The Rise and Fall of CORBA.

The article discusses the growth and decline in popularity of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). A version of CORBA released in 1997 gained wide acceptance among developers building distributed applications. However, a variety of developments served to chip away at CORBA's popularity...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 52 - 58
Main Author:	Henning, Michi
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Aug2008
Subjects:	CORBA (Computer architecture) Computer architecture Middleware Object-oriented methods (Computer science) Java programming language Internet
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the growth and decline in popularity of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). A version of CORBA released in 1997 gained wide acceptance among developers building distributed applications. However, a variety of developments served to chip away at CORBA's popularity including the emergence of the Web and the Java programming language. An updated CORBA specification released in 1999 was largely without impact. The author details CORBA's decline and suggests lessons to be learned from it.