Using CORBA with Oracle8i
CORBA stands for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture. It is specified and promoted by the Object Management Group (OMG)—a non-profit vendor-neutral organization. It promotes a distributed programming model that enables components developed in heterogeneous environments to communicate with each other. At the heart of the CORBA architecture is a software component called a broker. The broker mediates and redirects requests from a client to other software components that can potentially be written in other languages than the requestor and also could be running on different hardware platforms.
One of the biggest advantages (in addition to the heterogeneous communication enabled) of using CORBA is that the interaction ...
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