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.

Implementations

• IBM: Distributed System Object Model (DSOM)
• IONA Technologies: Orbix - first complete CORBA implementation with a C++ binding
• Digital
• Hewlett Packard
• Sun

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