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What is CORBA? What does it do?

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What is CORBA? What does it do?

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CORBA is the acronym for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, OMG’s open, vendor-independent architecture and infrastructure that computer applications use to work together over networks. Using the standard protocol IIOP, a CORBA-based program from any vendor, on almost any computer, operating system, programming language, and network, can interoperate with a CORBA-based program from the same or another vendor, on almost any other computer, operating system, programming language, and network. Some people think that CORBA is the only specification that OMG produces, or that the term “CORBA” covers all of the OMG specifications. Neither is true; for an overview of all the OMG specifications and how they work together, click here. To continue with CORBA, read on.