CORBA Features

• Don’t worry about unique terminology - these are just words!
– CORBA object
– request, target object, object reference
– client, server, servant
• Features
– Interface Definition Language (IDL)
– language mapping
• official: C, C++, Samlltalk, COBOL, Ada, Java
• also: Eiffel, Modula 3, Perl, Tcl, Objective-C, Python
– Operation invocation and dispatch facilities
• static (known at compile-time)
• dynamic (determined at run-time)
– Object adapters
• Design pattern: adapt CORBA object interface to servant
– Inter-ORB Protocol