Common Object Request Broker Architecture

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

Implementations

C

• Digital Equipment Corp.
• 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 Ledoux: Implementing Proxy Objects in a Reflective ORB - Originally published as part of Proceedings of ECOOP 97; Workshop "Corba: Implementation, Use and Evaluation".

Links

• Object Management Group (OMG) - Home of the CORBA standard