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Corba Case Study

CORBA allows clients written in one programming language to invoke operations on remote objects written in another language. It uses an Interface Definition Language to define remote object interfaces that are then used to generate client proxies and server skeletons for communication. The main components of the CORBA architecture are the Object Request Broker which enables this cross-language communication, as well as standard protocols like GIOP and IIOP which allow clients and servers to communicate over different transports.

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Corba Case Study

CORBA allows clients written in one programming language to invoke operations on remote objects written in another language. It uses an Interface Definition Language to define remote object interfaces that are then used to generate client proxies and server skeletons for communication. The main components of the CORBA architecture are the Object Request Broker which enables this cross-language communication, as well as standard protocols like GIOP and IIOP which allow clients and servers to communicate over different transports.

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CORBA

·0 INTRODUCTION
·1 CORBA RMI
·2 ARCHITECTURE
·3 CORBA SERVICES
·4 SUMMARY
1. Introduction
The OMG (Object Management Group) was formed in 1989 with a view
to encourage

the adoption of distributed object systems in order to gain the benefits


of object-oriented

programming for software development and to make use of distributed


systems, which

were becoming widespread. To achieve its aims, the OMG advocated


the use of open

systems based on standard object-oriented interfaces. These systems


would be built

from heterogeneous hardware, computer networks, operating systems


and programming

languages.

In 1991, a specification for an object request broker architecture known


as

CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) was agreed by a


group of

companies. It is

intended that GIOP can be implemented over any transport layer with
connections. The

implementation of GIOP for the Internet uses the TCP protocol and is
called the Internet

Inter-ORB Protocol or IIOP [OMG 2004a]. CORBA 3 first appeared in


late 1999 and a

component model has been added recently.

2 CORBA RMI
Programming in a multi-language RMI system such as CORBA RMI
demands more of

the programmer than programming in a single-language RMI system


like Java RMI.

The following new concepts need to be learned:

• the object model offered by CORBA;

• the interface definition language and its mapping onto the


implementation

language.

In

particular, the programmer defines remote interfaces for the remote


objects and then

uses an interface compiler to produce the corresponding proxies and


skeletons. But in
CORBA, proxies are generated in the client language and skeletons in
the server

language.

CORBA's OBJECT MODEL


s. The term CORBA object

is used to refer to remote objects. Thus, a CORBA object implements an


IDL interface,

has a remote object reference and is able to respond to invocations of


methods in its IDL

interface. A CORBA object can be implemented by a language that is


not objectoriented, for example without the concept of class. Since
implementation languages will

have different notions of class or even none at all, the class concept does
not exist in

CORBA. Therefore classes cannot be defined in CORBA IDL, which


means that

instances of classes cannot be passed as arguments. However, data


structures of various

types and arbitrary complexity can be passed as arguments.

CORBA IDL
A CORBA IDL interface specifies a name and a set of methods that
clients

can request.e in particular that GraphicalObject is defined as a struct,


whereas it was a class in

the Java RMI example. A component whose type is a struct has a set of
fields containing

values of various types like the instance variables of an object, but it has
no methods.

3 ARCHITECTURE
The architecture is designed to support the role of an object request
broker that enables

clients to invoke methods in remote objects, where both clients and


servers can be

implemented in a variety of programming languages. The main


components of the

CORBA architecture are illustrated in Figure

CORBA provides for both static and dynamic invocations. Static


invocations are
used when the remote interface of the CORBA object is known at
compile time,
enabling client stubs and server skeletons to be used. If the remote
interface is not known
at compile time, dynamic invocation must be used. Most programmers
prefer to use
static invocation because it provides a more natural programming
model.

4 CORBA services
CORBA includes specifications for services that may be required by
distributed objects.
In particular, the Naming Service is an essential addition to any ORB,
The CORBA services include the following:
2. Naming Service

3. Event Service and Notification Service

4. Security service

5. Trading service

6. Transaction service and concurrency control service

5 Summary
The main component of CORBA is the Object Request Broker or ORB,
which allows
clients written in one language to invoke operations in remote objects
(called CORBA

objects) written in another language.

as follows:

• The CORBA General Inter-ORB protocol (GIOP) includes an external


data

representation called CDR, which makes it possible for clients and


servers to

communicate irrespective of their hardware. It also specifies a standard


form for

remote object references.

• GIOP also includes a specification for the operations of a request-reply


protocol

that can be used irrespective of the underlying operating system.

• The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) implements the request-reply


protocol

over TCP. IIOP remote object references include the domain name and
port

number of a server.

The client

program accesses CORBA objects via proxies or stubs, which are


generated

automatically from their IDL interfaces in the language of the client.


The object adapter is an important component of CORBA

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