CORBA and Object Request Brokers

Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) has helped many networks with their ability to communicate to one another. CORBA's ultimate goal is for application integration (3). CORBA has been around for over ten years and has saved millions of dollars in software that would have been purchased and created to allow client-server requests to be made. CORBA is a middleware that creates a framework that allows communication of heterogeneous platforms to successfully communicate. There are many different parts that make up the CORBA architecture. A request from a client is passed through a stub and on the ORB core. The core processes the request and sends it to the appropriate server. There are many forms of the ORB, which directly relates to the implementation and to the type of services it is being used for. CORBA is being improved continuously and is allowing for communication between different systems that was once thought to be impossible.