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The '''Common Object Request Broker Architecture''' ('''CORBA''') is a [[Standardization|standard]] defined by the [[Object Management Group]] (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between systems on different operating systems, [[programming language]]s, and computing hardware. CORBA uses an object-oriented model although the systems that use the CORBA do not have to be object-oriented. CORBA is an example of the [[distributed object]] paradigm.

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;Problems with implementations

:Through its history, CORBA has been plagued by shortcomings in poor ORB implementations. Unfortunately many of the papers criticizing CORBA as a standard are simply criticisms of a particularly bad CORBA ORB implementation.

:CORBA is a comprehensive standard with many features. Few implementations attempt to implement all of the specifications,<ref name="ACM_fall">{{cite journal |first=Michi |last=Henning |url=http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1142044 |title=The Rise and Fall of CORBA |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |journal=[[ACM Queue]] |volume=4 |issue=5 |date=30 June 2006 |accessdate=15 March 2010}}</ref> and initial implementations were incomplete or inadequate. As there were no requirements to provide a reference implementation, members were free to propose features which were never tested for usefulness or implementability. Implementations were further hindered by the general tendency of the standard to be verbose, and the common practice of compromising by adopting the sum of all submitted proposals, which often created APIs that were incoherent and difficult to use, even if the individual proposals were perfectly reasonable.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}

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