Backgrounder for Zope guru's who don't yet know CORBA.

• Doug Schmidt's overview of CORBA.
  • Doug's DOC group at WUSTL/UCI is responsible for TAO, an open-source ORB which they use for, among other things, onboard weapons control in fighter aircraft. *Note: STX doesn't like the ~ in this URL -- I have submitted a patch to the Collector.*

Overviews

COSNaming

"white pages" service, searching for CORBA objects in a naming hierarchy / graph.

COSTrading

"yellow pages" service, searching for CORBA objects matching certain criteria.

COSEvents/COSNotification

"event publishing" services, decoupling publishers from subscribers

• COSNotification derives from and eventually obsolets COSEvents, allowing for filtering of events.

Key Services