Does anyone know of a concise example of a CORBA based system that is described
on the net? I'd like to get a look at a couple of designs to get different
ideas on how folks decided to arrange their model's classes to be served up via
CORBA. What sorts of CORBA success stories are out there?
I went to a presentation of ObjectSpace's Voyager ORB Tues. evening. They
talked about how their product was able to bridge/adapt to DCOM, CORBA and EJB.
They also pointed out, for instance, that to access a CORBA object might take
about 10 lines of code where they require one.
One thing that struck me about the presentation was how intellectually
interesting it is to talk about all these layers of technology, yet how it might
not pan out in the end due to practical matters. Running lots of
services/servers all linked together over a wide variety of connections (LAN,
Inernet, etc.) and getting them all to come together in a user's desktop app
reliably and quickly is a daunting task.
Perhaps we are at the stage of distributed systems where we were with LANs in
the 1980s. Lots of promise, but lots to do before everyone naturally assumes it
is there and working.
I hope this does not take us too far off the main theme here, but I personally
don't have work experience in using or running distributed object systems and so
I don't know the reality that is hidden behind the media's articles.
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