CORBA: A Platform for Distributed Object Computing (A State-of-the-Art Report on OMG/CORBA)

摘要

Distributed computing has made significant advances in the past few years as witnessed by the release of OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) and the adoption of a set of specifications for distributed object computing by the Object Management Group (OMG). In this report, we discuss OMG's work in distributed computing based on object technology. We attempt to provide a comprehensive coverage of OMG's technology, including an overview of Object Management Architecture, the rationale behind OMG's work, a technical tour of CORBA, and an overview of Object Services and Common Facilities. A technical comparison between DCE and CORBA is provided. User perspective and the future potential of OMG's technology are discussed in the conclusion.