Justification and History (=blah, blah)

• Distributed Applications are heterogeneous

  • layers, applications, libraries glued together
  • can all components really work together?

• Two key rules

  • build platform-independent models and abstraction
  • hide as much low-level complexity without sacrificing too much performance

• CORBA provides a well thought balanced set of abstractions and concrete services

  • Object Services
  • Domain Interfaces
  • Application Interfaces

• Object Management Group (OMG) since 1989 - now over 800 members

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