CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch6 6i CB

Introduction

The recent advances in the technology have resulted in evolution of many different computing architectures. In today's scenario interaction of computer applications in a distributed system is of prime importance. Allowing one computer to access application present on another computer is an example of need of a distributed system that manages these resources. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture is an effective resource in allowing interoperability of heterogeneous systems in a distributed systems. CORBA is emerging as a standard of distributed computing and has lot of advantages that make use of distributed computing. It is a vendor independent architecture and infrastructure that computer applications use to work together over networks. A Corba based program from any vendor, on almost any computer, operating system, programming language can interact with a corba based program from any vendor on any computer, operating system, programming language. It uses IIOP protocol to form the communication between two Corba based programs.