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therefore provides platform and ___location transparency for well-defined objects, which are the fundamental underpinnings of any [[Distributed computing]] platform.

CORBA wasis initiallycreated inventedand by ''Component Integration Laboratories'' but in 1996 it was adoptedcontrolled by the [[Object Management Group]] (OMG). CORBA was actually specified as a sequel to the now defunct [[OpenDoc]] specification for compound documents.

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.