CORBA Introduction

• CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture
• OMG: Object Management Group
• OMA (OK, didn't see yet but think about it)
• ORB: Object Request Broker
• IDL: Interface Definition Language

• OA:Object Adapter
  • BOA (Basic: non-standard)
  • POA (Portable: standard (Tao first to adapt)
• DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
• DSI: Dynamic Skeleton Interface
• GIOP: General Inter-ORB Protocol
• IIOP: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
• ESIOP: environment-Specific Inter-ORB Protocols

• DDCF: Distributed Document Component Facility
• PDM: Product Data Management

See CORBA: A Guide to Common Object Request Broker Architecture page xvii if you want more acronyms