CORBA and Web Services
It is fairly straightforward to extend a CORBA application through the Web Services architecture. The SOAP specification doesn't allow object references to be passed between applications, so a little work needs to be done on the middle-tier level to isolate SOAP clients from the details of CORBA applications.
This next example will publish the EJB that was created in the last section so that it can be used by SOAP clients. Figure 19.5 shows the architecture of the application.
Figure 19.5. The CORBA/Web Services example architecture.
The EJB is deployed under the Borland AppServer. It has a published CORBA interface that ...
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