CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch6 6i CB

Introduction

CORBA is an acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. 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.

Need for CORBA

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.

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Features

CORBA was designed by Object Management Group to provide an object oriented interoperability of applications in a distributed systems. The use of Object Oriented Design, analysis and design using CORBA allows for great re-usability across systems. Advantages of Object Oriented Features such as inheritance, encapsulation and dynamic binding are implemented in CORBA.