and client languages.
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Note that to be precise, only languages that have IDL binding/compiler support can be used directly in CORBA but their list grows and currently includes:
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C, C++, Cobol, Smalltalk, Ada, Java.
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Many HPCC packages are not object-oriented but CORBA supports C to IDL bindings which allows to wrap and publish non-object software as a collection of remote objects.
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Can do Fortran similarly and Fortran90 (HPF) is even object oriented and easier
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CORBA allows one to promote existing Fortran/HPF/C++/MPI etc codes to become well documented components to be used in modern object ComponentWare system
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We suggest that CORBA based repackaging of NHSE HPCC libraries would broaden substantially the market acceptance of this software.
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Fits nicely with Netsolve and NEOS network-enabled servers
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