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    The document discusses the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), which is a standard for building distributed object-oriented systems. It specifies an object model for defining interfaces independently of their implementations and an Interface Definition Language. CORBA uses an Object Request Broker to handle requests between clients and servers, providing object location, communication, and common services. The ORB allows objects to communicate across networks as if they were in the same memory space.

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    Common Object Request Broker

    Architecture (CORBA)
    CS-328

    What is CORBA
    Specification for a standard O-O
    architecture for applications
    1990 - Object Management Group
    publishes Object Management
    Architecture Guide
    1991 - Common Object Request Broker
    Architectural Specification

    CORBAs Goal
    Integrate existing mainframe applications with
    desktop based tools
    Access distributed information and resources from within desktop
    tools
    Make existing business data available as network resources
    Augment desktop applications with custom functions and
    capabilities for a particular business
    Change and evolve network based systems to reflect new
    topologies or resources

    Distributed Computing
    Two or more pieces of software sharing information
    could be on same machine
    could be on different machines on same network
    could be on different machines on different networks

    based on client/server concepts


    Benefits:
    sharing of scarce resources
    load balancing
    run applications on most appriate hardware

    Existing Mechanisms - RMI, RPC, Corba, network APIs

    Distributed Object Computing


    Marriage of Distributed Computing with an Object
    Model
    Uses a broker to handle messages requests
    between clients and servers
    broker can choose server that best fits needs of client
    allows separation of interface and implementation
    allows building block approach to development and
    evolution

    Object Model
    Provides:
    Abstraction
    group objects and focus on their similarities

    Encapsulation
    hide implementation details from the services provided

    Inheritance
    ability to pass along (object-to-object) capabilities and behaviors

    Polymorphism
    ability to substitute objects with matching interfaces at run time

    Object Management Architecture


    Application

    Common

    Objects

    Facilities

    Object Request
    Broker

    Object
    Services

    What does the ORB do?


    The ORB provides a communications hub for
    all objects
    analogous to a hardware bus

    Provides object services


    creation, access control and object tracking

    Common Facilities
    db access, printing, synchronization, document
    management

    CORBA Object Communications


    CORBA Objects communicate via their interfaces
    Interfaces are defined using Interface Definition Language
    Language independent
    Designed to be language agnostic
    Directly maps most common data types
    There are some datatype mapping problems,
    especially when using different languages for the
    client and server.

    CORBA Object Communications

    IIOP
    Object A

    Interface

    Object B

    Interface

    Conceptually ...
    Client

    Client

    Client

    Server

    ORB

    Server

    Server

    What happens...
    Server objects register their methods with the
    orb naming service
    Client binds to the orb naming server for a
    server object method
    Naming service return location of server
    object and disconnects
    Client connects to server at returned location

    Really though...
    ORB
    Client

    Services

    Registration
    1
    Server

    2
    Client

    Server
    3

    Client

    Server

    3-Tier Client Server


    Sockets
    JavaIDL
    Client

    Client

    Client

    JDBC

    JavaRMI

    Native
    Server

    DB

    3-Tier Advantages
    Server can manage database connections
    efficiently
    Client can focus on presentation
    Server can preformat data for client and focus
    on business logic
    Running server on high performance
    hardware can improve perceived performance

    Interface Definition Language


    In Java we cannot separate a classs
    definition from its implementations as we
    can in C++
    Header files
    Implementation files

    CORBA allows the separation of definition


    and implementation

    IDL (more)
    CORBA uses IDL for defining interfaces
    between clients and servers
    ORB Vendors provide specific IDL
    compilers for supported languages
    create target language stubs and skeletonsfor
    building CORBA clients and servers
    C, C++, Smalltalk, Java, COBOL

    IDL/Java type mapping


    due to differences in heritage IDL and Java types dont
    have a 1 to 1 mapping:
    long

    Java int

    short

    Java short

    float

    Java float

    double

    Java double

    char

    Java char

    boolean

    Java boolean

    octet

    java byte

    string

    java.lang.String

    any

    Special type consisting of any of the above

    an IDL interface
    ex.
    interface Cooler {
    int getHotWaterLevel();
    int getWarnWaterLevel();
    int getColdWaterLevel();
    exception NoMoreWaterException { };
    int getHotWater() throws NoMoreWaterException;
    int getWarmWater() throws NoMoreWaterException;
    int getColdWater() throws NoMoreWaterException;
    }

    Compiling the IDL


    Compiling the IDL using the javatoidl compiler will
    produce six classes:

    CoolerRef
    CoolerHolder
    CoolerOperations
    CoolerStub
    CoolerServant
    CoolerSkeleton

    The ORB
    What is it that the ORB does ?
    Object location
    Location transparency

    Object communications
    Marshalls and unmarshalls parameter and results data

    Services

    Object Life Cycle Management


    Naming
    Event decoupling
    Relationship management
    Externalization
    Transaction management
    Concurrency control
    Property management
    Trader locating objects based on properties
    Object query

    OEM Orb Info

    The Borland VisiBroker Orb is built into Netscape Communicator 4.x


    but can be purchased seperately
    CORBA 3.0 Compliant
    Language support C++, Java, .NET (C++ and C#)

    Orbix & Orbacus (Progress Software (previously Iona Technologies)

    CORBA 2.6 Compliant

    Language support - C, C++, Java, COBOL, Smalltalk, Ada, PL/1, Lisp, Python and
    IDLscript. In additionally mappings for Perl, Objective-C, Oberon, Eiffel,
    Modula3, Scheme, and Tcl.

    J2SE - org.omg.CORBA ( in the JDK) since JDK 1.3)


    Provides the mapping of the OMG CORBA APIs to the JavaTM
    programming language, including the class ORB
    class ORB is implemented such that a programmer can use it as a fullyfunctional Object Request Broker (ORB).

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