Introduction: Why CORBA?

• In today's globally competitive software market it is becoming increasing important to develop, deploy, and maintain complex, distributed software systems.
• Many companies have developed proprietary software to enable the distribution of applications over a network, but this solution can be expensive and time-consuming.

• The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) enables software applications to invoke operations on distributed objects without concern for object location, programming language, operating system communication protocols, interconnections, or hardware platform.

• The CORBA specification is controlled by the Object Management Group (OMG), an open consortium of more than 700 companies that work together to define open standards for distributed computing. (http://www.omg.org)

• OMG is responsible for standardizing an open middleware specification to support distributed systems.