Common Object Request Broker Architecture

• A unified architecture for distributed application integration using object technologies (OMG)
  • Interoperability (hardware and software)
  • Component portability and reusability

• A client/server object-oriented middleware
• A component description language (IDL)
• ORB, an open support: multi-languages, several object adapters
• A dynamic environment:
  • Interface Repository to discover IDL definitions modelized by objects
  • Dynamic Invocation Interface to dynamically invoke object operations