What is the difference between Jini and CORBA?
CORBA is perhaps more akin to RMI than Jini, but CORBA includes a service called the trader service that is somewhat reminiscent of the Jini lookup service. CORBA, which stands for Common Object Request Broker Architecture, enables you to invoke methods on remote objects written in any programming language. RMI, which stands for Remote Method Invocation, enables you to invoke methods on Java objects in remote virtual machines. The objects needn’t have been written in the Java programming language, but they do need to be running in a Java virtual machine. Thus, they most likely were written in some language that was compiled to Java class files, and by far the most common language compiled to Java class files is Java. CORBA has a naming service that lets you look up a remote object by name and obtain a remote reference to it. RMI has a registry server that let you do the same thing: look up a remote object by name and obtain a remote reference to it. CORBA departs from RMI, however, in
