CORBA
This updates the article:

CORBA for Not Yet Techies

Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is
"an architecture and specification for creating, distributing,
and managing distributed program objects in a network."

That's a fancy way of saying that it allows different makes of
computers using different standards and technologies to communicate
with each other over a network, such as the Internet.
It is known as "middleware" - a vendor neutral solution for
making computers compatible with each other.

It is still being developed and promoted by a consortium of over
500 different companies through the Object Management Group (OMG).
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and
X/Open have sanctioned CORBA as the standard architecture for
distributed objects.

As noted in the above article, Microsoft uses its own distributed
object architecture, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).
OMG and Microsoft have agreed on a gateway approach for DCOM and
CORBA to communicate with each other, which prevents the one or
the other standard being isolated and an inconvenient obstacle to
users. It has recently been adapted to Bluetooth and other
wireless technologies.

CORBA is used in Java 2's implementation of distribute computing
capabilities. CORBA is used in finance, telecommunications,
manufacturing, life sciences research and many military systems.

CORBA 3, issued in September 2002, is the latest level. This
introduced the CORBA Component Model (CCM).
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