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CORBA

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Common object request broker architecture; Object request broker

Definition

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [1, 2] is standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) for distributed object computing.

Key Points

The CORBA standard specifies a platform-independent and programming language-independent architecture and a set of APIs to simplify distributed application development. The central idea in CORBA is to decouple the interface from the implementation. Applications that provide services declare their interfaces and operations in the Interface Description Language (IDL). IDL compilers read these definitions and synthesize client-side stubs and server-side skeletons, which provide data marshaling and proxy capabilities.

CORBA provides both a type-safe RPC-style object communication paradigm called the Static Invocation Interface (SII) and a more dynamic form of communication called the Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII), which allows creation and...

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  1. Object Management Group, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Version 3.1, OMG Document No. formal/2008-01-08, January 2008.

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  2. Soley RM, Stone CM. Object management architecture guide. 3rd ed. Object Management Group; 1995.

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  3. Object Management Group, Real-Time CORBA Specification, Version 1.2, OMG Document No. formal/2005-01-04, January 2005.

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  1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

    Aniruddha Gokhale

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Elec. and Comp.Eng., Univ. of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, M5S 3G4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    H. - Arno Jacobsen

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Gokhale, A. (2016). CORBA. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1201-2

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