ARE THERE IMPORTANT FORMS OF ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION THAT AREN T SUPPORTED DIRECTLY BY CORBA?
Yeah, but you can fake it pretty easily. While CORBA does support a deferred synchronous request/response, it does not directly support distributed requests with a callback driven response. A callback driven response allows an application to perform an operation on a distributed object, associate a callback with the response, continue with other processing. When the server responds, the associated callback is automatically executed within the original caller s application.
