Gerald Brose

While it is easier to write CORBA applications in Java than in any other language, there are still a few conceptual stumbling stones that Java/CORBA programmers need to be aware of. The combination of Java and CORBA, the OMG's middleware standard, has been receiving a lot of interest in both the Java and CORBA communities because of their apparent similarities in syntax and concepts. An OMG-defined language mapping and a number of existing commercial and public domain CORBA platforms open up the CORBA world for Java applications and components. In this article, I look at how far the integration of Java and CORBA can really go and point out a few pitfalls that arise because of subtle and not-so-subtle mismatches between the two worlds. Introduction In the Java/CORBA context, the term "integration" occurs frequently as a synonym for the combination of Java and CORBA t... (more)