[392] in java-interest
re: CORBA and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Thompson)
Mon Jun 19 15:58:07 1995
From: Tim Thompson <tjt@cmprime.att.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:11:04 -0400
Original-From: Tim Thompson <cmprime!tjt>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
>> Moreover, there are project to provide a Corba based environment for the WWW.
>> Is there any plan to interface Java with Corba ?
>
> Again, folks have been looking at this as well. In general the difference
> between the CORBA stuff and the Java stuff is that the distributed objects
> folks operate on a model of an object, portions of which are in a disjoint
> address space.
Couldn't Java be used as a portable way of implementing CORBA objects?
My understanding is that CORBA standardizes the object interface (and
ways of finding objects), but allows the implementation of the object to
be in any language (i.e. C++). This means that although you can talk to
an object anywhere, you can't take the implementation of that object and
move it (either to a different machine under your own control, or from "your"
machine to the "end users" machine). If you've made only a portable interface,
it seems like you've only accomplished half the job, and it seems like
Java would be the perfect vehicle to make portable CORBA objects.
Does this make sense? Is anyone thinking along these lines?
...Tim Thompson...tjthompson@attmail.com...
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