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CORBA is a standard that allows applications written in different programming languages and running on different operating systems to communicate. It uses Interface Definition Language (IDL) to specify interfaces that objects present and defines how to map IDL to programming languages. CORBA enables seamless interoperability between distributed, heterogeneous applications.

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Corba

CORBA is a standard that allows applications written in different programming languages and running on different operating systems to communicate. It uses Interface Definition Language (IDL) to specify interfaces that objects present and defines how to map IDL to programming languages. CORBA enables seamless interoperability between distributed, heterogeneous applications.

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What is CORBA?

CORBA is the acronym for Common


Object Request Broker Architecture
It was developed by the Object Management
Group (OMG)
It is an open vendor-independent
architecture and infrastructure that computer
applications use to work together over
networks.
Using a standard protocol IIOP (Internet Inter-
Orb Protocol), a CORBA-based program from
any vendor, on almost any computer, operating
system, programming language, and network,
can interoperate with a CORBA-based program
from the same or another vendor.
CORBA enables software written in different languages
and running on different computers to work with each
other seamlessly. Implementation details from specific
operating systems, programming languages, and
hardware platforms are all removed from the
responsibility of developers who use CORBA.

What is CORBA good for?

CORBA is useful in many situations. Because of the
easy way that CORBA integrates machines from so
many vendors, with sizes ranging from mainframes and
desktops to hand-helds and embedded systems, it is the
middleware of choice for large (and even not-so-large)
enterprises. It is used in servers that must handle large
number of clients, at high hit rates, with high reliability.
It is scalable and fault tolerant.
CORBA works behind the scenes in the computer
rooms of many of the world's largest websites; ones that
you probably use every day.
IDL
CORBA uses an interface definition language (IDL) to
specify the interfaces which objects present to the
outer world. CORBA then specifies a mapping from IDL
to a specific implementation language like C++or Java.
Standard mappings exist
for Ada, C, C++, C++11, Lisp, Ruby, Smalltalk, Java, C
OBOL, PL/I and Python. There are also non-standard
mappings for Perl, Visual Basic, Erlang,
and Tcl implemented by object request brokers

The CORBA specification dictates there shall be an
ORB through which an application would interact with
other objects.(ORBs) written for those languages.
1. The application simply initializes the
ORB, and accesses an internal Object
Adapter, which maintains things like
reference counting, object (and
reference) instantiation policies, and
object lifetime policies.

2. The Object Adapter is used to
register instances of the generated code
classes.
Generated code classes are the result of
compiling the user IDL code, which
translates the high-level interface
definition into an OS- and language-
specific class base for use by the user
application. This step is necessary in
order to enforce CORBA semantics and
provide a clean user process for
interfacing with the CORBA
infrastructure.
Some IDL mappings are more difficult to
use than others. For example, due to the
nature of Java, the IDL-Java mapping is
rather straightforward and makes usage
of CORBA very simple in a Java
application.

The diagram below illustrates how the generated code is
used within the CORBA infrastructure

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