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The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) that enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together.

CORBA is a mechanism in software for normalizing the method-call semantics between application objects that reside either in the same address space (application) or remote address space (same host, or remote host on a network).

CORBA uses an interface definition language (IDL) to specify the interfaces that objects will present to the outside world. CORBA then specifies a “mapping” from IDL to a specific implementation language like C++ or Java. Standard mappings exist for Ada, C, C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, Java, COBOL, PL/I and Python. There are also non-standard mappings for Perl, Visual Basic, Ruby, Erlang, and Tcl implemented by object request brokers (ORBs) written for those languages.

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORBA)

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    • The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) that enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together.

      CORBA is a mechanism in software for normalizing the method-call semantics between application objects that reside either in the same address space (application) or remote address space (same host, or remote host on a network).

      CORBA uses an interface definition language (IDL) to specify the interfaces that objects will present to the outside world. CORBA then specifies a “mapping” from IDL to a specific implementation language like C++ or Java. Standard mappings exist for Ada, C, C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, Java, COBOL, PL/I and Python. There are also non-standard mappings for Perl, Visual Basic, Ruby, Erlang, and Tcl implemented by object request brokers (ORBs) written for those languages.

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORBA)

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      Telelogic Modeling Community: Whitepapers

      Telelogic's whitepaper library is dedicated to offering information on emerging technologies, assisting in solving a common issue, or features of a particular product and how is relates to industry trends. * Implementing SOA * Enterprise SOA Management * Net-Centric Operations: Improving Project Development Efforts by Modeling Defense Information Systems * Achieve Automatic Test Generation Through Software Reuse
      http://modeling.telelogic.com

      ROFES: Real-Time CORBA for embedded systems

      Middlewares like CORBA and DCOM help to improve the flexibility, extensibility, maintainability and reuseability of distributed applications. But these middleware architectures can not be used to build an avionics mission control application because they do not support real-time features. Therefore the Object Management Group develops a specification for CORBA with a real-time extension and called this specification Real-Time CORBA.
      http://www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de/users/stefan/rofes/

      CORBA Tutorials

      The following are electronic versions of tutorials on CORBA that I've given. Additional course material for teaching CORBA is also available online.
      http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/tutorials-corba.html

      comp.object.corba

      Newsgroup devoted to CORBA.
      news:comp.object.corba

      Corba Primer

      The Common Object Request Broker Architecture, or CORBA for short, is a specification produced by the Object Management Group (OMG) that addresses interoperability in distributed heterogeneous environments. The CORBA standard represents industry consensus from more than 800 companies. It defines an Object Request Broker (ORB) for transparent invocation on remote objects, as well as supporting system level Object Services and higher level...
      http://www.omg.org/news/whitepapers/seguecorba.pdf

      CORBA for FPGAs: Tying together GPPS, DSPs, and FPGAs

      As signal processing systems become larger and more complex, system builders are running into a performance wall. In order to achieve the desired performance requirements of these extensive systems, modern signal processing systems often combine Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), General Purpose Processors (GPPs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). To facilitate development of such multi-processor systems, designers can now use a distr...
      http://www.vmecritical.com

      Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems Platform Task Force (RTESS PTF)

      The RTESS PTF focuses on adaptations and extensions of OMG technologies that apply across domains for real-time, embedded, and other specialized kinds of systems. Examples include systems that have one or more of the following characteristics: real-time, embedded, fault tolerant, highly available, high performance, and safety critical. RTESS extends specifications for Platform Independent Models (PIMs), the Unified Modeling Language...
      http://realtime.omg.org/

      Real-Time and Embedded CORBA

      Welcome to the Real-Time and Embedded CORBA Forum. This community is dedicated to discussing the creation of distributed CORBA applications in the Real-Time, Embedded and High Performance domains. Experienced and new developers are welcome. Users of any Real-Time or Embedded CORBA ORBs may participate.
      http://www.realtime-corba.com/ultimatebb.cgi

      Telelogic Modeling Community

      The Telelogic Modeling Community offers solutions for Business Process Analysis, Enterprise Architecture and Model-Driven Development of Applications spanning Enterprise through Embedded Systems. Telelogic model-driven solutions enable you to optimize your business processes, systems and applications, improving productivity, innovation and agility.
      http://modeling.telelogic.com

      Object Management Group

      OMG's mission is to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. OMG is perhaps THE primary resource on CORBA. Some parts of the site are only available to OMG members.
      http://www.omg.org/

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