from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORBA
<standard, programming> (CORBA) An {Object Management Group}
specification which provides a standard messaging interface
between distributed {objects}.
The original CORBA specification (1.1) has been revised
through version 2 (CORBA 2) with the latest specification
being version 3 (CORBA 3). In its most basic form CORBA
consists of the {Interface Definition Language} (IDL) and the
Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII).
The IDL definition is complied into a Stub (client) and
Skeleton (server) component that communicate through an
{Object Request Broker} (ORB). When an ORB determines that a
request is to a remote object, it may execute the request by
communicating with the remote ORB.
The Corba IDL can be mapped to a number of languages including
{C}, {C++}, {Java}, {COBOL}, {Smalltalk}, {Ada}, {Lisp},
{Python}, and {IDLscript}. CORBA ORBs are widely available
for a number of platforms. The OMG standard for inter-ORB
communication is {IIOP}, this ensures that all CORBA 2
compliant ORBS are able to interoperate.
Latest version: Corba 3.0.3 2004-03-12, as of 2007-09-04.
See also {COSS}, {Component Object Model}, {RMI}.
OMG CORBA specs
(http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/corba_spec_catalog.htm).
(2007-09-04)