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Common Object Request Broker Architecture

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The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard that describes communication between software objects between otherwise incompatible systems. The standard is dictated by the Object Management Group.

History

  • 1.0 (Oct 1991): C mapping
  • 1.1 (Feb 1992): C++ mapping
  • 1.2 (Dec 1993)
  • 2.0 (Aug 1996)
  • 2.1 (Aug 1997)
  • 2.2 (Feb 1998): Java mapping
  • 3.3 (2012)

Implementations

C

  • Digital Equipment Corp.: ObjectBroker
  • IBM: Distributed System Object Model (DSOM)
  • ICL

C++

  • Expersoft: PowerBroker
  • Hewlett Packard: HP ORB Plus
  • IONA Technologies: Orbix - first complete CORBA implementation with a C++ binding
  • Sun

Smalltalk

  • Hewlett Packard

Publications

  • Christina Lau: Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM - VNR 1994, ISBN 0-442-01948-3
  • Ron Ben-Natan: CORBA: A Guide to Common Object Request Broker Architecture - McGraw-Hill 1995, ISBN 0-07-005427-4
  • Randy Otte; Paul Patrick; Mark Roy: Understanding CORBA - Prentice Hall PTR 1995, ISBN 0-13-459884-9
  • Thomas Mowbray; William Ruh: Introduction to CORBA - Addison-Wesley 1996, ISBN 0-201-89540-4
  • Thomas Ledoux: Implementing Proxy Objects in a Reflective ORB - Originally published as part of Proceedings of ECOOP 97; Workshop "Corba: Implementation, Use and Evaluation".

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