What Is CORBA?
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a framework for creating distributed object applications that are language and platform independent. You can create a CORBA object in Java running on Linux that talks to a C++ CORBA object running on Windows. If you look at the overall features of CORBA, you'll find that it competes with J2EE in many ways. At their very core, CORBA and J2EE are fairly similar. As you start looking at features beyond the core, however, you see that CORBA and J2EE go in different directions. You find areas that J2EE address where CORBA has no equivalent and areas that CORBA addresses where J2EE hasn't gone.
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The Object Management Group (OMG), which is the standards organization that publishes ...
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