The Common
Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification.
Hitachi Europe Ltd and OpenTrade Technologies Ltd have signed a partnership agreement to integrate Hitachi's object-oriented transaction processing manager known as TPBroker with OpenTrade's Real-time Middleware Solution to produce the first real-time implementation of an
Object Request Broker.
SilverStream Inc has gone to San Jose, California-based ObjectEra Inc for
object request broker technology to use within version 3.0 of the SilverStream Enterprise Application Server.
We have built a prototype intrusion detection system (IDS) to protect applications [6] that are based on the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), which is promulgated by the Object Management Group (OMG) [8].
ICL is to licence its
object request broker software, DAIS, to Peerlogic, which will have exclusive source code rights to all DAIS products.
Dunstan Thomas will provide a dedicated team of around 25 professionals to provide consulting, development and training on projects involving Inprise's Application Server, VisiBroker
Object Request Broker, AppCenter and development tools, including Borland's JBuilder, C++Builder and Delphi.
The ability to move code from the service to its client is the core difference between the Jini environment and other distributed systems, such as the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [4] and the Distributed Common Object Model (DCOM) [5].
While the company publicly announced the immediate availability of a Linux version of its Visibroker
object request broker (ORB) on August 10, and also demonstrated a Linux version of its JBuilder Java integrated development environment (IDE), there was no news of a Delphi for Linux at that time.
Guest editor Krishnan Seetharaman, a principal software engineer at General DataComm, piloted this section into a fine compilation of pieces that reflect the most recent version of CORBA, its design properties, new apps, along with a comprehensive look at the Object Management Architecture, and the
Object Request Broker. We thank these authors for helping to connect the many CORBA components for us.
According to Soken's "Distributed Object Computing in Japan: 1999 Market and Trends", the Object Management Group's Common
Object Request Broker Architecture is now the preferred choice for large scale, multi-platform integration projects at 61% of Japanese companies.
The Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [1] is a conceptual "software bus that allows applications to communicate with one another, regardless of who designed them, the platform they are running on, the language they are written in, and where they are executing.
When this interoperability goal was realized in 1996 with the issuance of the CORBA 2.0 (Common
Object Request Broker Architecture 2.0) specification [2, 6], two notable things happened: First, the infrastructure-oriented OMG members who had been concentrating on CORBA and the basic services were suddenly free to expand their horizons to include extended features; as a result, the basic CORBA object model is being extended to include multiple interfaces per object, objects passable by value, a beans-like component model, and support for realtime, fault-tolerant, and embedded CORBA [3].
