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CORBA presents a model of distributed computing in which distributed objects communicate using a high-level “information bus” called an Object Request Broker (ORB). In this paper we describe a problem with the current CORBA specification that makes ORB communication non-type-safe in certain situations. We describe a solution to the problem based on the use of unique identifiers, and show how it can be implemented efficiently in both stand-alone and federated CORBA-based systems.
The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the Co-operative Research Centre Program through the Department of Industry. Science & Tourism.
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Crawley, S.C., Duddy, K.R. (1998). Improving Type-Safety in CORBA. In: Davies, N., Jochen, S., Raymond, K. (eds) Middleware’98. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1283-9_18
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