29.4. CORBA
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an application framework that provides interoperability between objects, built-in (possibly) different languages, running on (possibly) different machines in heterogeneous distributed environments.
CORBA 1.1 was introduced in 1991 and defined the Interface Definition Language (IDL) and the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable client–server object interaction within a specific implementation of an Object Request Broker (ORB); see Figure 29.3. CORBA 2.0, adopted in December 1994, tackled interoperability by specifying how ORBs from different vendors can interoperate.
Figure 29.3. CORBA architecture.
An ORB is the middleware that establishes the client–server relationships ...
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