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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
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29.3. OMG and OMA

Our second case study is of an open standard for heterogeneous, object-oriented middleware. The Object Management Group (OMG) was formed to promote an object-oriented approach to distributed software design. More specifically, its aim was to develop, adopt and promote standards for the development and deployment of applications in distributed heterogeneous environments. In 1989 OMG issued a call for proposals for a new architecture OMA (Object Management Architecture) based on object invocation instead of client–server interaction: OMG CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) was defined. Since then the CORBA approach has gained industrial and commercial acceptance; the architecture has been refined and various implementations ...

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