Chapter 21 What is CORBA

What is CORBA?

CORBA, or Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is a standard architecture for

distributed object systems. It allows a distributed, heterogeneous collection of objects to
interoperate.

The OMG

The Object Management Group (OMG) is responsible for defining CORBA. The OMG
comprises over 700 companies and organizations, including almost all the major vendors
and developers of distributed object technology, including platform, database, and
application vendors as well as software tool and corporate developers.

What is CORBA?

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) from the Object Management
Group (OMG) provides a platform-independent, language-independent architecture for
writing distributed, object-oriented applications. CORBA objects can reside in the same
process, on the same machine, down the hall, or across the planet. The Java language is an
excellent language for writing CORBA programs. Some of the features that account for this
popularity include the clear mapping from OMG IDL to the Java programming language, and
the Java runtime environment's built-in garbage collection.

The OMG

The Object Management Group (OMG) is responsible for defining CORBA. The OMG
comprises over 700 companies and organizations, including almost all the major vendors and
developers of distributed object technology, including platform, database, and application
vendors as well as software tool and corporate developers.

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