Pure CORBA

Development and Deployment Roles

The CCM is more than just a framework for developing components. It also attempts to identify the stages along the way to reaching a working deployed application. A number of roles are defined that represent each of these stages. For each role, it is possible to define a set of tasks and responsibilities. Full-featured implementations of the CCM will provide specific tools for each role.

There are four principal roles in the CCM:

• Container provider

• Component implementor

• Component assembler

• Component deployer

These roles are discussed in the following sections.

Container Provider

A container provider is a vendor who provides the tools to deploy and run CORBA components in a container, which is the environment in ...