What is CORBA (Executive summary)

• ORB: Object Request Broker = manages remote access to objects
• CORBA: Common ORB Architecture = software bus for distributed objects
• CORBA provides a framework for distributed OO programming

– remote objects are (nearly) transparently accessible from the local program
– uses the client-server paradigm
– platform and language independent


• “an OO version of RPC”

– but a framework rather than a technology => lot of theory