Bonobo - CORBA - ORBit

CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is an emerging open distributed object computing infrastructure being standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG).


CORBA is:

• a public standard.
• well specified.
• already implemented by multiple Free Object Request Brokers (ORB).
• not tied to any particular manufacture.

Bonobo chose OMG's CORBA standard. 


ORB is an Object Request Broker.  It is a shared library, a popwerful Application Programming Interface (API).  It can be viewed as a black box, which handles method invocation on remote objects.


GNOME requirements for ORB:

• ORB must be small.
• ORB must be efficient as it is a core component.
• ORB must support multiple languages.

ORBit is RedHat implementation of CORBA compliant ORB.