ORB : Java Glossary

ORB
An ORB (Object Request Broker) that more or less conforms to CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). That rules out Microsoft’s OLE (Object Linking & Embedding), and to a lesser extent Java’s RMI (Remote Method Invocation) and IBM (International Business Machines) ’s SOM (Start Of Message). An ORB is not proprietary. CORBA is freely available with no fee, and is entirely vendor-neutral.

There are now at least a couple of dozen proprietary and 40 or so free or open source ORBs available, not far off 100 in total, and more all the time (though lots of old ones like ORB-Plus, NEO, Joe, HardPack, ObjectBroker, etc. have also disappeared). IBM ’s SOM was retired a few years back. IBM ’s new ORB is ComponentBroker.


CMP homejump to top You can get the freshest copy of this page from: or possibly from your local J: drive (Java virtual drive/mindprod.com website mirror)
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/orb.html J:\mindprod\jgloss\orb.html
logo
Please email your , letters to the editor, errors, omissions, typos, formatting errors, ambiguities, unclear wording, broken/redirected link reports, suggestions to improve this page or comments to Roedy Green : feedback email. If you want your message, your name or email kept confidential, not considered for public posting, please explicitly specify that. Unless you state otherwise, I will treat your message as a letter to the editor that I may or may not publish in the feedback section. After that, it will be too late to retract it. If you disagree with something I said, please quote it and cite the web page where you found it, tell me why you think it is wrong, and, if possible, provide some supporting evidence. Threatening to kill me or spouting obscenities has yet to persuade me to change my mind.
mindprod.com IP:[65.110.21.43]
view BlogYour face IP:[38.107.179.213]
You are visitor number 12,575.