Towards a CORBA standard

The OMG (Object Group Management), an organization with almost six hundred members, establishes the CORBA specifications (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). The great names of data processing, (Oracle, Sun, IBM, DIGITAL, HP) have united under its banner, and so CORBA has become a standard for distributed objects. Note that the aim of this standard is to make heterogeneous objects, i.e. objects written in different languages, talk to each other.

When you develop distributed objects using the CORBA3 standard and the component model CCM, you use common interfaces for common interfaces for CORBA and RMI (EJB). Whatever language you use (Java, C++, Object COBOL...), the development and connection of the components become standardized.

Java and CORBA

Java was initially conceived to facilitate the development of applications communicating across a network. A set of solutions have been developed in Java that respond to this need. One of these solutions is CORBA compatible and, with it, you can build distributed applications with objects that can talk to each other even when written in different languages.

For applications that must fit into a network, and for which "all Java" solutions are not sufficient, from point of view of accessibility, we can set up Corba services. This permits re-use of other Corba services, already written in other languages, and transparency, from the usage point of view.

SOFTEAM and CORBA

SOFTEAM, because of its desire to rely on durable market standards, has invested in the CORBA standard and proposes Java-CORBA solutions for distributed application heterogeneous environments. Amongst its range of services, SOFTEAM offers assistance, training, and application development using Java and CORBA.

To help you putting CORBA in place, SOFTEAM makes its expertise and its capitalization on experience available to you through its offers of Consulting, Training, Development and Products.