Appendix B. CORBA Services

The CORBA standard is really a collection of standards and definitions. In addition to the core specifications for the Object Request Broker (ORB) and inter-ORB communication protocols such as IIOP, CORBA also includes specifications for services that distributed objects may require, such as naming services, security measures, etc. Taken as a whole, these specifications, backed up by solid implementations, provide a very powerful environment for the distributed application developer.

This appendix provides a brief overview of some of the key services currently included in the CORBA Services specification. Some of these services are similar in nature to features provided inherently by Java. In these cases, we discuss the contrasts between the Java-native service and the CORBA service.

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