What is CORBA (Executive summary)
ORB: Object Request Broker = manages remote access to objects
CORBA: Common ORB Architecture = software bus for distributed objects
CORBA provides a framework for distributed OO programming
- remote objects are (nearly) transparently accessible from the local program
- uses the client-server paradigm
- platform and language independent
“an OO version of RPC”
- but a framework rather than a technology => lot of theory