Introduction to CORBA

Goals

• the benefits of distributed objects;

• CORBA’s role in developing distributed applications;

• to be able to determine when and where to apply CORBA;

• the future development trends in CORBA.

Audience

Software Developers and Managers who are getting started with CORBA development

Duration

1 day

Prerequisites

Familiarity with C++ and object-oriented concepts is desired.

Contents

Distributed Objects
The Object Management Group (OMG) Object Model
Architecture of CORBA
Interface Definition Language (IDL)
The Object Request Broker (ORB)
CORBA Services
CORBA Frameworks
Commercial tools for developing CORBA applications
Comparison of CORBA to other distributed object standards

Format

Lecture

Material

Each student will get a print out of all the sheets.