corba

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)