Why doesn TAO support the BOA?
The short answer is that the BOA (Basic Object Adapter) is no longer part of the CORBA specification. The BOA was removed because of its lack of portability and underspecification among various other shortcomings. The main argument for adding BOA support to TAO is migration of existing CORBA applications. Because the BOA is implemented differently by each vendor, porting to a TAO BOA would probably be the same amount of work as porting to the POA (which provides true cross-vendor portability). All in all, applications are probably better off making the transition to the POA.
