12.1. Overview
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) was covered in Chapter 11, and as with many things in life, there is more than one way to achieve the same goal. CORBA is a standard for making object method invocation requests over a network. The Object Management Group (OMG), a large consortium of companies devoted to improving remote object method invocation, developed the CORBA specification.
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 | Information on the work of the Object Management Group can be found at http://www.omg.org/. |
CORBA has been designed from the ground up to support a wide range of network, operating system, and language configurations. This makes it, for some purposes, ...
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