CORBA
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is a set of
the necessary standard interfaces for Distributed Object Computing
developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), founded in May 1989 by eight companies: 3Com Corporation, American Airlines, Canon, Inc., Data General, Hewlett-Packard, Philips
Telecommunications N.V., Sun Microsystems and Unisys Corporation.
OMG is an independant, non-profit corporation committed
to
developing technically excellent, commercially viable and vendor independent specifications for the software industry.
It now has over 800 members.
CORBA allows objects to interact in a heterogeneous, distributed environment,
independent of the platforms on which these objects reside and techniques used to implement them.
There are many implementations of CORBA currently available; they vary in the degree of CORBA compliance, quality
of support, portability and availability of additional features.
CORBA vs sockets
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