Common Object Request Broker Architecture: Difference between revisions

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'''CORBA''' or <i>'''C'''ommon '''O'''bject '''R'''equest '''B'''roker '''A'''rchitecture</i> defines the [[API]]s, communication protocol, and object/service information models to enable ethereogenousheterogeneous applications written in various languages running on various platforms to interoperate.

In a general sense CORBA "wraps" code written in another language into a bundle containing additional information on the capabilities of the code inside, and how to call it. The resulting wrapped objects can then be called from other programs (or CORBA objects) over the network. In this sense CORBA can be considered as a machine-readable documentation format, similar to a [[header file]] but with considerably more information.