ORB User Guide

Table of Contents

Index

Chapter 1: Introduction

• 1.1 Overview
  • 1.1.1 CORBA as a Solution
  • 1.1.2 The CORBA Standard
  • 1.1.3 CORBA - Definition
  • 1.1.4 CORBA Products
  • 1.1.5 The Object Management Architecture (OMA)
    • 1.1.5.1 The Object Request Broker (ORB)
    • 1.1.5.2 Object Services
    • 1.1.5.3 Domain Interfaces
• 1.2 The Object Management Group (OMG)
  • 1.2.1 OMG History
  • 1.2.2 OMG Goals
  • 1.2.3 Contacting OMG
• 1.3 The CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL)
  • 1.3.1 What is IDL?
  • 1.3.2 How is IDL Created?
  • 1.3.3 What does IDL look like?
  • 1.3.4 How is IDL Used?
• 1.4 CORBA AND COBOL
• 1.5 MERANT CORBA Support
• 1.6 CORBA Implementations Supported by MERANT