What is CORBA and how can it be utilized?

Question

I've read that CORBA is something of an API to allow objects of different applications running on different OS's, written in different languages, to communicate with each other seamlessly. Unfortunately, this is a tough definition for me to swallow. Could someone possibly clarify and maybe even include some examples? I'm pretty fluent with C++, Java, and php so if any examples are needed please use one of them...Thanks yahoo answers!

Answer 1

All I know is that...

The Common Object Requesting Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) that enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together.

CORBA is a mechanism in software for normalizing the method-call semantics between application objects that reside either in the same address space (application) or remote address space (same host, or remote host on a network).

You can go to these sites to learn more :

» http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/... (Official OMG CORBA Components page)

» http://ditec.um.es/~dsevilla/ccm (Unofficial CORBA Component Model page)

» http://www.ejccm.org/ (EJCCM: Computational Physics Inc's free Java CCM implementation)

» http://www.ciaranmchale.com/corba-explai...  (CORBA Explained Simply)