Chapter 13. GIOP, IIOP, and IORs
13.1 Chapter Overview
Even though CORBA goes to great lengths to shield applications from the details of networking, it is useful to have at least a basic understanding of what happens under the hood of an ORB. In this chapter, we present an overview of the General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) and the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), and we explain how protocol-specific information is encoded in object references. Our treatment is by no means exhaustive. We show just enough of the protocols to give you a basic understanding of how CORBA achieves interoperability without losing extensibility. Unless you are building your own ORB, the precise protocol details are irrelevant. You can consult the CORBA specification ...
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