Most application servers are built upon a technology base of Java, CORBA, or a combination of the two. This chapter provides a detailed description of the major components and technologies of CORBA. This information serves as a foundation for the following chapters.
In April of 1989, eleven companies representing IT users and vendors initiated the formation of the Object Management Group (OMG). The purpose of the consortium was and is to develop and promote commercially viable and vendor-independent technologies for Distributed Object Computing (DOC). The consortium, organized as a not-for-profit corporation, now has over 800 members. The group is responsible for the definition of Common Object Request ...
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