corba

It’s not just CORBA, it’s RPC in general. This includes stuff like DCOM, Java-RMI, .NET Remoting and all the others as well. The problem is basically that distributed computing is fundamentally different than local computing. RPC tries to pretend these differences don’t exist, and makes remote calls look just like local calls. But, in order … Read more

There are still situations where CORBA could be a good answer: when you are building a distributed system involving multiple programming languages and multiple platforms, when your system entails sending complex data structures … and SOAP doesn’t cut it, when you have high rates of messaging … and HTTP doesn’t cut it, or when you … Read more