Abstract
Abstract: The Real-Time CORBA and minimumCORBA specifications in the forthcoming CORBA 3.0 standard are important steps towards defining standard-based middleware which can satisfy real-time requirements in an embedded system. This article describes these new specifications and an implementation called ROFES. ROFES supports different network architectures, for ex-ample the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI). Furthermore this article examines the SCI-network and whether it possesses real-time characteristics.