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The CORBA specification for cooperation in heterogeneous information systems

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CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an interoperability standard for middleware in distributed object management systems which has resulted from the efforts of one of the largest computer industry consortia ever formed (the Object Management Group). CORBA defines client/server middleware in which objects are uniformly used for letting existing applications discover each other, interoperate, and interact with each other. Through a variety of predefined object services, CORBA additionally allows to create and delete objects, access them by name, make them transactional or secure, and store them persistently in a vastly arbitrary external storage system. In this paper, the core components of CORBA, which are collectively called the Object Management Architecture, are described in some detail. It is indicated how CORBA can be employed for developing distributed information systems.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Münster, Grevenerstraße 91, D-48159, Münster, Germany

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Vossen, G. (1997). The CORBA specification for cooperation in heterogeneous information systems. In: Kandzia, P., Klusch, M. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents. CIA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62591-7_26

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