Chapter 22. Using CORBA in a Web Application

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CORBA is, of course, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture and is a language-neutral system for inter-object communication. When CORBA first appeared on the scene, it was hailed as a great unifying technology that would bridge the gap between different programming languages and different operating systems. CORBA may have failed to live up to its potential to some extent, but it is still a useful technology. While many Java applications lean toward RMI, which is more tightly integrated with Java, and Enterprise Java Beans, which uses RMI as the underlying transport, other ...

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