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Sure, that's the point. A naming context is just another object. As such it can be named in another context. The result is an arbitrary naming graph. The naming graph can span multiple servers all...more

Another important part of the CORBA standard is the definition of a set of distributed services to support the integration and interoperation of distributed objects. As depicted in the graphic bel...more

A name is a sequence of name components. The sequence represents the path from the naming context to a named object. That is, since a naming context can be named in another naming context, the nam...more

A naming context is an object implemented by the CORBA Naming Service. It consists of a set of unique bindings that map names to object references. The names are unique within the context. To crea...more

CORBA defines a platform-independent, language-independent architecture for writing distributed, object-oriented applications. CORBA objects can reside in the same process, on the same machine, do...more

CORBA is an acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. It refers to a standard specification for an architecture for a distributed object system. It allows a distributed, heterogeneous...more

Cos Naming is another name for the CORBA Naming Service. It stands for Common Object Services Naming. The name service maps names to CORBA object references. The name service implements a simple C...more

The kind field allows type information to be encoded in the name component. This is similar to file system names in many operating systems where the extension indicates the type of file. (For exam...more

The Object Management Group (OMG) is the group responsible for defining CORBA. The OMG comprises over 700 companies and organizations, including almost all the major vendors and developers of dist...more

The Object Request Broker (ORB) is the distributed service that implements requests to remote objects. It locates the remote object on the network, communicates the request to the object, waits fo...more

Distributed objects are identified by object references. A client holding an object reference can request the services of the object. Object references are typed by IDL interfaces.

The most popular commercial CORBA products are VisiBroker and OrbixWeb from Inprise Corporation and Iona Technologies, respectively. The Java 2 platform supports Java IDL. Java IDL is a scaled dow...more

Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) provides functionality similar to CORBA with the limitation that both clients and servers must be Java programs. If you to integrate software written in langu...more

When CORBA products support IIOP, they can interoperate, meaning objects from one vendor's CORBA product can issue requests on objects from another vendor's product. Since no one vendor supports a...more

CORBA provides a high level distributed object model for applications. By using CORBA, the application developer need not be concerned with low level networking protocols, data formats, etc. A COR...more