What are my options for developing CORBA applications using Java?
CORBA technology as part of the Java 2 platform consists of an Object Request Broker (ORB) written in Java (with a small bit of native code), the RMI programming model, and the IDL programming model. The “magic” that gives us the cross-language, cross-vendor interoperability is the Internet InterORB Protocol, or IIOP. IIOP can be a transport protocol for distributed applications written in either IDL or Java RMI. IIOP allows distributed objects to conform to OMG’s CORBA specification. When using the IDL programming model, the interface is everything! It defines the points of entry that can be called from a remote process, such as the types of arguments the called procedure will accept, or the value/output parameter of information returned. Using IDL, the programmer can make the entry points and datatypes that pass between communicating processes act like a standard language. CORBA is a language-neutral system in which the argument values or return values are limited to what can be repr
