Index: Requirements
Problems Companies
Platforms Languages
Software Research
- DOE -- Distributed Objects Everywhere. Should have been named Distributed
Object Practically Everywhere.
- DOE Lite
- Small stripped down version of DOE that actually worked.
- Designed by Arthur van Hoff, before he started working on Java.
- Java CORBA is called NEO.
- OpenDoc is a component architecture compatible
with CORBA, that runs on MacOS and OS/2, but will
Unix vendors ever adopt it? They've been trying to get something together
called Fresco written in C++ based on Marc Linton's Interviews toolkit,
as well as NeXT Step renamed Open Step.
- OLE with COM is the
major competitor of CORBA.
- Orbix is a good CORBA implementation
- Well thought of product (one of the only useful CORBA implementations)
- Neuron Data System implements CORBA, among
other things.
- Galaxy also implements CORBA, among other
things.